What's in the queue

Every uncovered industry in the catalog carrying 120+ scored providers, largest first. That is 14 markets remaining — fewer than the month's 42 slots, so the balance goes to country cuts of sectors already covered, where a different regulatory regime changes the answer, and to the area cuts named below.

Published: Artificial Intelligence · Developer Tools · Cybersecurity · Telecommunications · Supply Chain · Compute & Hardware · Digital Health · Data & Analytics · Marketing & Advertising · Blockchain & Crypto · Education · Legal & Compliance · Robotics. Semiconductors and hardware shipped as Compute & Hardware, because that cohort had to be rebuilt by hand to say anything true — on the tag rule alone the top “semiconductor” company was Google Cloud. Data & Analytics was missing from the first cut of this page, went on the list as the largest uncovered industry in the catalog, and shipped the same week.

1. Venture Capital — venture-capital
2. Climate Sustainability — climate-sustainability
3. Biotechnology — biotechnology
4. Human Capital Management — human-capital-management
5. Government — government
6. Creator Economy — creator-economy
7. IOT — iot
8. Gaming — gaming
9. Mobility — mobility
10. Weather Geospatial — weather-geospatial
11. Space — space
12. Industrial — industrial
13. Technology — technology
14. Financial Services — financial-services

An industry is who a company sells to. An area is what the API actually does — gateways, webhooks, observability, SDKs, testing. I have published a research site per area for years; these are the same 77 areas read as markets and scored on the same rubric, so you can ask "how good is the tooling I buy" rather than only "how good is the sector I sell into." Ordered by how many scored providers work in each. Twenty-nine clear 50 providers and are named here.

Published: The State of API Management — 36 vendors, hand-named, the first area cut. Management is not on the list below, and that is the point: it matches 6 providers by tag, so it was in the too-thin-to-trust bucket until the cohort was named by hand. API management is a fuzzy category and no rule draws its edge correctly, so the boundary is editorial and the report says so. That is the method every area cut now follows, and it is why the counts below are a starting order rather than a promise.

1. Machine Learning — 1,038 providers
2. SaaS Management — 949 providers
3. Security — 767 providers
4. Workflow Automation — 646 providers
5. AI Automation — 479 providers
6. Webhooks — 435 providers
7. SDKs — 343 providers
8. Observability — 299 providers
9. Agents — 274 providers
10. Monitoring — 179 providers
11. Authentication — 176 providers
12. Database — 174 providers
13. Privacy — 137 providers
14. Serverless — 137 providers
15. Containers — 133 providers
16. Testing — 132 providers
17. Microservices — 111 providers
18. Command Line Interface — 106 providers
19. Communications — 99 providers
20. Embedded iPaaS — 95 providers
21. Design — 89 providers
22. Documentation — 87 providers
23. Orchestration — 79 providers
24. FinOps — 74 providers
25. Internet of Things — 74 providers
26. Integrations — 73 providers
27. Deployment — 61 providers
28. Monetization — 59 providers
29. Developer Experience — 51 providers

Three things I would rather say here than have you find out after buying. These are Trend Reports, same type and same $500 — an area is a cohort shape, not a new product, and they come out of the same two-a-business-day slot as the industry cuts rather than on top of it. The counts above are how many catalog providers currently match each area, and matching runs on tags, which undercounts — the Gateway area matches 14 providers when the real gateway market is several times that, because vendors like Kong and Apigee carry it in an API-level tag the catalog roll-up never reads. So a report gets written only once its cohort is a checked roster, the way the Headless one was. That is also why the remaining areas are not named: they are not too small to matter, they are too tag-thin to trust yet. Industrial is covered on the industry list instead of here, and API Evangelist's own properties — Search, Discovery, Partners — are not markets.

Fortune 1000 accounts ranked by Kin Score. A bundle reads one account from both sides — what it buys, from its own job postings, and what it publishes, from its API surface — so an account is not a candidate until its postings have been pulled. At this size of company a corpus under 100 postings means the pull is incomplete rather than the company quiet, so those accounts are held until it is re-pulled. 218 of the 954 accounts we track clear that gate with a scored surface behind it; the top 42 are named here, and the posting count is on every line, because corpus depth sets what a report can honestly claim. Accounts already published are excluded.

