FiscalNote
FiscalNote is a policy intelligence platform that provides legislative, regulatory, and stakeholder data spanning Congress, all 50 U.S. states, and more than 100 countries. FiscalNote expanded its PolicyNote API to eliminate AI hallucinations in compliance workflows by providing primary-source verified policy data.
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 FiscalNote the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 13 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 — FiscalNote scores 58.5/100 (developing), with a separate agent-readiness read of 48/100 (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.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile FiscalNote
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for FiscalNote. 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 13
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.
FiscalNote Bills API
Access legislation and bill data from federal, state, and international jurisdictions.
FiscalNote Committees API
Access legislative committee records including membership and jurisdiction information.
FiscalNote Issues API
Manage and retrieve organizational issues for tracking policy topics and legislative priorities.
FiscalNote Labels API
Manage and retrieve labels used to categorize and organize legislation and policy items.
FiscalNote Legislation API
Access legislative data spanning Congress, all 50 U.S. states, and international jurisdictions.
FiscalNote Legislators API
Access legislator-specific data including voting records, sponsored legislation, and committee memberships.
FiscalNote Officials API
Access government official profiles including legislators, executives, and appointees.
FiscalNote Organizations API
Access government organization records including agencies, departments, and independent bodies.
FiscalNote Policy Intelligence API
Access AI-powered policy analysis, impact summaries, and monitoring signals for policy changes.
FiscalNote Presidential Transcripts API
Access the real-time presidential transcript feed delivering primary-source transcripts of presidential communications.
FiscalNote Regulations API
Access regulatory data including proposed and final rules across federal and state agencies.
FiscalNote Regulatory Documents API
Access regulatory documents including proposed rules, final rules, and notices from government agencies.
FiscalNote Stakeholders API
Access stakeholder intelligence including government officials and organizational relationships.
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Open Collections 4
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
FiscalNote AppData API
OPEN COLLECTIONFiscalNote Organization API
OPEN COLLECTIONFiscalNote People API
OPEN COLLECTIONFiscalNote PolicyNote API
OPEN COLLECTIONPricing 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.
Fiscalnote 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.
Fiscalnote Finops
FINOPSSemantic Vocabularies 1
JSON-LD contexts give the data shared meaning across APIs. We profile them because semantics are what let a machine reconcile 'customer' here with 'customer' somewhere else.
JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.
Fiscalnote Context
JSON-LDSpectral Rules 1
Governance rulesets we run against this provider's specs — the automated checks behind parts of the score. Profiling them makes the quality bar explicit and re-runnable, not a matter of opinion.
FiscalNote API Rules
SPECTRALJSON Schema 3
Standalone JSON Schema definitions describe the data models behind the API. We profile them so the shapes are validatable on their own — useful long after a single request is forgotten.
Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.
FiscalNote Legislation
JSON SCHEMAFiscalNote Government Official
JSON SCHEMAFiscalNote Presidential Transcript
JSON SCHEMASecurity 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 FiscalNote — 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 2
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 4
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 1
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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