Crayon
Crayon is a Boston-based competitive intelligence platform that automatically captures, analyzes and distributes competitor activity — website and pricing changes, product updates, social posts, news, reviews, job postings and review-site sentiment — and turns it into battlecards, competitor profiles, win/loss stories, objection handling and email digests for product marketing, sales enablement and go-to-market teams. Crayon AI adds automated summarization, dynamic battlecard updates and the 2026 'Sparks' feature, which reads a competitor's strategic moves and writes them up for revenue teams. On 2026-09-04 Crayon shipped what it describes as the first competitive-intelligence MCP server, a hosted OAuth-protected Model Context Protocol endpoint that exposes a customer's own curated Crayon content to Claude, ChatGPT, Glean, Microsoft Copilot, Google Gemini and internal Slack or Teams assistants. Crayon also markets a Content API and an Answers API, but publishes no developer portal, reference or machine-readable specification for either. NOTE: Crayon (crayon.co) is unrelated to Crayon Group ASA (crayon.com), the Norwegian Microsoft CSP.
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API Evangelist profiles Crayon the way a machine reads it — 8 machine-readable artifacts across 2 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 18.6/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 25/100 (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
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Kin Score
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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 2
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 Competitive Intelligence MCP Server
Hosted Model Context Protocol server exposing a customer's curated Crayon competitive intelligence — battlecards, win/loss stories, competitor profiles, objection handling and c...
Crayon Content and Answers API
Crayon markets a Content API (battlecards, win/loss stories, competitor profiles, objection handling, customer proof points) and an Answers API (structured real-time answers) fo...
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Crayon Competitive Intelligence MCP Server
Crayon's hosted Model Context Protocol server, announced 2026-09-04 as the first competitive-intelligence MCP server. It exposes the competitive content a customer already manag...
MCP SERVERPricing 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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Crayon Plans Pricing
PLANSRate 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.
Crayon Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity 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.
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.
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
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 3
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 4
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 4
The organization behind the API
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