Descartes Systems Group
The Descartes Systems Group is a global logistics and supply chain software company whose cloud-based Global Logistics Network connects manufacturers, distributors, carriers, brokers, and freight forwarders. Descartes delivers its capabilities across a large family of products - real-time freight visibility and carrier sourcing (Descartes MacroPoint), customs and regulatory compliance and trade content (Descartes CustomsInfo, NetCHB), global trade intelligence (Descartes Datamyne), routing and mobile, and B2B connectivity and messaging. Descartes exposes APIs on a per-product basis: the MacroPoint visibility, capacity, and carrier integration APIs are publicly documented (customer credentials required), while trade content, trade data, and B2B connectivity APIs are provisioned through the Descartes API portal or a sales/contract engagement. Most API access is customer/partner-gated rather than open self-service signup.
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.
API Evangelist profiles Descartes Systems Group 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 — Descartes Systems Group scores 25.1/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (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.
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 Descartes Systems Group
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Descartes Systems Group. 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.
Descartes MacroPoint Visibility API
Real-time freight and shipment visibility. Lets a shipper, broker, or 3PL create, update, monitor, and stop tracking sessions on loads directly from a TMS or ERP and receive loc...
Descartes MacroPoint Capacity Integration API
Intelligent carrier sourcing and capacity matching. An Import API pushes available-capacity and load data into MacroPoint Capacity, and an Export API returns carrier matches bac...
Descartes MacroPoint Carrier Integration API
Carrier-facing integration for the MacroPoint Visibility network. Lets carriers and telematics/ELD providers supply location updates as lat/long coordinate sets or addresses, pl...
Descartes CustomsInfo Trade Content API
Trade content and classification for customs and regulatory compliance. Delivers Harmonized System (HS) codes and product classification, current tariff and duty rates and prefe...
Descartes Datamyne Global Trade Data API
Programmatic access to Descartes Datamyne's global import/export trade data - bill-of-lading and customs records, trade flows, and company/commodity intelligence - for embedding...
Descartes B2B API Connectivity
Real-time B2B connectivity over the Descartes Global Logistics Network, complementing traditional EDI. Provides synchronous request/response integrations for marketplace connect...
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 six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate 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.
Descartes Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Descartes Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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 Systems Group — 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
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 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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