The Best Way to Get Your API Project Approved Right Now Is to Call It AI

I said this out loud in a recent conversation with Nordic APIs and I keep coming back to it, because it is the most honest description of how enterprise budgets actually move in 2026: the best way to get your API project approved right now is to disguise it as an AI project. The work you could not get funded eighteen months ago–cleaning up your API design, documenting your operations, standing up a proper catalog, retiring the six half-broken integrations nobody wants to own–sails through the moment you staple the word “agent” to the top of the deck. Nobody is buying APIs.