diff --git a/fastly_compute/exceptions.py b/fastly_compute/exceptions.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..dc829a1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/fastly_compute/exceptions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+"""Top-level exceptions emitted by the Fastly API"""
+
+from collections.abc import Callable, Mapping
+from enum import Enum
+from functools import wraps
+from typing import Any
+
+from wit_world.imports.types import Err
+
+
+class FastlyError(Exception):
+    """Abstract base class for all errors raised by Fastly APIs
+
+    This allows catching all errors emanating from Fastly APIs at once.
+    """
+
+
+class UnexpectedFastlyError(FastlyError):
+    """An error arising from a Fastly API but of an unanticipated kind, such
+    that we merely package up the low-level error and send it along.
+
+    Any of these encountered in the wild means we neglected to keep our Python
+    wrappers up to date with the WIT.
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, error_value: object):
+        """Construct.
+
+        :arg error_value: The ``value`` attr of the raised ``Err``
+        """
+        self.value = error_value
+
+
+# TODO: Move to somewhere more private once it becomes clear where.
+def remap_wit_errors(
+    idiomatic_exceptions: Mapping[Any, type[FastlyError]] | None = None,
+) -> Callable:
+    """Raise more idiomatic exceptions from a function that returns a WIT ``result``.
+
+    A ``result``s error case is always wrapped in a generic ``Err`` exception by
+    componentize-py. Convert that to a more descriptive exception that can be
+    selectively caught.
+
+    :arg idiomatic_exceptions: A map of the types of WIT-level ``Err.value``s to
+        more informative exception classes. These classes receive the
+        ``Err.value`` as a constructor argument. If the value's type is not
+        found in the map, wrap it in an ``UnexpectedFastlyError``.
+
+        Enum members may also be used as mapping keys. Exceptions raised based
+        on these receive no constructor arguments, since the values of enum
+        members are generated and meaningless.
+
+    Goals: Be idiomatic. Be reasonably efficient. Be readable as documentation.
+    In that order.
+
+    """
+    # Someday, if we need more flexibility than class-by-class mapping, we can
+    # take a fallback callable that can do further thinking. Also, only the type
+    # signature keeps you from passing along an arbitrary callable that can
+    # emit, say, different exception classes for even and odd ints.
+    if idiomatic_exceptions is None:
+        idiomatic_exceptions = {}
+
+    def decorator(func: Callable) -> Callable:
+        @wraps(func)
+        def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+            try:
+                return func(*args, **kwargs)
+            except Err as e:
+                error_value = e.value
+
+                # Look up ordinary instances by class but enum fields by value so
+                # we can easily give each enum member its own exception class:
+                if isinstance(error_value, Enum):
+                    key = error_value
+                    exc_args = ()
+                else:
+                    key = type(error_value)
+                    exc_args = (error_value,)
+                idiomatic_exception = idiomatic_exceptions.get(
+                    key, UnexpectedFastlyError
+                )
+                raise idiomatic_exception(*exc_args) from e
+
+        return wrapper
+
+    return decorator
diff --git a/pyproject.toml b/pyproject.toml
index c68dac0..0e0d248 100644
--- a/pyproject.toml
+++ b/pyproject.toml
@@ -48,6 +48,8 @@ select = [
 ignore = [
     "E501",  # line too long, handled by formatter
     "UP031",  # % string formatting, minimally disruptive for stdlib-based HTML templating
+    "D415",  # Don't require punctuation at the end of a docstring summary: sometimes they are noun phrases, not sentences.
+    "D205",  # This spuriously complains about line-wrapped single-sentence docstring summaries. Sometimes 80 chars isn't enough.
 ]
 
 [tool.ruff.format]
diff --git a/tests/test_nice_exceptions.py b/tests/test_nice_exceptions.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3cae55b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_nice_exceptions.py
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+"""Show (and test) some motivating examples of how the ``remap_wit_errors``
+decorator makes WIT's ``result``-driven errors more Pythonic."""
