API Evangelist Paper · Trend Report
The State of Revenue APIs
This 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 MCP server, both high figures by any standard in the catalog. Zero describe a workflow. The distance between those two facts is the whole opportunity.
About this report
Revenue software is the most programmable corner of go-to-market, and it got there because it had to. A CRM that could not be integrated was worthless a decade before anyone used the word agent, and the market absorbed that lesson so thoroughly that contract publication is now unremarkable here. This report measures what that history actually bought — and where it stopped.
517 companies. Kin Score median 53.8, Agent Readiness median 48.0. 120 reach the Exemplar band; 96 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.
This 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 MCP server, both high figures by any standard in the catalog. Zero describe a workflow. The distance between those two facts is the whole opportunity.
What's inside
- Executive summary
- The state of the market
- The resource taxonomy — what this market actually exposes
- The vocabulary, as functions
- Glossary
- The composite Kin Score — and why it is the foundation
- Agent readiness — a separate instrument
- The blueprint — what the leaders satisfy and nobody else does
- Who this market depends on — and whether they publish
- The standards layer
- The regulatory layer
- Artifacts for the agentic turn — and the workflow gap
- Security, authentication and scopes
- Provider-by-provider intelligence, and the whole market ranked
- The investable thesis
- Coverage and method
- The climb — what moves a company here
- Where this is going
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