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Vertical templates
Vertical templates are domain-specific generation modes that add industry-standard patterns to your wrapper automatically -- without you having to describe them.
When you select a vertical on the Generate page, StateAnchor applies a set of domain-specific rules to the generation. For example, the FinTech vertical automatically uses string amounts instead of floats, adds idempotency key helpers, and follows PCI-DSS logging guidelines -- even if you didn't mention any of that in your description.
Verticals are especially useful when working with regulated industries where getting the patterns wrong has real consequences.
FinTech
Financial APIs -- payments, banking, crypto, lending
What this vertical adds
- Decimal precision handling (uses string amounts, never floats)
- Idempotency key helpers on mutation endpoints
- Retry logic with exponential backoff for transient errors
- PCI-DSS aware: no plaintext card data in logs or error messages
- Audit-ready error codes matched to HTTP status
- Webhook signature verification helper
Works well with
Stripe, Plaid, Brex, Coinbase, Dwolla
HealthTech
Healthcare and clinical APIs -- EHR, FHIR, telehealth
What this vertical adds
- PHI data minimization: no patient data in error messages or logs
- HIPAA-safe logging patterns with field redaction
- SMART on FHIR OAuth2 auth flow helpers
- FHIR R4 resource type support
- Pagination helpers for large clinical datasets
- Rate limit handling for high-availability clinical systems
Works well with
Epic, Athenahealth, Health Gorilla, Veradigm
eCommerce
Commerce APIs -- orders, inventory, fulfillment
What this vertical adds
- Webhook signature verification (HMAC-SHA256)
- Cart and order state machine helpers
- Cursor and page-based pagination helpers
- Inventory availability checks with optimistic locking
- Multi-currency amount handling
- Fulfillment status event helpers
Works well with
Shopify, WooCommerce, BigCommerce, Square
AI / ML
AI inference, model, and vector APIs
What this vertical adds
- Streaming response support (SSE / chunked transfer)
- Token counting estimates before requests
- Automatic rate limit queuing with configurable concurrency
- Inference timeout handling with graceful cancellation
- Model version pinning helpers
- Embedding batch helpers
Works well with
OpenAI, Anthropic, Replicate, Pinecone
DevTools
Developer tooling APIs -- project management, CI/CD, observability
What this vertical adds
- Cursor and link-header pagination helpers
- OAuth2 refresh token handling with automatic renewal
- GraphQL query builder helpers (where applicable)
- Webhook event type-safe handlers
- Batch operation helpers
- Rate limit headers parsed and exposed
Works well with
GitHub, Linear, Jira, PagerDuty, Datadog
When to use a vertical vs. General mode
Use General mode when your API doesn't fit a vertical, or when you want the simplest possible wrapper without domain-specific patterns.
Use a vertical when:
- You're working in a regulated industry (finance, healthcare)
- You know the API you're wrapping fits the domain
- You want best-practice patterns without describing them yourself
- Your team has compliance or audit requirements