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Getting a vendor-neutral assessment of a market
Vendors can claim the same features and benefits. Find out who ships what they say.
Analysts read websites and view demos. Vendors grade themselves. From the outside, a claim and a contract look identical. An independent read puts every provider in the market on a level playing field — each one scored on the same public rubric, calculated from what a machine can actually fetch: the OpenAPIs, the scopes, the security posture, the plans and rate limits, the agent surfaces. The result is one comparable distribution covering the leaders, the incumbents, and the long tail that usually goes unmeasured.
Checking whether a standard is really being shipped
Every vendor in the space says they support it. Find out how many publish a contract you can actually call.
Checking whether a standard is really being shipped
Every vendor in the space says they support it. Find out how many publish a contract you can actually call.
A coalition page makes adoption look settled. What nobody publishes is the number in between: how many of the organizations claiming the standard ship a contract you can download, price, and call. You get that ratio and the evidence under it — the specifications, the governance record of who staffs and who steers the work, and the machine-readable surface of every claimed implementer. It comes back consistently smaller than a coalition page suggests — which is exactly the number a body can use to show progress, and an implementer can use to see where it stands.
Checking whether a fund's book matches its thesis
A thesis is written; a portfolio is shipped. See what the book actually built.
Checking whether a fund's book matches its thesis
A thesis is written; a portfolio is shipped. See what the book actually built.
A fund's thesis is written; its portfolio is shipped. Every company in a book that publishes an API leaves machine-readable evidence of how seriously it takes the platform it raised on. You get the whole book scored, decomposed by practice area, read for whether an agent could actually use what these companies built, and benchmarked head to head against rival funds on identical terms. The thesis stops being something you take on trust and becomes something you can check — as useful to a rival fund or a founder as it is to the fund itself.
Removing the guesswork on what matters to an enterprise
Find out what systems they already run, who owns them, and what is going on — before making a first call.
Removing the guesswork on what matters to an enterprise
Find out what systems they already run, who owns them, and what is going on — before making a first call.
Anyone selling tech, or tech-related services, is usually guessing at three things: what is already installed, who owns it, and where the gaps are. The details are largely public — in job postings, press releases, blogs, and public APIs — just nobody has assembled them in one place. An Insights Bundle gives you hiring trends matched to every technology (the demand side) and the APIs the account ships (the supply side), so your team arrives knowing the installed stack, the org map, and the openings most likely to be real.
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Answer the first and the second narrows to what's already published — with the price attached, before you have to email anybody.
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Everything published, by product
128 reports in print. If you'd rather browse than choose, here they all are in one list. Every report is vendor-neutral, carries a version and an "as of" date, and ships as a PDF, an editable Word source and a machine-readable AI data bundle. Buy once and every future revision is included.
factory Trend Reports
The State of Spectral in API Pipelines
$500What 1,005 real public pipelines reveal about how teams actually govern their APIs — and the blueprint almost none of them have reached.
The State of Australian Banking APIs
$500What fifty Consumer Data Right banks actually publish, scored — and what it means for the operators who run them and the investors who back them.
The State of Market Data APIs
$500What the market data providers actually publish, scored — and where the durable value hides in a commoditizing feed.
The State of UK Banking APIs
$500What sixty UK banks and building societies actually publish, scored — from the CMA9 Open Banking mandate to the challengers, building societies, and private banks arou...
The Agentic Readiness of Venture
$1,500The twenty-five most important venture funds, ranked on one axis — whether their portfolios are ready for agents that act.
The State of US Banking APIs
$500What 113 US banks, credit unions, neobanks, and banking-rails providers actually publish, scored — the one open-finance market with no mandate, and the widest split in...
The State of Canadian Banking APIs
$500What 42 Canadian banks, credit unions, caisses, and fintechs actually publish, scored — the emptiest banking market measured, where the rails outrank the banks.
