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API Evangelist Paper · Trend Report

The State of Engagement and Outreach APIs

Sixty-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.

$500.00 Version 1.0 · 14 August 2026
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description Editable Microsoft Word (.docx)
database The AI data bundle — every provider, scored (JSON/CSV/YAML)
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How this report was made. This report is generated using artificial intelligence, from open-source data, scored on the public Kin Score rubric, and every company in it is named and banded rather than cherry-picked. If anything in it is wrong, tell me and it is corrected in the next version — and if it was not worth what you paid, I will refund it. Read how the reports are produced →

About this report

Outreach is machine work by definition. Sequences, sends, deliverability, cadence — this is software whose entire job is doing something repeatedly without a person doing it. The area scores accordingly, and it is the strongest large area in revenue software. The interesting question is not whether these companies have APIs. It is how few have made the jump from callable by a program to usable by an agent.

221 companies. Kin Score median 59.8, Agent Readiness median 50.9. 72 reach the Exemplar band; 22 sit in Emerging or Minimal. Every one of them is named and ranked in the report — if you work in this market, you are in the table, and so is everyone you compete with.

Sixty-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.

What's inside

  1. Executive summary
  2. The state of the market
  3. The resource taxonomy — what this market actually exposes
  4. The vocabulary, as functions
  5. Glossary
  6. The composite Kin Score — and why it is the foundation
  7. Agent readiness — a separate instrument
  8. The blueprint — what the leaders satisfy and nobody else does
  9. Who this market depends on — and whether they publish
  10. The standards layer
  11. The regulatory layer
  12. Artifacts for the agentic turn — and the workflow gap
  13. Security, authentication and scopes
  14. Provider-by-provider intelligence, and the whole market ranked
  15. The investable thesis
  16. Coverage and method
  17. The climb — what moves a company here
  18. Where this is going

database Includes the AI data bundle

This report ships with a machine-readable data bundle — the evidence behind every number, packaged to drop straight into the AI tool of your choice. Converse with the research you bought, check any claim against the source data, and take it further than the PDF.

data_object providers.json / .csv / .yaml — every provider, layered raw → enriched → derived
table_rows scores.csv & rankings.csv — facet-by-facet scores, composite vs. agent-readiness rank
insights market-stats.json & capabilities.json — sector averages, band distribution, per-provider artifact inventory
forum AI-START-HERE + data dictionary, methodology & prompts — a paste-in primer so your AI reads it correctly

folder_zip Delivered as a single ZIP alongside the PDF and Word edition at checkout.

What you get for $500.00

picture_as_pdf A print-ready, formatted PDF edition
description The editable Word (.docx) source
database The AI data bundle — every provider scored, as JSON/CSV/YAML
forum An AI conversation primer so you can query the research directly
checklist The anti-patterns & self-assessment checklist
update Every future revision of this living report
$500.00 PDF + Word + AI data bundle (ZIP), instant download

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