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Serve every developer audience without forking the contract.

Public customers, named partners, and internal product teams need different access and onboarding. They should not receive three manually synchronized versions of the API. Doctorine keeps the contract-derived surfaces coherent while your existing gateway, identity, and service systems retain their proper responsibilities.

Choose the delivery boundary

The audience changes access and guidance—not contract truth

Start with who must discover the API, how they receive credentials, and what evidence they need to reach a correct first request. Then select the solution path below. Teams serving more than one audience can publish distinct experiences from the same reviewed operation model.

  • External discovery

    Public APIs

    Publish a crawlable onboarding path, contract-derived reference, verified client artifacts, and machine-readable context for developers evaluating or integrating your API.

    Plan public API delivery

  • Controlled access

    Partner APIs

    Give named partners a private integration surface while keeping the portal, SDKs, and release identity connected to the accepted OpenAPI contract.

    Plan partner API delivery

  • Engineering enablement

    Internal APIs

    Help product and platform teams consume private APIs without asking Doctorine to replace the service catalog, gateway, repository, or runtime observability stack.

    Plan internal API delivery

Audience decision guide

Choose by how the API is distributed, not by your company label

A SaaS company can operate all three models at once. Its billing API may be public, its reseller API limited to approved partners, and its inventory service available only to product teams. Classify each API by who may discover its integration material, who grants access, and who owns the first successful workflow. That produces a clearer rollout than calling the entire company an API company or an internal-platform company.

How to choose a Doctorine solution by developer audience and delivery model
Developer audience Discovery model Access boundary Useful first release
Public customers Open discovery and evaluation before a commercial relationship exists. Public portal; credentials and API authorization stay in the product and gateway stack. One revenue-linked workflow with a complete quickstart, reference path, and supported client.
Named partners Known organizations receive integration material through a controlled relationship. Private portal delivery plus a separate identity, entitlement, credential, and API authorization design. One partner integration package with test-environment steps, escalation, and change notice ownership.
Internal teams Engineers find an API through a catalog, repository, platform workflow, or direct dependency. Private consumption surface linked from the existing catalog; runtime policy remains with the gateway. One real producer-consumer dependency with an owner on both sides and an observable integration task.

One contract can serve more than one audience

Reuse the accepted operation model, then vary authored guidance, visibility, credentials, examples, support routes, and release communication. Do not expose private operations merely because another surface is public. Each published experience still needs its own review.

Access requirements can change the best starting point

Doctorine gates private portal bytes, but it does not currently market SAML, SCIM, or BYOK. Teams that require those controls before any partner or employee can view documentation should treat identity readiness as a rollout dependency, not assume the portal replaces it.

Shared release system

Three requirements survive every audience change

  1. One accepted contract

    Compile the reviewed OpenAPI input into one canonical graph before portal, SDK, example, or agent outputs diverge.

  2. Audience-specific guidance

    Keep the reference consistent while changing prerequisites, credentials, workflows, support paths, and visibility for the developers being served.

  3. Verified release evidence

    Connect generated artifacts and the activated portal to an identifiable build so reviewers can inspect what shipped and operators can roll it back.

Internal does not mean undocumented; public does not mean ungoverned

The same adoption problems appear on both sides of a company boundary: unclear authentication, stale examples, mismatched clients, and changes that reach the service before they reach its consumers. Audience labels influence controls and measurement, but they do not remove the need for a coherent developer release.

Start with the audience and one real API.

Import an OpenAPI description, inspect the generated outputs, and choose the access model that matches the developers you serve.

Import an OpenAPI spec