There is a metaphor for the Kin Score I have come to like. When you turn up at a restaurant, you can learn a lot by visiting the bathroom. It gives you an idea of how much attention is being paid to hygiene and detail in the kitchen, the…
Over the last two weeks I re-profiled two of the largest API estates on the planet, one after the other. I wrote up the Microsoft API estate last week and the Amazon API estate yesterday. Both write-ups stand on their own. This one is…
The AI Catalog working group is finalizing version 0.9. The AI Catalog is the JSON document a host publishes at /.well-known/ai-catalog.json , listing its MCP servers, A2A agents, agent skills and other AI artifacts. The last open question…
A coding agent working on a checkout endpoint needs to know more than the file it’s editing. It needs to understand how Inventory reserves stock, what Payments returns when a charge is declined, and what the right behavior is when either…
Twilio charges for what you send, not for seats or a subscription. That makes the price of one text message easy to find and the monthly bill harder to predict. The message rate is only one of several charges. I read Twilio’s US SMS…
This is the next in my daily series looking at a company that publishes an A2A agent card, and how its competitors compare. The background is in 934 conformant A2A agent cards and who is publishing them . The full list lives in the APIs.io…
AI agents are radically reimagining virtually every aspect of digital technology, forcing us to reconsider everything from software design to how businesses operate. While agentic AI is opening up a wide range of exciting new…
A consultant told me recently that their firm is always looking for organizations doing something interesting that could be folded into what they do. They thought that comparing what is on the package with what the Kin Score says would be…
Last week I wrote about the Microsoft API estate . This week I re-profiled every live member of the Amazon API estate on APIs.io . That is 199 provider profiles, run in eleven waves, plus one I had to run by itself, and every one of them…
I’ve been building bundles that pair a JSON Schema with OpenLint-format rules, after finding out that the decoder only pours part of the bedrock . When I looked at shipping I made a claim I now need to walk back a little. I wrote that an…
Marking an API operation as deprecated is the easy part. You flip deprecated: true in the OpenAPI and move on. What breaks consumers isn’t the flag. It’s the missing date. A deprecated operation that never says when it goes away leaves…
If you run an NFT collection, a digital art shop, or a community built around tokens, the work that eats your day is keeping an eye on the market. Who listed something, what sold, what offers are sitting on your items, and what the…
If you run a software team, a lot of the week goes to small coordination chores: making sure the right person reviews every change, checking whether the build passed, knowing what got deployed to production and when, and keeping the bug…
If you run a gym, a coaching practice, a running club, a bike shop or a corporate wellness program, you have probably wished you could see the workouts your people are already logging, without asking them to type everything in twice. Many…
If you run a business that has to know where things are, you have probably wrestled with this. You have a spreadsheet of customer addresses and you need them on a map. You have a delivery driver’s GPS coordinates and you need the street…
If you want to put DocuSign signing inside your own product, you’re looking for the developer plans, not the eSignature plans most people see first. Both are priced differently, and the difference matters once you’re sending agreements…
I am working through the companies that publish an A2A agent card and looking at them next to their competitors. I laid out the bigger picture in 934 conformant A2A agent cards and who is publishing them , and you can browse the whole set…
If your business runs on Microsoft 365, a lot of your day goes into the same handful of chores. Adding a new hire and setting up how they sign in. Checking whether a security alert needs attention. Keeping the team’s plans and tasks up to…
Yesterday I shared the panel on designing for the agentic experience from Nordic APIs Summit in Stockholm. Today it’s my closing talk from later that same day, which I’ve also added to the API Evangelist videos . I score roughly 25,000 API…
For five weeks I have been putting numbers from job postings in front of you. MCP in 102 companies, Claude in 380, Sarbanes-Oxley in 518. Before the Q4 read lands on November 20, I owe you the other half of the story: how many of the…
Someone who works at a software vendor told me about an interesting exercise recently. They looked up their own company on APIs.io, then their competitors, then a lot of the software platforms they had used in earlier jobs. Their…
People see the result of a profile: a provider page on APIs.io , a Kin Score , a band, and an Agent Readiness reading. They don’t see what it takes to get there. I get asked about it enough that I want to walk through everything our agents…
Most API governance conversations start with a decision somebody has to defend. “Every list endpoint must paginate.” Fine, but where is that written down, what rule checks it, and what standard does it lean on? On most teams those three…
Yesterday I shared a screenshot on LinkedIn, and it took off. More than 32,000 people have seen it, and the comments are still coming in. The screenshot was of a Bluesky post by Jan Lehnardt , quoting a thread by James Coglan. Here is the…
I have wanted a Schema.org for APIs for a long time. I don’t mean another standard written by a committee and handed down. I mean the vocabulary the market already shares, measured from the OpenAPI that providers publish about themselves.…
A lot of teams run projects in Smartsheet and then spend part of every day checking it: did someone update that row, did the status change, has the new request come in. Then they copy what changed into email, chat or another system.…
If your business sells on TikTok, you probably know the routine: building ad campaigns in one screen, checking orders in another, updating products by hand, printing shipping labels one at a time. Every one of those steps can be done by…
On November 17 at 10:00 AM PT, Anthony Viard and I are running a 30-minute live webinar on closing those gaps without leaving your terminal. It’s called “One Terminal, Entire Agentic SDLC,” and the event page is on Luma . We’ll work…
Maybe you want a store locator that looks like your brand rather than a generic map. Maybe you have a list of delivery zones, service areas, properties or field assets and want them on a map your customers or staff can actually use. Or you…
The email from Postman Secret Scanner arrives in the evening. A bearer token for patients-service sits in plain text in a saved request, inside a team workspace. You’re not at your desk, there’s no terminal in reach, and the token can read…
Most small businesses running QuickBooks have someone re-keying numbers: orders from the store into invoices, supplier bills from email into payables, totals from the books into a weekly report for the owner. If that sounds familiar, the…
If you’re choosing between GitHub and GitLab, you’re picking where your code lives, where your builds run and how much you pay per developer for both. You’re also picking an API. Both companies let you drive nearly everything through one…
If you have ever caught yourself copying search results into a spreadsheet by hand, checking where your business shows up on Google Maps, watching which jobs a competitor is posting, or tracking how interest in a product moves over time…
Historically, telecommunications networks operated as closed and fragmented systems that exposed their capabilities in proprietary ways. For a developer or a company to utilize mobile network resources, like verifying a device’s exact…
Your functional tests run in Postman on every pull request. Your load tests live in a .jmx file that one person understands and nobody wants to open. Tool sprawl is real, and we get it – which is why we built Performance testing in…
For more than a decade I’ve showcased the common building blocks of an API. Documentation, a getting started page, SDKs, authentication, sign-up, pricing, rate limits, terms of service, a privacy policy, a status page, a change log, and…
Most APIs were written for a human who reads the docs, squints at an error message, and tries again. An AI agent doesn’t do any of that well. It calls the endpoint your spec describes, and if the spec says nothing about what happens when…
Last week, I gave a talk at GitHub Universe 2026 about context. The question behind it: when a coding agent changes one API, how does it know what else that change breaks? The demo answers it with two agents building on a healthcare app…