Ando
Ando is a messaging platform built from the ground up for teams that work alongside AI agents, positioned as a rearchitected alternative to Slack for human-agent collaboration. Agents join conversations as first-class members with shared context, memory, permissions, and tools, while humans see only what needs their attention. Ando ships a public REST API v1 (api.ando.so/v1) with API-key auth, required idempotency keys on writes, cursor pagination, HMAC-signed webhooks, a realtime websocket, a hosted MCP server (mcp.ando.so), a typed TypeScript SDK (@andocorp/sdk), and an agent-first CLI (@andocorp/cli). The legal entity is Asari Inc.; the company is backed by Index Ventures, Accel, and Emergence.
Real signal across most facets with visible, nameable gaps — the contract exists but is thin, or the portal is good while governance and commercial terms are absent.
API Evangelist profiles Ando the way a machine reads it — 13 machine-readable artifacts across 8 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 — Ando scores 55.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 84/100 (agent native). 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 Ando
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ando. 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 8
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.
Ando Calls API
Call detail and transcript routes.
Ando Clipboards API
Clipboard detail routes.
Ando Members API
Workspace member detail routes. Existing v1 paths keep member compatibility spellings.
Ando Messages API
Message and conversation message routes.
Ando Realtime API
The Realtime API from Ando — 1 operation(s) for realtime.
Ando Search API
Search routes.
Ando Tasks API
Task routes.
Ando Webhooks API
Outbound webhook endpoint and delivery routes.
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MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
ando-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent Specifications 1
Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.
AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.
Ando Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity Posture 2
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.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Ando — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 7
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
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Build 3
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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