ABABA
ABABA (株式会社ABABA) is a Tokyo-based Japanese HR technology company operating a new-graduate direct-recruiting platform built on an unusual premise: only students who have already reached the FINAL interview stage at another company may register, and each submits evidence of that selection history, so every candidate in the database arrives pre-qualified by someone else's hiring bar. Employers then scout those near-miss finalists into abbreviated selection flows — the company reports that 94% of adopting employers waive the entry sheet or the first interview for an ABABA candidate. A second product, REALME, runs AI mock interviews and matching. Founded 19 October 2020 and led by co-representatives Shunki Kubo (CEO) and Tatsuya Nakai, ABABA raised a 1.25 billion yen Series B in March 2025 led by DBJ Capital (1.82 billion yen total to date) and reported passing 3,000 cumulative adopting companies in November 2025. The product ships purely as an end-user web application: ABABA publishes no developer portal, API documentation, SDK, webhook catalog or machine-readable specification of any kind.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles ABABA the way a machine reads it — 3 machine-readable artifacts, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — ABABA scores 9.7/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 3/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Why this profile is thin
ABABA runs two real first-party hosts — a Bubble.io end-user application at ababa.co.jp whose robots.txt is Disallow:/ for every user agent, and an undocumented Go API at api.ababa.co.jp (AWS ap-northeast-1, permissive CORS, /health 200) that backs it — but the company publishes no developer program at all: every OpenAPI/Swagger/GraphQL/agent-card/apis.json path on all three hosts 404s against a clean negative control, api./docs./developer subdomains either 404 or do not resolve, and the corporate site's own sitemap lists only company, article, whitepaper, news, privacy and job-posting-policy routes with nothing developer-facing.
This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. ABABA does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.
What we probed
https://api.ababa.co.jp/openapi.json→ HTTP 404https://api.ababa.co.jp/graphql→ HTTP 404https://api.ababa.co.jp/docs→ HTTP 404https://api.ababa.co.jp/health→ HTTP 200https://api.ababa.co.jp/.well-known/agent-card.json→ HTTP 404https://api.ababa.co.jp/.well-known/ababa-negative-control-7f3ab91c.json→ HTTP 404https://ababa.co.jp/openapi.json→ HTTP 404https://ababa.co.jp/apis.json→ HTTP 404https://ababa.co.jp/llms.txt→ HTTP 404https://ababa.co.jp/robots.txt→ HTTP 200https://hr.ababa.co.jp/sitemap-static.xml→ HTTP 200https://hr.ababa.co.jp/zzz-does-not-exist-9f3a→ HTTP 200
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-05 · rubric v0.18.3
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How we profile ABABA
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for ABABA. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Ababa Plans Pricing
PLANSRate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Ababa Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 1
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Resources
Every other property we hold for ABABA — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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