Administrative Conference of the United States
The Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) is an independent federal agency within the executive branch whose statutory mission is to identify ways to improve the procedures by which federal agencies administer regulatory, benefit, and other government programs. ACUS issues approximately a dozen recommendations per year to agencies, Congress, the President, and the Judicial Conference, aimed at enhancing efficiency and fairness in administrative procedures. The agency maintains the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database (with Stanford Law School), the Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) online database, and various open data resources under the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Administrative Conference of the United States the way a machine reads it — 17 machine-readable artifacts across 2 APIs, 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 — Administrative Conference of the United States scores 20.4/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (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.
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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Administrative Conference of the United States
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Administrative Conference of the United States. 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.
APIs 2
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) Database
ACUS maintains an online database of Equal Access to Justice Act (EAJA) awards, tracking awards of attorney's fees and other costs against the United States government. ACUS col...
Federal Administrative Adjudication Database
A joint project between ACUS and Stanford Law School, the Federal Administrative Adjudication Database provides comprehensive data on federal agency adjudication processes acros...
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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate 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.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Features 6
The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.
Notable capabilities this provider offers.
Regulatory Reform Recommendations
Issues approximately a dozen formal recommendations per year to federal agencies, Congress, the President, and the Judicial Conference aimed at improving the efficiency, fairnes...
Federal Administrative Adjudication Database
Joint project with Stanford Law School providing comprehensive data on federal agency adjudication processes, administrative law judges, and hearing statistics across all federa...
Equal Access To Justice Act (EAJA) Reporting
Annual reporting to Congress on awards of attorney's fees and costs against the United States under EAJA, with an online database of all EAJA awards accessible to the public.
Sourcebook Of US Executive Agencies
Comprehensive reference resource documenting the structure, authority, and programs of all U.S. executive agencies, updated periodically to reflect organizational changes.
Administrative Law Research And Publications
ACUS consultants and staff prepare research reports, model rules, and periodic summaries of administrative law reform bills on topics related to administrative procedure and gov...
Open Government Data Initiative
ACUS maintains open data resources and has designated a Chief Data Officer in compliance with the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2018.
Security 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.
Use Cases 5
What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.
What developers build with this provider.
Administrative Law Research
Legal researchers, law schools, and practitioners can access ACUS recommendations, reports, and the adjudication database to study trends in federal administrative law and regul...
Regulatory Process Benchmarking
Federal agencies can use ACUS recommendations and research to benchmark their regulatory and adjudicative procedures against best practices and ACUS-recommended reforms.
EAJA Litigation Cost Analysis
Researchers and policymakers can use the EAJA database to analyze government litigation costs, identify agencies with high fee award rates, and evaluate the effectiveness of EAJ...
Rulemaking Process Reform
Congressional staff and agency officials can draw on ACUS reports and model rules for guidance on improving rulemaking procedures, notice-and-comment processes, and public parti...
Government Efficiency Analysis
Public interest organizations and policy researchers can use ACUS data and publications to analyze opportunities for improving government administrative processes and reducing r...
Resources
Every other property we hold for Administrative Conference of the United States — 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.
Get Started 1
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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