Softment

Automation & Integrations

Webhook & Event Automation

We build reliable webhook and event automation systems: clean event schemas, delivery retries, idempotency, and monitoring. This is the backbone for automation tools, partner integrations, and AI-triggered workflows.

TimelineTypical: 2–5 weeks (scope-dependent)
Starting at$1.2k
Security-first AI integrations • Evals + logging + guardrails included

Overview

What this service is

This service covers designing and implementing event-driven architecture and webhook delivery for reliable integrations.

We build for real-world conditions: retries, dedupe, backoff, dead-letter queues, and replay tooling for debugging.

When relevant, we add AI-triggered routing and extraction steps with measurable quality and safe fallbacks.

Standard

AI delivery standard

Quality and safety practices we ship with AI builds so the system stays measurable, maintainable, and production-ready.

Logging + tracing

Conversation and tool traces with request IDs, error visibility, and debug-friendly runbooks.

Guardrails + safety

Tool allowlists, PII-safe patterns, refusal behavior, and escalation routes for edge cases.

Evals + regression tests

Golden queries, scorecards, and regression checks so quality improves over time instead of drifting.

Cost + latency controls

Caching, prompt discipline, retrieval tuning, and routing so your app stays fast and predictable at scale.

Documentation + handoff

Architecture notes, environment setup, and next-step roadmap so your team can iterate safely after launch.

Security-first integration

Secrets isolation, role-based access, audit-friendly actions, and minimal data retention by design.

Benefits

What you get

Prevent silent failures with retry and DLQ patterns

Avoid duplicates with idempotency and dedupe rules

Improve integration stability for partners and customers

Speed up debugging with replay tools and logs

Scale event volume safely with queues and backpressure

Enable AI workflows on top of stable events

Features

What we deliver

Event schema + versioning

Define events with stable payloads, naming conventions, and a strategy for backward-compatible changes.

Webhook delivery engine

Reliable delivery with retries, backoff, and dead-letter handling so transient failures don’t cause data loss.

Idempotency + dedupe

Idempotency keys and dedupe logic to prevent double-processing across retries and replays.

Replay and audit tooling

Re-send events safely and audit event history for support and debugging workflows.

Monitoring + alerting

Dashboards and alerts for delivery failures, latency, and unusual volumes.

AI routing hooks (optional)

Add AI steps for classification/routing/extraction with cost controls and eval coverage.

Process

How we work

1
2–4 days

Discovery

Event inventory and reliability requirements.

2
4–8 days

Design

Schemas, delivery patterns, and security posture.

3
2–4 weeks

Build

Webhook engine, queues, and tooling.

4
3–7 days

QA

Failure simulation and replay tests.

5
2–4 days

Launch

Monitoring, alerts, and runbooks.

Tech Stack

Technologies we use

Core

WebhooksQueues + retriesIdempotency keysPostgreSQL

Tools

RedisNode.jsAPI integrationsSentry / monitoring

Services

Rate limitingSignature validation

Use Cases

Who this is for

SaaS event-driven integrations

Customer and partner integrations that rely on stable events and reliable delivery.

Billing workflows

Subscription and payment events requiring strict idempotency and high reliability.

Automation tool enablement

Zapier/Make/n8n-ready event infrastructure for customer workflows.

Internal ops automation

Event-driven task routing and approvals with audit trails and retry safety.

AI-assisted routing

Use AI to classify and route events while keeping deterministic fallbacks and measurable quality.

AI Case Examples

Micro case studies (anonymous)

A few safe examples of outcomes we build for real operations—no client names, just results.

Secure Mobile Solution in Australian Defence Ecosystem

Problem: Secure data workflows were required in a regulated environment with strict access controls.

Solution: Hardened architecture with strict auth, encrypted storage, and audit-friendly engineering patterns.

Outcome: Deployed securely within a regulated ecosystem with clear handoff and operational guidance.

AI Knowledge Base Across 2,000+ Pages

Problem: Teams needed fast answers across long PDFs, but search was slow and results were inconsistent.

Solution: RAG with hybrid retrieval and reranking, plus grounded answers and safer fallback behavior.

Outcome: Reliable answers with <10s response times and measurable improvements on real queries.

Ops Automation with AI + n8n

Problem: Manual approvals and CRM syncing created delays and data inconsistencies across tools.

Solution: Event-driven automation with validation gates and AI-assisted classification where it improved routing.

Outcome: Reduced manual workload significantly with more reliable workflows and operator visibility.

Decision Guides

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

Webhooks and events often retry. Idempotency prevents duplicates when the same event is delivered more than once.

Yes. Replay tools are essential for debugging and support, and we build them with safe controls.

We use signatures, token auth, rate limits, and strict validation of payloads and endpoints.

Yes. Queues and backpressure patterns allow safe scaling under burst traffic and high event volumes.

Yes. We can add AI for classification/extraction with cost controls and quality testing.

Yes. Monitoring and alerting are part of delivery for reliable event systems.

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