Backend Development for AI — See, Govern, Trust | Xano
Making AI-built software trustworthy
Professional backend development for the AI era—understand, govern, and run everything AI builds.
Manage & govern Set business rules, enforce them automatically.
Build Define your app & infra in TypeScript
Run & test Prove your processes with workflow tests
Deploy Ship with versions and instant rollback
Observe See everything running, as it runs
Trusted by enterprises building business-critical workflows around the globe.
The full AI-SDLC, on a stack you recognize.
Kubernetes Postgres Redis Docker microservices GitHub & GitLab CLI autogenerated OpenAPI docs
Build with AI. Trust it at every stage.
The AI-SDLC starts with governance.
Before anyone builds, the deterministic harness mandates how an application gets built. Set once by your team, inherited by every build—engineers and agents alike.
AI skills
Tests
Dependencies
Workspace ruleset
Auth & environments
Data residency
Any agent can build. The harness decides what passes.
Work the way your team already works—the harness holds either way. Engineers and agents build the same way, against the same rules.
Build
With any agent (Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT—or your own) via the Xano MCP, in code, or visually. Connect any front end, or host static files on Xano.
Run & test
Verify whole business workflows, function by function, with one CLI command or in the UI
Approve
Review the verified backend object in an ephemeral environment and promote it.
From your IDE, start to shipped:
$claude mcp add xano -- npx -y @xano/developer-mcp # your agent, loaded with Xano docs and live validation
$xano workspace pull -d ./my-app # your backend, on disk, as files
"Add a signup endpoint that emails a welcome message" # the agent writes it
$xano sandbox push -d ./my-app --review # push to your sandbox, open the review diff
$xano sandbox workflow_test run_all # run the suite against the sandbox
$xano workspace push -d ./my-app # promote: preview, confirm, live
See what was built, even when AI built it.
The Xano workspace is the live system, not documentation that drifts: the logic, the data, and the APIs, laid out visually.
Your cloud or ours. Any region. Control every release.
Every release is an immutable, version-controlled deploy object your team stages, inspects and promotes.
See it running. Pinpoint what fails.
Request history, tracing, performance insights, built in. And, when something breaks, Xano shows you the exact function where it happened.
Frontend-agnostic by design.
Connect any front end (React, Next.js, mobile, or a site an agent built) or host static files on Xano. Your stack stays yours.
Business-critical systems in production, not prototypes.
100 transactions/sec
100K daily active users
Full migration in 20 mo.
Rebuilt 4–5× faster
$1M+ saved annually
30+ countries
€200K/month through Xano (from 2023)
Enterprise-grade by default.
SSO with Google, GitHub, and Microsoft Entra ID (SAML). Isolated tenants per client or region. Policy, review gates, and audit trails built in. Your cloud or ours.
“Xano provides that stability— you can deploy and not worry about the infrastructure.”
VP of Engineering at Deriv
Built something that's becoming real?
You built it with AI. It works. Now someone else needs to touch it: a teammate, a client, IT. Xano is where AI-built projects grow up.