BlackLine
BlackLine is a cloud-based financial operations (FinOps) and accounting automation platform that helps finance and accounting teams automate the financial close, account reconciliation, journal entry, transaction matching, intercompany, consolidation integrity, and reporting processes. BlackLine exposes a suite of RESTful APIs on its developer portal so customers and partners can integrate the platform with ERP systems, banking platforms, payroll, and reporting tools — covering period management, user and team management, account reconciliation, journals, task management, transaction matching, and reporting. APIs authenticate with OAuth 2.0 client credentials. BlackLine (NASDAQ: BL) is a public company surfaced in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of ICONIQ Capital.
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 BlackLine the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 — BlackLine scores 26.8/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 10/100 (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 BlackLine
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for BlackLine. 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 7
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.
BlackLine Period API
Manage accounting periods (open/close, list periods) in BlackLine.
BlackLine User Management API
Create, read, and manage BlackLine user accounts.
BlackLine Team Management API
Manage BlackLine teams and team membership.
BlackLine Reporting API
Retrieve reporting data from the BlackLine platform.
BlackLine Account Reconciliation API
Manage reconciliation items and supporting documents programmatically.
BlackLine Journal Entry API
Create and manage journal entries programmatically.
BlackLine Transaction Matching API
Push transactions into BlackLine for automated matching.
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Security Posture 3
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.
Blackline Trust Center
SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, SOC 3, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27017, ISO/IEC 27018, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO/IEC 42001
SECURITYResources
Every other property we hold for BlackLine — 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 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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