+
+import sys
+from pathlib import Path
+
+from pytest import raises
+
+# Bring in stubs for local testing:
+sys.path.append(str(Path(__file__).parent.parent / "stubs"))
+
+from wit_world.imports.types import Error_BufferLen, OpenError
+from wit_world.types import Err
+
+from fastly_compute.exceptions import (
+    FastlyError,
+    UnexpectedFastlyError,
+    remap_wit_errors,
+)
+
+
+class BufferTooShortError(FastlyError):
+    # A "nice" version of a WIT exception takes the WIT error as the sole arg of
+    # its constructor. While it would make the exception class more
+    # constructable by customer code if we took, for example, simply an int here
+    # and added a from_wit_error() class method, this would complicate the
+    # calling contract of remap_wit_errors() for "escape-hatch" callables which
+    # conditionally choose exception mappings. It remains to be seen if we ever
+    # need those.
+    def __init__(self, wit_error: Error_BufferLen):
+        self.length = wit_error.value
+
+    # Freed of the generated skeletal dataclasses, we can add niceties like good
+    # error messages.
+    def __str__(self):
+        return f"Buffer was too short to hold the result. At least {self.length} is needed."
+
+
+class NegativeHeightError(FastlyError):
+    def __init__(self, height: int):
+        self.height = height
+
+
+def test_primitive():
+    """Show that a primitive type can be mapped to a meaningful exception."""
+
+    @remap_wit_errors({int: NegativeHeightError})
+    def raise_int() -> Err:
+        """Raise a primitive value, which is expected and gets wrapped in a descriptive exception."""
+        raise Err(value=-3)
+
+    try:
+        raise_int()
+    except NegativeHeightError as e:
+        assert e.height == -3
+
+
+def test_unexpected():
+    """For unexpected error types, an UnexpectedFastlyError should be raised.
+
+    This preserves the value of the original error and the ability for customers
+    to catch all Fastly API errors by catching FastlyError. It also keeps them
+    insulated from componentize-py's Err class, lest we move away from it
+    someday.
+    """
+
+    @remap_wit_errors()
+    def raise_int_by_surprise() -> Err:
+        """Raise a primitive value, which is a type we didn't expect."""
+        raise Err(value=-3)
+
+    try:
+        raise_int_by_surprise()
+    except UnexpectedFastlyError as e:
+        assert e.value == -3
+
+
+def test_variant():
+    """Show how a WIT variant case can be concisely mapped into a more idiomatic exception."""
+
+    @remap_wit_errors({Error_BufferLen: BufferTooShortError})
+    def raise_variant() -> Err:
+        """Raise an Err whose value is a case of our generic ``error`` variant."""
+        raise Err(value=Error_BufferLen(64))
+
+    try:
+        raise_variant()
+    except BufferTooShortError as e:
+        assert e.length == 64
+
+
+def test_enum():
+    """Show how we can also map individual enum cases to exception classes."""
+
+    class InvalidSyntaxError(FastlyError):
+        pass
+
+    class NotFoundError(FastlyError):
+        pass
+
+    enum_map = {
+        OpenError.INVALID_SYNTAX: InvalidSyntaxError,
+        OpenError.NOT_FOUND: NotFoundError,
+    }
+
+    @remap_wit_errors(enum_map)
+    def raise_one_enum() -> Err:
+        raise Err(value=OpenError.INVALID_SYNTAX)
+
+    @remap_wit_errors(enum_map)
+    def raise_other_enum() -> Err:
+        raise Err(value=OpenError.NOT_FOUND)
+
+    try:
+        raise_one_enum()
+    except InvalidSyntaxError as e:
+        assert len(e.args) == 0, (
+            "Exceptions raised based on enum members should receive no constructor args."
+        )
+
+    with raises(NotFoundError):
+        raise_other_enum()