The Direct Index
The Direct Index provides an independent, open‑source platform that scans any business website to determine whether AI agents can discover, read, and act on its content. It offers a free scanner, city indexes, and open data APIs that expose measurement results and raw site data for developers and researchers.
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 The Direct Index the way a machine reads it — 25 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 — The Direct Index scores 25.8/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 34/100 (agent ready). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
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How we profile The Direct Index
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Direct Index. 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 23
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.
The Direct Index Ask API
The Ask API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for ask.
The Direct Index Assistants.json API
The Assistants.json API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for assistants.json.
The Direct Index Badge API
The Badge API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for badge.
The Direct Index Brand API
The Brand API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for brand.
The Direct Index Brands API
The Brands API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for brands.
The Direct Index City API
The City API from The Direct Index — 8 operation(s) for city.
The Direct Index Compare API
The Compare API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for compare.
The Direct Index Countries API
The Countries API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for countries.
The Direct Index Country API
The Country API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for country.
The Direct Index Data API
The Data API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for data.
The Direct Index Deep API
The Deep API from The Direct Index — 2 operation(s) for deep.
The Direct Index Direct API
The Direct API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for direct.
The Direct Index Direct.json API
The Direct.json API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for direct.json.
The Direct Index Editions API
The Editions API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for editions.
The Direct Index Go API
The Go API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for go.
The Direct Index MCP API
The Mcp API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for mcp.
The Direct Index Plan API
The Plan API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for plan.
The Direct Index R API
The R API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for r.
The Direct Index Rankings API
The Rankings API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for rankings.
The Direct Index Scan API
The Scan API from The Direct Index — 2 operation(s) for scan.
The Direct Index Search API
The Search API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for search.
The Direct Index Site API
The Site API from The Direct Index — 1 operation(s) for site.
The Direct Index Vendors API
The Vendors API from The Direct Index — 2 operation(s) for vendors.
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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.
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 The Direct Index — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 2
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 1
The organization behind the API
Other 3
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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This is an independent, third-party profile of The Direct Index, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.
The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.
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