In the era of digital transformation, composability—leveraging modular components—has emerged as a pivotal innovation. Many enterprises are adopting this architecture to develop sophisticated systems integrated with their technology stacks. However, implementing these systems can be challenging due to issues like data silos and fragmented architectures.
Texas-based startup Fastn, founded by former Amazon engineering leader Khalid Muaydh, has announced $2.6 million in seed funding to tackle these challenges and create an AI-driven pathway for building high-performing composable applications.
Fastn has introduced a no-code/low-code platform that utilizes AI agents, automation, and a drag-and-drop interface. This design simplifies the creation, integration, and orchestration of modular components necessary for app development, including APIs that enable real-time access to critical data dispersed across silos.
“Our unique approach emphasizes composability, facilitating the integration of diverse systems and data sources. This strategy accelerates development, reduces costs, and boosts agility, reliability, and scalability for enterprise solutions,” Muaydh stated.
Building Unified Enterprise-Grade APIs
Muaydh established Fastn in 2023 after encountering various bottlenecks while developing complex systems for prior employers. He identified the primary challenge as traditional architectures requiring developers to manually manage multiple custom APIs and their integrations, leading to slow, complex, and error-prone coding processes.
Fastn addresses this issue by enabling users to create unified enterprise-grade APIs using natural language prompts. By describing their app’s functionality, users can generate a functional API—the essential building block of their application—in just seconds.
“With our AI Agent for APIs, users can specify the type of API they need—whether for reading or writing information—and the system will automatically generate a production-ready, enterprise-grade API. Users can confirm the API’s specifications or customize it further. Our AI Agent for connectors also allows users to create integrations for systems that aren’t pre-integrated with Fastn, simplifying custom connection development,” Muaydh explained.
Once the API is created, users can effortlessly connect it to their data sources—be it databases, spreadsheets, or other applications—to retrieve information almost instantaneously. Fastn claims to deliver data in sub-milliseconds, a crucial feature for applications like e-commerce product pages.
However, the process doesn’t stop there.
After establishing the data connection, Fastn enables users to define the app’s logic using either pre-built or custom components for tasks such as data transformation, calculations, or decision-making. Additionally, it offers real-time monitoring of application performance, providing visibility into metrics like p50, p90, and p99 latency, and tracking data flows across all connections.
“If something isn’t functioning properly, you can swiftly identify and resolve the issue. When it’s time to launch, deploying your app across different environments requires just a few clicks. To ensure reliability, every generated API or connector can be tested by the user to meet high enterprise-grade performance standards, with users able to make further modifications without writing any code,” Muaydh noted.
Fastn: Integrating Monitoring and Performance
Adoption by Leading Enterprises
Though Fastn is still in its early stages with its $2.6 million funding, its composable application-building approach is garnering attention. Since its Product Hunt launch in July 2024, the platform has attracted over 450 users for workplace testing and has recently onboarded HP as its first enterprise customer.
“HP leverages Fastn to seamlessly integrate its applications with customers’ environments, fully embracing composable architecture. For example, when HP signs on a customer using a different support system, Fastn facilitates the automatic mapping and orchestration of data between HP’s systems and the customer’s support system—regardless of format or environment. This real-time connection dismantles data silos and eliminates the need for extensive custom development, enabling HP to deliver value to their customers in minutes rather than months,” Muaydh elaborated.
He added that there are a dozen mid-size and enterprise customers in the pipeline for this year.
As the integration and orchestration market expands, it will be intriguing to observe how Fastn differentiates itself from established and heavily funded competitors like Mulesoft and Snaplogic.
According to Mordor Intelligence, the system integration market is projected to grow from $485.41 billion in 2024 to $778.92 billion by 2029, reflecting a growth rate of nearly 10%.
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