The State of US Payments APIs
$500What sixty-eight US payment companies actually publish, scored — the deepest, most agent-instrumented payments estate on earth, and the market with no mandate and no f...
The State of UK Payments APIs
$500What thirty-two UK payment companies actually publish, scored — the open-banking payment-initiation heartland, and the market that hides its own crown jewels.
The State of Australian Payments APIs
$500What twenty Australian payment companies actually publish, scored — the NPP-native market where the signature resource is PayID, and the agent surface is almost entire...
The State of Canadian Payments APIs
$500What fourteen Canadian payment companies actually publish, scored — the thinnest, most concentrated market, where the fintechs out-API the incumbents and the rails.
The State of US Healthcare APIs
$500Thirty years of mandated machine-to-machine standards produced clearinghouses, not APIs. The most standardised market measured here is the least programmable one.
The State of UK Healthcare APIs
$500What thirteen UK healthcare organizations actually publish, scored — the single-payer market where the incumbent leads and the challengers orbit.
The State of Australian Healthcare APIs
$500What twelve Australian healthcare organizations actually publish, scored — where the challengers out-execute the national agency, and one built the incumbents' FHIR.
The State of Canadian Healthcare APIs
$500What ten Canadian healthcare organizations actually publish, scored — the market with no FHIR-native challenger class, where a practice-management vendor tops the field.
The State of US Insurance APIs
$500What seventy-nine US insurance organizations actually publish, scored — the market with no mandate, where one company in the country publishes bind.
The State of UK Insurance APIs
$500What thirty-five UK insurance organizations and the London Market actually publish, scored — where a 337-year-old market beat every regulator to open APIs.
The State of Australian Insurance APIs
$500What twenty Australian insurance organizations actually publish, scored — the country with the machinery for open insurance and no obligation to use it.
The State of Canadian Insurance APIs
$500What twenty Canadian insurance organizations actually publish, scored — the only market with a real API certification programme, and its largest carrier is Not Yet Rated.
The State of Telecom APIs
$500What eighty-three telecom organizations worldwide actually publish, scored — the industry that built a real open standard and then published 351 specifications with no...
The State of US Real Estate APIs
$500What forty-five US real estate organizations actually publish, scored — the only industry that successfully mandated a machine-readable contract on itself, and the two...
The State of UK Real Estate APIs
$500What twenty-four UK real estate organizations actually publish, scored — the market with no MLS, no standard and no mandate, and the best-published real estate sector ...
The State of Australian Real Estate APIs
$500What eighteen Australian real estate organizations actually publish, scored — the market that mandated the rail instead of the schema, and got an API that carries prod...
The State of Canadian Real Estate APIs
$500What fourteen Canadian real estate organizations actually publish, scored — four facets at a clean sweep of zeros, and the fifth consecutive sector in which Canada fin...
The State of Headless APIs
$500What one hundred and six headless CMS, commerce and browser providers actually publish, scored — the architecture whose entire promise is that the API is the product, ...
The State of Australian Energy APIs
$500What twenty-four Australian energy organizations actually publish, scored — proof that a statutory data mandate transplants from one industry to another, and what it c...
The State of US Energy APIs
$500What sixty US energy organizations actually publish, scored — the market with the best standard, the largest scale, no obligation, and the lowest average of the four.
The State of UK Energy APIs
$500What twenty-six UK energy organizations actually publish, scored — the market that mandated the pipes instead of the data, and got exactly what it compelled.
The State of Canadian Energy APIs
$500What eighteen Canadian energy organizations actually publish, scored — one province mandated Green Button, and the country's best API belongs to a utility nobody compe...
The State of US Travel APIs
$500What thirty US travel and aviation organizations actually publish, scored — the sector where switching cost IS the commercial structure, and the published surface is i...
The State of UK Travel APIs
$500What fourteen UK travel and aviation organizations actually publish, scored — the country that proved mandates work, in the one sector it never mandated.
