Francis Medical
Francis Medical is a privately held medical device company headquartered in Maple Grove, Minnesota, founded in 2018 by Michael Hoey and named for his father, who died of prostate cancer in 1991. It develops the Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation System, a transurethral outpatient platform that ablates targeted prostate tissue using the thermal energy stored in sterile water vapor delivered in short bursts through a catheter, with the aim of treating localized disease while avoiding the incontinence and sexual dysfunction associated with radical prostatectomy and radiation. The company received FDA Breakthrough Device Designation in 2023 and 510(k) clearance for prostate tissue ablation in December 2025, and it is running the VAPOR 1 and VAPOR 2 clinical studies alongside a long-term registry; it has signalled intent to extend the same water vapor platform to bladder and kidney cancer. Francis Medical has raised roughly $160 million to date, including an $80 million Series C in January 2025 co-led by Solas BioVentures and Arboretum Ventures, with earlier participation from Coloplast. It is led by president and CEO Mike Kujak. Francis Medical publishes a physician locator, an electronic instructions-for-use (eIFU) library and a coordinated vulnerability disclosure policy for its devices and embedded software, but operates no public developer program, API documentation, or machine-readable API contract.
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 Francis Medical 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 — Francis Medical scores 14.5/100 (emerging), 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
Francis Medical's own Product Security page states that "our current product offerings do not include network-connected components" — the Vanquish Water Vapor Ablation System is a capital console and single-use catheter operated at the bedside, so there is no developer portal, no api./developer./docs./portal. hostname in DNS, and the only machine-readable JSON on the host is the marketing site's stock WordPress core REST API at /wp-json/.
This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Francis Medical 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://www.francismedical.com/product-security/→ HTTP 200https://www.francismedical.com/openapi.json→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/swagger.json→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/graphql→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/llms.txt→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/.well-known/agent-card.json→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/.well-known/agent.json→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/.well-known/security.txt→ HTTP 404https://www.francismedical.com/wp-json/→ HTTP 200
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
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How we profile Francis Medical
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Francis Medical. 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.
Security 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Francis Medical — 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
Access & Security 3
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 5
The organization behind the API
Other 8
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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