API Evangelist Paper · Trend Report
The State of the Sales Handoff APIs
The area that connects the two cohorts in this research scores like the stronger one. Software defined by a handoff gets good at handing off.
About this report
Lead scoring, routing, enrichment, account-based marketing and sales intelligence — the seam where marketing stops and revenue starts. It scores like revenue rather than like marketing, six points above the marketing median, which is what you would expect of software that has to hand a record to a CRM to be worth anything at all.
156 companies. Kin Score median 53.6, Agent Readiness median 48.6. 36 reach the Exemplar band; 23 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.
The area that connects the two cohorts in this research scores like the stronger one. Software defined by a handoff gets good at handing off.
What's inside
- Executive summary
- The state of the market
- The market's own dividing line
- 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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