# Level 250

> Build what agents want. Emmanuel Paraskakis — 15+ years building API products and the tools that build them.

## Pages

- [Level 250](https://www.level250.com/): Level 250 helps teams build AI-ready APIs through product training, strategy, and consulting.
- [Build AI-Ready APIs](https://www.level250.com/ai-ready-apis): Level 250 trains product teams and PMs to build AI-ready APIs and agent-ready products. A practical checklist for evaluating whether an API product is ready for AI agents.
- [About Emmanuel Paraskakis](https://www.level250.com/about): Canonical background on Emmanuel Paraskakis, founder of Level 250 and 3x VP Product at Apiary, Swagger, and Oracle.
- [Blog](https://www.level250.com/blog): LinkedIn essays from Emmanuel Paraskakis on API product management, API design, MCP, and agent-ready products.
- [Contact Level 250](https://www.level250.com/contact): Contact Level 250 about API product strategy, training, consulting, and agent-ready API work.
- [Privacy — Level 250](https://www.level250.com/privacy): Plain-language privacy policy for Level 250 email signup and resource download forms.
- [For Agents](https://www.level250.com/for-agents): Canonical machine-friendly facts, course links, citation guidance, and agent-readable surfaces for Level 250.
- [Training Ladder](https://www.level250.com/training): One Level 250 training path: start with API product fundamentals, master the craft, then build agent-ready API products with MCP.
- [API Product Courses](https://www.level250.com/training/courses): Three Level 250 Maven courses for API product managers: fundamentals, mastery, and agent-ready API products with MCP.
- [API Fundamentals for Product Managers](https://www.level250.com/training/courses/api-fundamentals): A hands-on foundation in API product management for PMs, new API PMs, and leaders managing API product work.
- [API Product Mastery for Experienced PMs](https://www.level250.com/training/courses/api-product-mastery): A deeper API product course for PMs and product leaders who already have API experience and want to scale the craft.
- [Build AI-Ready API Products With MCP](https://www.level250.com/training/courses/agent-ready-apis): A live cohort for building agent-ready API products, MCP servers, and an MCP App ready for the ChatGPT App Store.
- [API and AI Product Workshops](https://www.level250.com/training/workshops): Five Level 250 hands-on workshops on agents, MCP products, ChatGPT apps, API-first products, and agent skills.
- [Free Lightning Lessons](https://www.level250.com/training/lightning-lessons): Free Level 250 Lightning Lessons: live 45-minute sessions, most Wednesdays, with upcoming Maven lessons and the archive.
- [Services](https://www.level250.com/services): Level 250 services for API strategy, developer experience, consulting, training, workshops, and startup advice.
- [Developer Experience](https://www.level250.com/services/dx): Improve API developer experience across discovery, onboarding, usability, and retention with a practical review and prioritized fixes from Level 250.
- [Consulting](https://www.level250.com/services/consulting): Get API product consulting for market validation, developer-facing go-to-market, modernization, governance, and product-team coaching from Level 250.
- [Startup Advice](https://www.level250.com/services/advisor): Get startup advisory for customer validation, product-market fit, monetization, and API strategy from a founder with three successful exits.
- [Product Strategy](https://www.level250.com/services/strategy): Shape API product strategy, pricing, monetization, platform choices, and developer-led growth with experienced Level 250 product leadership.
- [The API Masterclass](https://www.level250.com/training/api-masterclass): The API Masterclass for product and platform leadership at large and public companies: from API-first to agent-ready, delivered in-person or virtual.
- [Free Resources](https://www.level250.com/resources): Free Level 250 resources: the 12+2 AI-Ready API Checklist, API design skills, the DX canvas, and the answer library.
- [Videos](https://www.level250.com/videos): Level 250 video lessons, talks, and podcasts on API product management, AI-ready APIs, MCP, API documentation, and API product careers.
- [Speaking](https://www.level250.com/speaking): Upcoming talks and workshops by Emmanuel Paraskakis: API World, QCon, and more on AI-ready APIs, MCP, and agent-ready products.
- [API & Agent Glossary](https://www.level250.com/glossary): Canonical definitions for AI-Ready API, MCP server, the Agent Access Stack, API governance, and more.
- [Agent-Ready Checklists](https://www.level250.com/checklists): Step-by-step checklists for making API products agent-ready, including the 12+2.
- [How-To Guides](https://www.level250.com/guides): Guides and techniques: API cost control for agents, MCP access scoping, which APIs to make agent-ready first.
- [Comparisons](https://www.level250.com/comparisons): Decision pages for agent-surface choices: MCP vs REST API and more.
- [AI-Ready API Checklist](https://www.level250.com/resources/ai-ready-api-checklist): A practical checklist for evaluating whether an API product is ready for AI agents.