Appalachian Regional Commission
The Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) is a federal-state partnership that invests in Appalachia's economic future by funding projects that promote economic development, infrastructure improvement, workforce training, and community development across 423 counties in 13 states. ARC provides research data, county-level economic reports, and maps via its Data Report Tool at data.arc.gov.
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 Appalachian Regional Commission the way a machine reads it — 14 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Appalachian Regional Commission scores 22.3/100 (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 Appalachian Regional Commission
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Appalachian Regional Commission. 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 1
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.
ARC Data Report Tool
The ARC Data Report Tool provides state- and county-level data for the entire Appalachian Region across six topic areas comparing Appalachian data with national averages. Data c...
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.
Appalachian Regional Commission Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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 5
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.
County-Level Data Reports
State and county-level data reports for all 423 Appalachian counties across six topic areas.
Regional Comparison Data
Appalachian Region data compared against national averages for benchmarking.
Research Reports
Regular research publications addressing socioeconomic issues in the Appalachian Region.
Maps
Geographic mapping data and visualizations covering the Appalachian Region.
Grant Program Data
Data on ARC's investment portfolios, grants, and program evaluations.
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 4
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.
Economic Research
Access county-level economic, demographic, and quality-of-life data for Appalachian research.
Grant Program Analysis
Evaluate ARC investment portfolios and grant outcomes across the Appalachian Region.
Policy Development
Use regional data to inform economic development and infrastructure policy decisions.
Community Development Planning
Access local data to support community-level economic development planning.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Appalachian Regional Commission — 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
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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