The State of Australian Travel APIs
$500What eleven Australian travel and aviation organizations actually publish, scored — the control group, and the lowest contract-quality reading in this entire research ...
The State of Canadian Travel APIs
$500What nine Canadian travel and aviation organizations actually publish, scored — the country that authored the travel industry's flagship standard, and the market where...
The State of Artificial Intelligence APIs
$500The AI industry adopted the protocol it invented and none of the safety rails that make it drivable. It shipped the door and skipped the locks.
The State of Developer Tools APIs
$500The best-scoring industry in the catalog — first of twenty-five — and it publishes idempotency at the same 2.8% rate as the worst. The gap was never competence.
The State of Cybersecurity APIs
$500The second-best-scoring market in the catalog — and 72% of it will not tell you how to report a vulnerability, now that the EU Cyber Resilience Act requires exactly that.
The State of API Management
$500What thirty-six API management platforms, gateways and data planes actually publish, scored — the market that sells other people their API practice, measured on its ow...
The State of Supply Chain APIs
$500The industry that moves the physical economy publishes idempotency at 1.3% — fifteen companies out of 1,154 — in the one market where a retried request dispatches a se...
The State of Compute & Hardware APIs
$500The companies that rent the chips score 36.5. The companies that design and fabricate those same chips score 10.7. NVIDIA scores 24.0 and NVIDIA NIM scores 78.7.
The State of Digital Health APIs
$500The market with the best standard and the most mandates publishes consent as a machine-readable surface at 3.4% — the same rate as the rest of the catalog, in the one ...
The State of Data & Analytics APIs
$500One of the best-scoring markets in the catalog — and the segment selling "know your data" is the worst-scoring segment inside it, publishing a contract 16.5% of the ti...
The State of Marketing & Advertising APIs
$500The industry whose tracking wrote the world's consent laws describes consent in its own APIs at 4.4% — below the whole-catalog rate, and at zero across the consent-man...
The State of Blockchain & Crypto APIs
$500One of the highest-publishing large markets in the catalog — median 26.4 against 15.0, idempotency at nearly three times the catalog rate — and OAuth scopes published ...
The State of API Documentation
$500What twenty-nine documentation platforms, reference renderers and docs-as-code frameworks actually publish, scored — the market whose entire job is making APIs legible...
The State of Education & EdTech APIs
$500The library out-publishes the classroom — scholarly infrastructure publishes a contract 51.0% of the time, corporate learning 0% — and thirty-four organizations in 810...
The State of Legal & Compliance APIs
$500The contract lifecycle management segment publishes the fewest contracts in its own market — 18.2% against e-signature's 55.0% — and the market that sells governance s...
The State of API Testing
$500What thirty-seven API testing platforms, mocking tools, load generators, contract frameworks and scanners actually publish, scored — the first market in this series th...
The State of API Clients
$500The market that consumes APIs rather than publishing them — why only three of thirty-five publish an API of their own, and why that is a deliberate market movement rat...
The State of Robotics & Autonomous Systems APIs
$500This market is not short of APIs — it is short of public ones. 5.8% publish a contract, and the most likely reason is a security posture that treats a documented inter...
The State of API Authentication
$500What forty identity, authentication and authorization providers actually publish, scored — the strongest-publishing market in this series, and the one where the scarce...
The State of Conversation and Coaching APIs
$500The weakest area in revenue software, and it holds at full coverage. Governance averages 18.1 in the market that holds recordings of every customer conversation.
The State of Data and Prospecting APIs
$500This area publishes contracts at a higher rate than the market around it and still fails every delegation dimension. The data moves; the permission to act on it does not.
The State of Engagement and Outreach APIs
$500Sixty-seven percent publish a contract — the highest of any large area in this report. Ninety percent cannot tell an agent whether a call was already made.
The State of Pipeline and Forecast APIs
$500This is the most connected software in go-to-market and it sits 1.2 points below the market median on Agent Readiness. Being integrated by everyone is not the same as ...
