In any growing business, there's a tipping point. The manual processes, spreadsheets, and ad-hoc workflows that once worked start to creak and groan under the weight of increased demand. Consistency falters, bottlenecks appear, and scaling becomes a painful, complex challenge. What if you could treat your business operations with the same rigor, scalability, and precision as your core software?
This is the central promise of service.do: to empower you to define any business capability as a robust, versioned software component. It's a paradigm shift known as Services-as-Software, and it's how you move from patching operational holes to building a scalable, automated, and agile business ecosystem.
This journey starts with a single step: defining your first service.
Every complex system begins with a single, well-defined component. Think about a common, critical business process: customer onboarding. It involves multiple steps—creating an account, setting up billing, sending a welcome email, and notifying the success team.
With service.do, you can encapsulate this entire workflow into a single, reusable service. This is the "Define" step in our Define. Deploy. Deliver. mantra. You formalize the inputs, outputs, and logic of a business process directly in code.
Here’s what a customer-onboarding service looks like:
import { Service, type Context } from '@do/sdk';
// Define the clear input and output schemas for your service
interface OnboardingInput {
name: string;
email: string;
plan: 'free' | 'pro' | 'enterprise';
}
interface OnboardingOutput {
customerId: string;
welcomeEmailSent: boolean;
status: 'complete' | 'failed';
}
// Create a new Service instance with your business logic
export default new Service<OnboardingInput, OnboardingOutput>({
name: 'customer-onboarding',
description: 'Onboards a new customer, creating an account and sending a welcome email.',
async run(input: OnboardingInput, context: Context): Promise<OnboardingOutput> {
console.log(`Starting onboarding for ${input.email} on plan ${input.plan}`);
// Your business logic lives here.
// In a real agentic workflow, you might call other services:
// const user = await agents.users.create({ ... });
// const email = await agents.notifications.send({ ... });
// const billing = await agents.billing.setup({ ... });
const customerId = `cust_${context.invocationId}`;
// Return a structured, predictable output
return {
customerId,
welcomeEmailSent: true,
status: 'complete',
};
},
});
By defining this process in code, you've instantly gained clarity, reusability, and testability. This isn't just a checklist in a document; it's a version-controlled, executable asset.
Once you have one service, the next logical step is to build others that work together. Your customer-onboarding service might need to interact with a process-payment service, a generate-invoice service, and a provision-account service.
This is where the power of an Agentic Workflow comes into play. With service.do, services are designed to orchestrate and call each other to complete complex tasks. This is the "Deploy" step. You're not just deploying isolated functions; you're deploying an interconnected web of capabilities.
Unlike traditional microservices that often require complex boilerplate and infrastructure management, .do services are built for business logic orchestration. You write the code that defines the workflow, and the service.do platform handles the rest—deployment, security, logging, and scaling—all in a completely serverless environment. You focus on the business steps, not the servers.
What happens when your company has dozens, or even hundreds, of these services?
You’ve reached the final stage: a full Business-as-Code ecosystem. Your organization's operations are no longer managed through disparate tools and manual handoffs. They are modeled as a comprehensive suite of interoperable API Services.
This ecosystem delivers transformative advantages:
This is the "Deliver" promise. You deliver consistent, reliable, and scalable business value because your operations are software.
It's the practice of encapsulating a specific business function or workflow—like 'process a payment' or 'generate a report'—into a self-contained, deployable software component. This service can then be versioned, scaled, and invoked via an API, just like any other piece of software.
While similar, .do Services are purpose-built for agentic workflows. They are designed to orchestrate other agents and services to complete complex business tasks. They are defined in simple code (Business-as-Code) and managed entirely by the .do platform, abstracting away infrastructure concerns.
You can model any business process. Examples include customer onboarding workflows, data enrichment pipelines, automated financial reporting, lead qualification systems, and content generation services. If you can describe it as a series of steps, you can build it as a service.
No. The .do platform is fully serverless. You simply define your service's logic in code, and we handle the deployment, scaling, security, and execution. You focus on the business value, not the infrastructure.
Scaling your business doesn't have to mean scaling your complexity. By moving from a single process to an interconnected ecosystem, you transform your operations from a business bottleneck into a powerful competitive advantage.
Ready to turn your business logic into scalable, on-demand software?
Visit service.do to define, deploy, and deliver your first service today.