1. Bentley Systems — 69.8 · 128 postings
2. Amadeus — 68.5 · 143 postings
3. Snowflake — 66.0 · 354 postings
4. Apple — 64.1 · 3,805 postings
5. Intuit — 63.7 · 454 postings
6. Moodys — 63.7 · 211 postings
7. Zoom — 63.2 · 120 postings
8. Cisco — 61.5 · 746 postings
9. Microsoft — 60.0 · 1,540 postings
10. Amazon — 59.6 · 999 postings
11. Shell — 57.8 · 172 postings
12. Snapchat — 57.4 · 122 postings
13. Cigna — 56.4 · 635 postings
14. Ciena — 55.6 · 184 postings
15. Airbnb — 54.3 · 236 postings
16. Sabre — 53.7 · 171 postings
17. Super Micro Computer — 53.6 · 128 postings
18. Charles Schwab — 53.0 · 228 postings
19. 3M — 52.5 · 407 postings
20. Vistra — 50.4 · 181 postings
21. Rockwell Automation — 49.4 · 509 postings
22. Broadridge — 48.9 · 236 postings
23. Mastercard — 48.8 · 1,180 postings
24. Warner Bros. Discovery — 48.4 · 411 postings
25. AGCO — 48.3 · 421 postings
26. Dexcom — 48.2 · 370 postings
27. Stanley Black & Decker — 47.6 · 496 postings
28. TD SYNNEX — 47.3 · 603 postings
29. Capital One — 47.2 · 1,429 postings
30. Deliveroo — 47.1 · 228 postings
31. Dell Technologies — 46.7 · 353 postings
32. Samsung — 46.5 · 498 postings
33. United Airlines — 46.2 · 157 postings
34. UPS — 45.8 · 1,005 postings
35. Broadcom — 45.3 · 386 postings
36. Vertiv — 45.2 · 384 postings
37. Walt Disney — 45.2 · 648 postings
38. Toro — 44.7 · 138 postings
39. Clarivate — 44.6 · 167 postings
40. Elsevier — 44.6 · 201 postings
41. Palantir — 44.5 · 226 postings
42. Scotiabank — 43.9 · 168 postings

Ranked by how often each standard already shows up across the published research — the ones the evidence keeps pointing at. CAMARA, OpenAPI, AsyncAPI, JSON Schema, MCP, OpenID Connect, OAuth 2.0 and ARD are done; these are next.

1. RESO Web API — cited in 5 reports
2. security.txt — cited in 5 reports
3. ACORD — cited in 4 reports
4. IATA NDC — cited in 4 reports

One 60–90 second video per industry, on the provider that tops it: who they are, what APIs they publish, their Kin Score and Agent Readiness, and where that puts them against the rest of their market. Published to YouTube. Leaders are read from each report's own cohort, so this list changes when the scores do — and standards bodies and regulators are excluded, because topping a table you are not competing in is not leadership. Twenty-one business days in August covers the first 21; the last 9 run into September.

