Denim
Denim (denim.com, formerly Axle Payments) is an all-in-one financial and back-office platform for freight brokers, trucking companies, and 3PLs. It provides freight factoring, invoicing, collections, carrier payments, and a fuel card, automating the broker back office and syncing two ways with transportation management systems. The Denim Public API (OpenAPI 3.0) exposes freight loads (jobs), debtors, payees, companies, factoring companies, and transactions, secured with an x-api-key header, so partners can create and quote jobs, onboard debtor/payee relationships, and reconcile transactions programmatically. Added to the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-company lead and enriched from the provider's public developer surface.
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 Denim the way a machine reads it — 10 machine-readable artifacts across 6 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 — Denim scores 50.8/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 62/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Denim
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Denim. 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 6
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.
Denim Companies API
A company in our system includes Payees, Debtors, and Factoring companies. Companies records are available globally in our ecosystem and shared by other clients.
Denim Debtors API
A debtor is your customer or shipper. They are the entity that will be paying the invoices. Debtors are a type of Company in our ecosystem and are associated to our shared clien...
Denim Jobs API
A job is a collection of obligations (payables, receivables, and fees) associated with an invoice or purchase order.
Denim Jobs V2 API
Version 2. A job is a collection of obligations (payables, receivables, and fees) associated with an invoice or purchase order.
Denim Payees API
A payee is your contractor or carrier. They are the entity that needs to be paid for services. Payees are a type of Company in our ecosystem and are associated to our shared cli...
Denim Transactions API
Transactions are payments incoming, outgoing, netting, and adjustments. Transactions are are generally applied towards obligations.
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.
denim-mcp.yml
MCP SERVERSecurity 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Denim — 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 5
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 4
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 2
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
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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