Descartes Underwriting
Descartes Underwriting is a Paris-headquartered insurtech, founded in 2019, specializing in parametric insurance for climate, natural-catastrophe, cyber, and emerging corporate risks. It operates two complementary entities — Descartes Underwriting, a global parametric managing general agent (MGA), and Descartes Insurance, an ACPR-licensed European full-stack carrier — using AI, satellite imagery, IoT sensor data, and scientific risk models to structure index-based covers that pay out automatically within days when a predefined trigger is met, without a traditional claims-adjustment process. Backed by Battery Ventures and other investors, the company serves 600+ large corporations and public entities through corporate brokers across 20+ offices worldwide. No public developer API or documentation is published; the company distributes coverage through brokers rather than a self-serve API surface.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Descartes Underwriting the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Descartes Underwriting scores 10.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Why this profile is thin
Descartes Underwriting distributes bespoke parametric cover through corporate brokers and ships no public developer surface at all — /api, /docs, /developers, /openapi.json and every /.well-known/ path on descartesunderwriting.com return HTTP 404, no api./developer./docs./portal./ broker./app. subdomain resolves in DNS, and the company's seven public GitHub repositories are hiring technical tests and internal training rather than client SDKs.
This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Descartes Underwriting does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.
What we probed
https://descartesunderwriting.com/developers→ HTTP 404https://descartesunderwriting.com/openapi.json→ HTTP 404https://descartesunderwriting.com/.well-known/agent-card.json→ HTTP 404https://api.descartesunderwriting.com/→ HTTP 0https://api.github.com/orgs/descartes-underwriting/repos→ HTTP 200
Kin Score
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Kin Score
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How we profile Descartes Underwriting
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Descartes Underwriting. 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.
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 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.
Security Posture 1
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Descartes Underwriting — 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.
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
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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