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Crayon

Crayon is a competitive intelligence platform that automates the gathering, analysis, and distribution of competitor data from websites, social media, news, reviews, and other digital sources to power battlecards, win/loss analysis, and sales enablement. Its 2026 'Sparks' AI feature analyzes competitors' strategic moves and generates summaries for go-to-market teams. Crayon offers Content and Answers APIs plus a Competitive Intelligence MCP Server for integrating competitor insights into platforms like ChatGPT, Glean, Copilot, Slack, and CRMs.

agent aware

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Crayon the way a machine reads it — 15 machine-readable artifacts across 10 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 — Crayon scores 29.3/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 41/100 (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 — 29.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 12.8 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent aware
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

How we profile Crayon

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Crayon. 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 10

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.

Crayon Content and Answers API

REST API providing programmatic access to Crayon competitive intelligence content, battlecards, and AI-generated answers for integration into CRMs, enterprise search, and chat p...

Crayon Competitive Intelligence MCP Server

Model Context Protocol server (Competitive Data Platform) that exposes Crayon competitive intelligence to AI assistants and tools such as ChatGPT, Glean, Copilot, Slack, and CRM...

Crayon Agreements API

The Agreements API from Crayon — 1 operation(s) for agreements.

Crayon Authentication API

The Authentication API from Crayon — 1 operation(s) for authentication.

Crayon Billing API

The Billing API from Crayon — 2 operation(s) for billing.

Crayon Clients API

The Clients API from Crayon — 2 operation(s) for clients.

Crayon CustomerTenants API

The CustomerTenants API from Crayon — 2 operation(s) for customertenants.

Crayon Organizations API

The Organizations API from Crayon — 3 operation(s) for organizations.

Crayon Subscriptions API

The Subscriptions API from Crayon — 2 operation(s) for subscriptions.

Crayon Users API

The Users API from Crayon — 2 operation(s) for users.

Scroll within the panel for all 10 ·

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).

Crayon API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security 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.

Crayon Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Crayon Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Crayon Scopes

1 scope · clientCredentials

1 scopes

SCOPES

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.

Crayon Agentic Access

22 operations · 8 acting

22 operations · 8 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Crayon — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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