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The State of Government APIs

The 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 stopped precisely there.

$500.00 Version 1.0 · 15 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

The State of Government APIs covers the organisations a civic technologist, a vendor selling into public procurement, or an agency benchmarking against its peers would actually need to know about.

850 organisations classified, 64 in the upper three bands. Median Kin Score 48.5, Agent Readiness 39.8. The population median is 16.2 — a great many public bodies appear in a catalog because they exist rather than because they run an API programme, and this report says which is which.

Government writes better contracts than the commercial markets do and has built almost none of the infrastructure an agent needs to act on them.

What's inside

  1. Executive summary
  2. The state of the market
  3. The resource taxonomy — what this market actually exposes
  4. The composite Kin Score — and why it is the foundation
  5. Agent readiness — a separate instrument
  6. The blueprint — what the leaders satisfy and nobody else does
  7. The standards layer
  8. The regulatory layer
  9. Artifacts for the agentic turn — and the workflow gap
  10. Security, authentication and scopes
  11. Provider-by-provider intelligence, and the whole upper band ranked
  12. The investable thesis
  13. Coverage and method
  14. The climb — what moves an organisation here
  15. 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
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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
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