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Bamboo Invest

Bamboo is an African investment platform providing REST APIs for fractional stock investing, dollar investments, portfolio management, and access to US and Nigerian capital markets. The APIs enable fintech partners to integrate brokerage account creation, money movement, stock trading, and portfolio tracking into their own financial services applications.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Bamboo Invest the way a machine reads it — 91 machine-readable artifacts across 21 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 — Bamboo Invest scores 41.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 39/100 (agent aware). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 41.3/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.6 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 2.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13
Governance 8.8 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Securities & Market Data 2.0 / 15
Agent readiness — 39/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Bamboo Invest

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Bamboo Invest. 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 21

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.

Bamboo Invest Account Management API

Account creation enables users to invest on Bamboo. Ensure KYC has been completed and each user’s identity verified before creating a brokerage account. **Best Practice:** To av...

Bamboo Invest Authentication API

Before you start making requests, you’ll need to generate an access token. Every request to the API must be authenticated using access tokens and user context headers — this ens...

Bamboo Invest Deposits API

Deposits fund user brokerage accounts for stock purchases. All deposits require verification through your webhook endpoint before funds are credited. On the

Bamboo Invest Exchange Rate API

The exchange rate section provides you with an endpoint that fetches real-time exchange rates effortlessly, enabling accurate currency conversions and financial calculations.

Bamboo Invest Featured Themes API

Stocks are grouped into various categories which help users explore and filter stocks based on common themes, sectors, or other criteria. The endpoints in this section allow you...

Bamboo Invest Financial Documents API

Access various financial documents required for user account management, tax reporting, and regulatory compliance through secure document retrieval endpoints. ##### Document Typ...

Bamboo Invest Https: API

The Https: API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for https:.

Bamboo Invest Lsx API

The Lsx API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for lsx.

Bamboo Invest Market Activity API

The market activity section provides you with endpoints that return the opening and closing times for markets we support, allowing you to check when market is open/closed. This ...

Bamboo Invest NG Deposits API

The NG Deposits API from Bamboo Invest — 2 operation(s) for ng deposits.

Bamboo Invest NG Securities API

The section provides us endpoints that allows a client to fetch all the information pertaining to the NG stocks available on Bamboo.

Bamboo Invest NG Stock Portfolio API

This section provides all the information a tenant needs to know about a user's investment portfolio values and general user performance.

Bamboo Invest NG Stock Trading API

The stock trading section details all the endpoints needed to calculate and make trade orders for all NG stock available on Bamboo. Please note that trade charges are applicable...

Bamboo Invest NG Withdrawals API

The NG Withdrawals API from Bamboo Invest — 2 operation(s) for ng withdrawals.

Bamboo Invest One Step Registration API

The One Step Registration API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for one step registration.

Bamboo Invest Portfolio Reporting API

The user's portfolio provides comprehensive views of investment performance, cash positions, and account status. Understanding the different cash types and portfolio calculation...

Bamboo Invest Stock Trading API

The Stock Trading API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for stock trading.

Bamboo Invest Tenant API

The Tenant API from Bamboo Invest — 1 operation(s) for tenant.

Bamboo Invest US Securities API

The section provides comprehensive information about available US stocks, including real-time pricing, company details, and market data. Stock themes also help users discover in...

Bamboo Invest US Stock Trading API

Users can buy and sell US securities, with support for multiple order types and fractional shares. Understanding order calculations, execution timing, and fees is crucial for in...

Bamboo Invest Withdrawals API

Withdrawals allow users to extract funds from their brokerage accounts after successful trades. Understanding the settlement timeline is essential. #### Settlement Timeline - St...

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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.

Bamboo Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

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.

Bamboo Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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.

Spectral Rules 1

Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.

Bamboo Invest API Rules

5 rules · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 57

Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Calculated order response

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order Cancelled

0 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Supported banks and sortcodes

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deposit Details

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Status of a Deposit

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

US Dictionary response

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error changeset response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Error response

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Exchange rates response

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Investment Profile response

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

LimitOrderRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Calculate order request

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Calculated order response

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Cancel an Order on the NGX

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deposit request

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deposit request

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Deposit response

9 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX Dictionary

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Array of users NGX stocks

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX place order request

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX Order details response

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order response

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX Order status response

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX Pending Order Response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX Portfolio response

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock About Info

13 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of all active stocks response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User's Cash Balance

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

NGX Withdrawal Request body

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Withdraw status

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Withdrawal response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

MarketOrderRequest

5 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order status response

20 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order id response

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Order Placement Parameters

11 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of pending orders

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Portfolio breakdown response

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Portfolio response

30 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Profile response

17 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Resource not found

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Stock Pricing Details

28 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of all active stocks response

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of all Stock Search Results

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

StopOrderRequest

7 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Tenant Brokerage Request body for NGN

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of all deposits with pagination

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of all themes

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Unauthorized response

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

List of Documents by Document Type

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

URL to download a Single Document

1 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User Stock Ownership

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

US Market Activity response

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

User Ownership Details

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Withdraw status

4 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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Examples 7

Real request and response payloads are what turn a spec from abstract into obvious — and they're one of the twelve things an agent needs to call an API correctly on the first try.

Example request and response payloads for these APIs.

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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.

Bamboo Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

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.

Bamboo Agentic Access

102 operations · 30 acting · 22 human-in-the-loop

102 operations · 30 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Bamboo Invest — 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.

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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