Game aggregation looks like a simple business from the outside. Sign studios, sign operators, sit in the middle, take a cut. The technical reality is the opposite. An aggregator is one of the most demanding builds in iGaming because every studio integrates differently, every operator wants something custom, and every regulator wants a different report — and you are the layer that has to make all of it look uniform.
What aggregators are actually building
At the core, an aggregator is three things. First, a normalisation layer that turns dozens of incompatible studio APIs — REST, SOAP, websockets, proprietary message formats, three different versions of the same RGS — into one consistent integration surface. Second, an operator-facing SDK that lets a casino plug in once and get every studio you have signed. Third, a financial backbone that handles bet/win flows, revenue share, reconciliation, and the kind of audit trail that survives a regulator asking for the last six months of every transaction in a specific jurisdiction.
The scaling problem
A new aggregator with five studios and ten operators looks fine on a single Postgres and a few app servers. The same aggregator with eighty studios and two hundred operators is a different system. Bet/win volume is non-linear — a single Champions League weekend, a single new megaways title launch, a single CRM blast from a tier-one operator can multiply your peak load by an order of magnitude in an hour. Aggregators that did not architect for this either drop transactions, lag settlement, or fall over and become the story of why three operators are not paying their players.
What Sudonex builds
We build aggregator platforms from the message bus up. Our work usually covers a casino game aggregator API layer that handles studio onboarding, normalisation, session management and RGS variability; an operator-facing single SDK; a bet/win and revenue-share engine with full reconciliation; jurisdictional routing so a studio that is not certified in Ontario does not show up in an Ontario lobby; and a reporting pipeline that produces the feeds operators and regulators ask for without a manual export step.
For aggregators that also publish their own content, we ship slot game development end-to-end, including math design, certification and integration into your own RGS. For aggregators stitching in multiple third-party RGSs, we handle the integration grunt work through iGaming API integration.
Revenue share is harder than it looks
Operators want one revenue share rate per studio. Studios want different rates per operator, sometimes per game, sometimes per jurisdiction, sometimes with promotional carve-outs. Marketing campaigns introduce free spin reconciliations that have to be billed differently from real-money play. New game launches come with revenue boosts that expire on a date. Every one of these is a billing rule, and a billing engine that cannot represent them ends up represented by spreadsheets and disputes. We build billing engines that represent the contracts, not the simplifications.
Certification and compliance
An aggregator inherits the certification posture of every studio it carries, in every jurisdiction it operates. That means tracking which RNG certificates are current, which markets each game is approved in, which RTP variants are live where, and which studios have just had a recall. Our licensing and compliance work for aggregators turns that into a system instead of a wiki.
FAQ
Do you build RGSs? Yes. An aggregator that owns the RGS for its first-party content has more leverage and better margins than one that does not.
How many studios can you onboard in parallel? Studio onboarding is rate-limited by the studios, not by us. Two to four parallel integrations is realistic with a properly normalised intake.
Can you migrate us off our current platform? Yes. Most aggregator engagements with us start as migrations from a platform that is no longer scaling.
Do you white-label? No. We build for you, on your stack.
What about reporting? Operator-facing dashboards, studio-facing settlement reports, regulator-facing transactional feeds. All three from one source of truth.
If you are running or building an aggregator and the platform is starting to creak, Sudonex is built for exactly this work.