Credentially
Credentially is a UK-founded, healthcare-only onboarding and compliance automation platform used by NHS trusts, private providers, urgent care and clinical staffing agencies in the UK and US. It brings pre-employment checks, DBS and right-to-work validation, primary source verification, credentialing and continuous compliance monitoring onto one platform, cutting the platform-managed steps of onboarding clinical staff from an industry average of around 60 days to as little as 5. The Credentially Public API (OpenAPI 3.1) exposes profiles, placements, documents with OCR auto-fill, DBS checks, references, right-to-work status and compliance packages, with a companion Webhook API for state-change events.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Credentially the way a machine reads it — 27 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 — Credentially scores 59.2/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 71/100 (agent native). 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.
How we profile Credentially
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Credentially. 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.
Credentially Compliance-packages API
Profile's compliance packages management proxy endpoints
Credentially DBS API
DBS check lookup and refresh endpoints
Credentially Dictionary API
Dictionary lookup endpoints for custom profile field values
Credentially Document Auto-fill API
Automated document data extraction and validation endpoints
Credentially Documents API
Document management proxy endpoints
Credentially Employee Placements API
Placement data scoped to a specific employee.
Credentially Jurisdictions API
Org-scoped jurisdictions a placement can reference (read-only).
Credentially Location Types API
Org-scoped classifications for placement locations (read-only).
Credentially Locations API
Facilities / sites where placements occur. Each belongs to one jurisdiction.
Credentially Meta API
API for fetching metadata
Credentially Organisation Groups API
Organisation group member management endpoints
Credentially Placement Notes API
Notes attached to a placement — free-text annotations.
Credentially Placement Roles API
Org-scoped roles a placement can reference (e.g. Band 6 RN).
Credentially Placements API
Placement lifecycle proxy endpoints — assignment of an employee to a location + role within the organisation.
Credentially Profile Groups API
Organisation groups proxy endpoints
Credentially Profiles API
Profile management proxy endpoints
Credentially References API
Profile reference status lookup endpoints
Credentially Right to Work API
Right to work status lookup endpoints
Credentially Stage Placements API
Placements scoped to a Kanban stage — board column reads + bulk-move.
Credentially Stages API
Kanban placement stages — per-org column definitions for the placements board.
Credentially Subscriptions API
API for managing webhook callback subscriptions
Scroll within the panel for all 21 ·
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.
credentially-mcp.yml
MCP SERVEREvent 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.
Credentially Webhooks
ASYNCAPISecurity 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.
Credentially Trust Center
ISO/IEC 27001:2022, Cyber Essentials Plus, NHS Data Security and Protection Toolkit (Standards Exceeded), NHS DTAC, GDPR, ICO registered
SECURITYAgentic 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Credentially — 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 5
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 2
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 4
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 4
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 2
The organization behind the API
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