The State of Revenue Plumbing APIs
$500The best-scoring area in revenue software on every artifact measure, and it fails consent and idempotency at 91% each. Even the market's integration specialists have n...
The State of Quote-to-Cash APIs
$500Twenty-three companies, scoring above the market on every artifact measure and failing consent at 96%. The step immediately before money moves is the step least prepar...
The State of Retention and Expansion APIs
$500Twenty companies, and four of the market's own core terms carry no company at all. This is the one area in the report where coverage is a live question.
The State of Revenue APIs
$500This market has made itself readable by machines and has not made itself operable by them. Fifty-eight percent publish a contract and forty-six percent run their own M...
The State of Audience and Measurement APIs
$500One of marketing's strongest areas, with an eleven-point buy/sell split inside a single function. The same capability, measured differently depending on who pays for it.
The State of Content and Brand APIs
$500The lowest governance figure in marketing, in the area whose entire product is an asset other systems depend on retrieving.
The State of Demand Capture APIs
$500The second-strongest area in marketing, and the one where the product only works if the handoff works. Programmability here is not a virtue, it is the business model.
The State of Earned and Social APIs
$500The one area in this report where a low score is partly not the company's fault — and one of only two where the sell side outscores the buy side.
The State of Marketing APIs
$500The strongest divide in marketing software is not category, it is customer. Software sold to the advertiser scores 53.3; software sold to the publisher scores 39.0. Bo...
The State of Marketing Orchestration APIs
$500The area that automates marketing scores at the marketing average. Orchestration software that cannot itself be orchestrated is the clearest irony in this research.
The State of Owned Channel APIs
$500The strongest area in marketing, built by companies whose product was always an interface. Even here, delegation is missing at over eighty percent.
The State of Paid Media APIs — The Buy Side
$500This market transacts entirely by machine and describes itself to the outside world less than almost any other. The bid stream is a specification. The platform is not.
The State of Paid Media APIs — The Sell Side
$500The lowest scores in either cohort, and the clearest single finding in this research: the side of the transaction with no customer demanding transparency did not build...
The State of Retention and Advocacy APIs
$500The tightest Kin-to-Agent-Readiness gap in either cohort. What these companies publish, an agent can mostly use — there is simply not very much of it.
The State of the Sales Handoff APIs
$500The area that connects the two cohorts in this research scores like the stronger one. Software defined by a handoff gets good at handing off.
The State of Where the Spend Lands
$500The newest money in marketing arrives on the least described surfaces. Retail media grew into a major channel without building a public interface layer.
The State of Government APIs
$500The most consistently contract-publishing market measured anywhere in this research is also one of the least operable. Government did the part the policy named and sto...
The State of IoT APIs
$500This market solved interoperability where devices meet networks and left it unsolved where customers and agents meet platforms. The best contracts in the research seri...
The State of HR and Workforce APIs
$500This market proved it will adopt an API standard when one exists at the right layer. It has done that exactly once, for the narrowest problem in the stack.
The State of Climate, Energy and Sustainability APIs
$50098% of the upper band publishes a contract — the highest rate measured anywhere — and it is mostly weather APIs. The software that climate regulation created is sevent...
The State of Gaming APIs
$500The product is deliberately closed and the supply chain is wide open. Heroic Labs scores 78.8; Take-Two scores 7.1.
The State of Creator Economy APIs
$500The market everyone describes as dependent on platforms turns out to be the one best equipped to survive them.
The State of Weather and Geospatial APIs
$500The best-governed market in this research scores badly on an instrument built for agents that write. That is a finding about the instrument as much as the market.
The State of Space and Aerospace APIs
$500Forty years of machine-to-machine standards produced spacecraft that talk to each other across agencies and almost nothing a customer's agent can operate.
The State of Biotechnology APIs
$500An industry that built three workflow languages and published zero workflow contracts. Biotechnology solved sequencing, orchestration and reproducibility for compute p...
