API Rating & Profiling
Get your API surface profiled against Kin Score, the API Evangelist rating system — I audit it, add the machine-readable artifacts to your repository, and move your provider up the rankings. Prioritized profiling is $2,500.
Kin Score, the API Evangelist rating system, scores every API provider on how complete their surface is for developers and how safely it can be driven by AI agents, and the whole rubric is open — any team can climb it on their own by publishing the artifacts I score. Most of the time you should. But some teams do not have the time, do not know where their points are leaking, or simply want it handled by the person who wrote the rubric. That is what this is.
Every provider in the catalog is profiled from a public repository in the API Evangelist GitHub organization, and improving a rating is a normal open-source contribution — open an issue with a question, or send a pull request that adds the missing spec, plans, rate limits, or agentic-access contract, and the next scoring run picks it up. Those paths are free and always will be. Prioritized profiling is the fast lane: instead of waiting for the regular cadence, I do the work and move you up the queue.
For $2,500 I audit your public API surface against the full rubric — both the composite quality facets and the agent-readiness dimensions — find where you are leaving points on the table, and add the machine-readable artifacts to your API Evangelist repository so the score actually moves. You get a profiled provider, a clear picture of what changed and why, and a surface that reads as first-class to both developers and their agents.
What you walk away with
- A full profiling of your API surface against Kin Score — composite quality and agent readiness
- The missing machine-readable artifacts (OpenAPI, plans, rate limits, agentic-access contract, and more) added to your repository
- A clear, itemized picture of every point applied versus possible, and exactly what moved your score
- Prioritized placement ahead of the regular scoring cadence, and your provider live on APIs.io
Related
Start with the research
Everything I know about how the rating works and how to move it is already written down, priced, and yours to read tonight — no call, no scoping, no proposal. Start there.
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The API Rating Rubric, Explained $25
Exactly what the score measures, why it's weighted that way, and how to move it. -
Industry Report $500
Every provider in one market, scored on the same public rubric — the distribution, the leaders, the absent incumbents.
Free first: your Kin Score and Agent Readiness are already published on APIs.io. Look yourself up before you buy anything — the score costs nothing and it is the same rubric every report on this page is built from.
If you would rather have this done with you than do it yourself, I take a small number of engagements a year — [email protected].
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