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Kalderos

Kalderos is a Chicago-based healthcare technology company, founded in 2016, that built what it calls the first Drug Discount Management platform. It helps pharmaceutical manufacturers, covered entities (safety-net healthcare providers), and state Medicaid programs manage compliance across U.S. drug discount programs — most notably 340B — using data, AI, and machine learning to identify noncompliant or duplicate discounts, streamline good-faith-inquiry and dispute resolution, and move rebates transparently between stakeholders. Marquee products include 340B Pay, the Truzo rebate-payment platform, Discount Hub for covered entities, and MDRP and Commercial Discount Monitoring for manufacturers. Kalderos was acquired by Model N in 2024 to expand Model N's revenue-management and 340B capabilities for life sciences. This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Bain Capital Ventures and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline; Kalderos operates a customer-facing application (app.kalderos.com) and previously published developer API documentation that is no longer resolvable post-acquisition.

human only

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Kalderos the way a machine reads it — 3 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 — Kalderos scores 26.3/100 (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.

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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 26.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Regulatory · Health 9.8 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Kalderos

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kalderos. 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 3

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.

Kalderos Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Kalderos Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Kalderos Trust Center

SOC 1, SOC 2, SOC 3, ISO 27001, NIST SP 800-53, HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Kalderos — 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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

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