The State of Mobility APIs
$500The best-documented market in this research is the least agent-ready one. Mobility built excellent interfaces for a world of scheduled integrations and webhooks, and t...
verified Standard Reports
The CAMARA Standard
FreeThe industry that standardised itself without being told to — 1,369 participants, 487 organizations, 93 repositories, nothing graduated, and exactly one operator on ea...
The OpenAPI Standard
Free14,257 real OpenAPI documents, read as published. One in three carries no callable address, and OAS 3.2.0 reached four of them in ten months.
The AsyncAPI Standard
FreeAcross 26,722 providers, exactly one publishes an AsyncAPI document — and 159 describe their events in OpenAPI instead. In its own strongest segment, AsyncAPI is losin...
The JSON Schema Standard
Free9,439,146 schema objects measured inside published API contracts — and an industry still writing with the vocabulary it had in 2013.
The Arazzo Standard
Free812 Arazzo documents exist across all of public GitHub. API Evangelist holds 5,276. And the market adopted the specification as a test format, not a description format.
The Model Context Protocol Standard
Free3,060 providers carry an MCP artifact. 672 publish a server you can actually reach. And the median server exposes 11 tools while the largest exposes 588.
The OpenID Connect Standard
FreeThe identity layer under everything, declared in 102 of 14,195 published API contracts — 0.72%.
The OpenAPI Overlay Standard
Free122 stars, 21 contributors, two people writing four fifths of it — and Elastic, MongoDB, Cloudinary and Vercel running it in production. Attention and adoption have co...
The GraphQL Standard
Free793 providers publish a GraphQL schema defining 69,521 types — the second-largest description corpus measured here, and the one JSON Schema cannot reach.
The OAuth 2.0 Standard
Free775 published contracts still declare the implicit flow — 28.9% of every OAuth-using contract in the corpus, for a flow removed from OAuth 2.1.
The ARD Standard
FreeEleven of the largest agent builders specified the discovery layer. Nine companies publish it, seven of them are outsiders, none is fully conformant — and two fail on ...
The A2A Standard
Free65 organizations publish an Agent Card. Ten publish one a conformant client can read. And the ten that got it right score lower on API maturity than the forty-one that...
account_balance Portfolio Reports
The a16z API Portfolio
$750Every Andreessen Horowitz company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and what the book says about the fund's real bet.
The Y Combinator API Portfolio
$750Every Y Combinator company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why the batch is agent-native and governance-empty at the same time.
The Insight Partners API Portfolio
$750The largest growth-equity API book after a16z, scored the way a machine reads it — and why the estate that discovers best is the one least ready for agents.
The Accel API Portfolio
$750Every Accel company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — the infrastructure fund whose contracts are the broadest in venture and whose agent-executio...
The 500 Global API Portfolio
$750Every 500 Global company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a global seed book that is agent-native at the edges and governance-empty at the core, ...
The Techstars API Portfolio
$750Every Techstars company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a broad accelerator book of clean early-2010s contracts with a thin exemplar ceiling and...
The Lightspeed API Portfolio
$750Every Lightspeed company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why the top of the book and its real agent leaders are two different lists.
The Bessemer Venture Partners API Portfolio
$750Every Bessemer company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — the highest mean in venture, and the softest peak behind it.
The Battery Ventures API Portfolio
$750Every Battery Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a deep-contract infrastructure book whose OpenAPI surface outruns its governance.
The GV (Google Ventures) API Portfolio
$750Every Google Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a book of category-defining logos still reads agent-shallow behind Stripe.
The General Catalyst API Portfolio
$750Every General Catalyst company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a book that shipped agent front doors on banking and health APIs never sh...
The SoftBank Vision Fund API Portfolio
$750Every SoftBank Vision Fund company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why the biggest checks in venture buy the thinnest ceiling on the board.
The Index Ventures API Portfolio
$750Every Index Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a small, dense, enterprise-SaaS book with real agent depth at the top and a diligen...
