request → 200 OK { "schema": "v2" } payload.intent retry_after: 30s trace_id: 8f2c

Software that builds layers of meaning between systems.

Two systems can exchange a perfect payload and still misunderstand each other completely. Semiostrata builds the interpretive layer — the part that turns traffic into meaning, so the software around it can actually understand what's happening.

semio·stratasemio, from σημειωτικός (semeiotikos): of signs, of significance, how meaning is made. strata, from Latin stratum: layers, laid one upon another. Semiostrata: the layers where meaning is made.

What we believe

Systems don't fail loudly. They fail in translation.

Most outages aren't crashes — they're two systems that technically succeeded and substantively misunderstood each other. A field renamed upstream. An assumption that held until it didn't. A response that's valid JSON and the wrong answer. The gap between systems isn't a wire protocol problem. It's a meaning problem.

01 — THE PROBLEM
Software talks to software constantly, but very little of that conversation is ever understood — only logged, parsed, and forgotten.
02 — THE APPROACH
We build tools that sit at the seams between systems and make the meaning of an exchange visible, not just its shape.
Products
Wiretap

See what your APIs are actually saying to each other — not just the status code they returned, but the intent, the drift, and the moment a contract quietly stopped meaning what everyone assumed it meant.

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