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.

AI builds software. Xano makes it trustworthy.