The Norwest Venture Partners API Portfolio
$750Every Norwest Venture Partners company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a growth-stage barbell of Fortune-100 incumbents and a thin agent-native ...
The Bain Capital Ventures API Portfolio
$750Every Bain Capital Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a broad, enterprise-mature book whose one exemplar already exited, and whose...
The Kleiner Perkins API Portfolio
$750A small book with the densest top end measured in this series, where every exemplar is a frontier AI or design-infra bet and the mature franchises ship breadth but no ...
The Redpoint Ventures API Portfolio
$750Every Redpoint Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a book that scores near the top of the mean ships almost no agents at all.
The Menlo Ventures API Portfolio
$750Every Menlo Ventures company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a fund that backed the author of the agentic protocol has barely shipped it...
The Seedcamp API Portfolio
$750Europe's most agent-native seed book, scored the way a machine reads it — the highest agent-native rate of any fund measured, built on authored skills over shipped MCP...
The Speedinvest API Portfolio
$750Every Speedinvest company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a European seed book that learned to publish contracts before it learned to govern or ...
The Canaan Partners API Portfolio
$750Every Canaan Partners company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a broad, long-vintage generalist book still has no reference-grade API.
The Partech API Portfolio
$750Every Partech company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a European operator's book that went agent-native before it built a single exemplar.
The Bloomberg Beta API Portfolio
$750A small, focused seed book of the infrastructure agents will consume, scored the way a machine reads it — that has not yet been packaged for agents itself.
The DCVC API Portfolio
$750Every DCVC company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — a small deep-tech book that instruments its own agents but builds almost nothing at the top.
The Qiming Venture Partners API Portfolio
$750Every Qiming company that ships an API, scored the way a machine reads it — and why a competent China deep-tech book publishes APIs but has not yet operationalized trust.
The Sequoia Capital API Portfolio
$750A curated winners' slice of Sequoia Capital's book, scored the way a machine reads it — the highest quality and exemplar rate in the series, and the one that trails it...
query_stats Profile Reports
JPMorgan Chase — Profile Report
$1,500What JPMorgan Chase is actually buying, read from 7,799 of its own job postings — and what its API surface says back.
Salesforce — Profile Report
$1,500What Salesforce is actually buying, read from 1,434 of its own job postings — and the exemplar API surface it will judge yours against.
Autodesk — Profile Report
$1,500What Autodesk is actually buying, read from 632 of its own job postings — and the exemplar API surface behind it.
Adobe — Profile Report
$1,500The Fortune 1000's single heaviest AI buyer, read from 1,187 of its own job postings — and the API surface behind it.
ServiceNow — Profile Report
$1,500What ServiceNow is actually buying, read from 343 of its own job postings — and why a platform this API-heavy has no downloadable contract for you to design against.
Palo Alto Networks — Profile Report
$1,500What Palo Alto Networks is actually buying, read from 1,207 of its own job postings — and why the product line it hires hardest around is the one it publishes no contr...
Oracle — Profile Report
$1,500What Oracle is actually buying, read from its own job postings — and why one of the largest published API surfaces in the Fortune 1000 was effectively invisible to mac...
Avalara — Profile Report
$1,500What Avalara is actually buying, read from all 108 of its own job postings — and why a company that publishes 2,469 markdown documents for AI agents has machine-readab...
Postman — Profile Report
$1,500What Postman is actually buying, read from all 116 of its own job postings — and why the company whose product is API specification tooling publishes a specification o...
Workday — Profile Report
$1,500What Workday is actually buying, read from all 341 of its own job postings — and why the only machine-readable contract you can download from it without a login is SOAP.
Papers, from $25
Reports are bundles — a full body, companion documents and a machine-readable data bundle, priced by scope. Papers are single PDFs: one practice or topic in about twenty pages, with the anti-patterns and a self-assessment you can run on a Friday afternoon. Different product, different price, its own storefront.
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