1. Alpaca — Market Data APIs · Kin 84.5 / agent 65.8
2. Stripe — US Payments APIs · Kin 84.2 / agent 63.5
3. Trulioo — Canadian Payments APIs · Kin 81.1 / agent 53.6
4. Plaid — US Banking APIs · Kin 74.6 / agent 57.4
5. Twilio — Telecom APIs · Kin 73.6 / agent 58.1
6. Ordnance Survey — UK Real Estate APIs · Kin 66.0 / agent 47.5
7. Medplum — US Healthcare APIs · Kin 65.9 / agent 41.4
8. Airwallex — Australian Payments APIs · Kin 63.6 / agent 30.6
9. Tesla Energy — US Energy APIs · Kin 62.7 / agent 30.6
10. Heidi Health — Australian Healthcare APIs · Kin 61.4 / agent 30.6
11. PEXA — Australian Real Estate APIs · Kin 60.3 / agent 60.6
12. Moneyhub — UK Payments APIs · Kin 60.1 / agent 42.8
13. Xoserve — UK Energy APIs · Kin 60.0 / agent 38.1
14. AEMO — Australian Energy APIs · Kin 57.6 / agent 53.4
15. Moneris — Canadian Banking APIs · Kin 57.1 / agent 56.1
16. Yardi — US Real Estate APIs · Kin 56.9 / agent 45.0
17. Jane — Canadian Healthcare APIs · Kin 56.0 / agent 41.2
18. Oracle Hospitality — US Travel APIs · Kin 55.9 / agent 38.5
19. Cigna — US Insurance APIs · Kin 55.8 / agent 30.6
20. NatWest Group — UK Banking APIs · Kin 54.5 / agent 51.6
21. Up — Australian Banking APIs · Kin 52.8 / agent 56.5
22. Semble — UK Healthcare APIs · Kin 52.4 / agent 38.5 (September)
23. TUI Group — UK Travel APIs · Kin 52.2 / agent 48.4 (September)
24. Evari — Australian Insurance APIs · Kin 50.9 / agent 37.6 (September)
25. APOLLO Insurance — Canadian Insurance APIs · Kin 50.8 / agent 50.7 (September)
26. Yardi Canada — Canadian Real Estate APIs · Kin 50.6 / agent 46.2 (September)
27. Air Canada — Canadian Travel APIs · Kin 49.9 / agent 39.2 (September)
28. IESO — Canadian Energy APIs · Kin 49.0 / agent 41.7 (September)
29. Beazley — UK Insurance APIs · Kin 48.9 / agent 48.0 (September)
30. Webjet — Australian Travel APIs · Kin 47.5 / agent 48.0 (September)

Not a report — catalog coverage. Picked from the secondary-market companies not yet in the catalog, ranked by how many venues list them, which is the closest proxy for how much the market cares.

Profiled: 711 companies to date, and every company listed on three or more venues is now done — that seam is exhausted. 16,600 remain: 1,538 listed on two venues, 14,980 on a single venue, and 82 venture-portfolio gaps carrying no venue count at all. The names below are the two-venue tier, which is where conviction starts to thin. A company can be worth profiling and still score badly — a clinical-stage biotech has no reason to ship an API, and the rating says so rather than pretending otherwise.

1. 88rising — 2 venues
2. 8i — 2 venues
3. 98point6 — 2 venues
4. A-Alpha Bio — 2 venues
5. A24 Films — 2 venues
6. Aardvark Therapeutics — 2 venues
7. Ablative Solutions — 2 venues
8. Abpro — 2 venues
9. Academia — 2 venues
10. Accelsius — 2 venues
11. AccessFintech — 2 venues
12. AccessHope — 2 venues
13. Acepodia — 2 venues
14. Achates Power — 2 venues
15. Acrisure — 2 venues
16. ActiveFence — 2 venues
17. actnano — 2 venues
18. ADARx Pharmaceuticals — 2 venues
19. Adcendo — 2 venues
20. Adona Medical — 2 venues
21. Aera Technology — 2 venues
22. Aero — 2 venues
23. Aeroseal — 2 venues
24. Aerospacelab — 2 venues
25. Aetion — 2 venues
26. Affect Therapeutics — 2 venues
27. Afiniti — 2 venues
28. AgencyKPI — 2 venues
29. Agibot — 2 venues
30. AgNovos Bioscience — 2 venues
31. Agora Data — 2 venues
32. Agriconomie — 2 venues
33. AgroSpheres — 2 venues
34. AheadComputing — 2 venues
35. AI Bank — 2 venues
36. AiFi — 2 venues
37. AIRNA — 2 venues
38. Airtm — 2 venues
39. Ajaib — 2 venues
40. Akia — 2 venues
41. Akston Biosciences — 2 venues
42. Akuity — 2 venues
43. Alamar Biosciences — 2 venues
44. Albo — 2 venues
45. Alcatraz AI — 2 venues
46. Alchemy Insights — 2 venues
47. Alice Bob — 2 venues
48. Allay Therapeutics — 2 venues
49. Alleva — 2 venues
50. Alleviant Medical — 2 venues
51. Alloplex Biotherapeutics — 2 venues
52. Allorion Therapeutics — 2 venues
53. Allotex — 2 venues
54. Alloy Enterprises — 2 venues
55. AllStripes — 2 venues
56. AllWork — 2 venues
57. Alto Pharmacy — 2 venues
58. AltoIRA — 2 venues
59. ALTR — 2 venues
60. Alume Biosciences — 2 venues