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Buildxact

Buildxact is a Melbourne, Australia-headquartered construction estimating and project management SaaS for residential builders, remodelers, trade contractors, and building-material suppliers. Founded in 2011, the company operates regional offices in Austin, Texas (North America), and serves customers across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada. The platform spans the full residential job lifecycle — lead capture, digital takeoffs, AI-assisted estimating ("Blu"), customer quoting and e-signatures, supplier/dealer price-list integration, purchase orders, scheduling (Gantt), timesheets, variations/change orders, invoicing, and two-way accounting sync with Xero and QuickBooks Online. Buildxact exposes a public REST API and webhook surface at developer.buildxact.com, available to Merchant and Manufacturer partners as well as customer subscribers, using a Microsoft Azure API Management gateway (Ocp-Apim-Subscription-Key + bearer token). Endpoints support OData filtering and sorting, with a separate UAT/staging environment. In 2024, Autodesk announced an agreement to acquire Buildxact, positioning the product as a residential construction front-end alongside Autodesk's broader AEC portfolio.

agent ready

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Buildxact the way a machine reads it — 22 machine-readable artifacts across 5 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 — Buildxact scores 57.0/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 54/100 (agent ready). 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 — 57.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 19.1 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 14.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 6.3 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 54/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Buildxact

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Buildxact. 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 5

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.

Buildxact Webhooks

Buildxact's webhook surface lets partner and customer integrations receive real-time notifications when events occur inside the construction-management platform — including Esti...

Buildxact Authentication API

First-party login and bearer token refresh.

Buildxact Estimate Items API

Line items inside an estimate (materials, labor, assemblies).

Buildxact Estimates API

Construction estimates — the top-level pricing document for a job.

Buildxact Tax Context API

Tax rates and inclusivity rules applied to estimate totals.

Open Collections 1

Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Buildxact Public API

OPEN COLLECTION

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.

Buildxact Rate Limits

1 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.

Event 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.

Buildxact Webhooks

Buildxact webhook delivery channel. Subscribers register a target URL inside the Buildxact web app ("My Business > API"), pick the events they want, and verify each payload with...

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Buildxact Context

0 classes · 5 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 3

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.

Buildxact API Rules

6 rules · 1 errors · 5 warnings

SPECTRAL

Buildxact API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings

SPECTRAL

Buildxact API Rules

7 rules · 1 errors · 4 warnings

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 2

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.

Buildxact Estimate Item

12 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Buildxact Estimate

14 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Examples 2

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.

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.

Buildxact Authentication

apiKey/http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Buildxact Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Buildxact Vulnerability Disclosure

disclosure policy published

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.

Buildxact Agentic Access

13 operations · 8 acting

13 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Buildxact — 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 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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