Kobalt
Kobalt Music Group is an independent music rights management and administrative publishing company founded in 2000 by Willard Ahdritz, operating from New York and London. Unlike traditional publishers it administers copyrights rather than owning them, running Kobalt Music Publishing, a neighbouring rights division, and AMRA, the digital-first collection society it acquired in 2014. Royalty and rights processing runs on KTech, the rights and content management platform built to independently serve both Kobalt Music Publishing and AMRA at the scale of billions of music micro-transactions, with songwriters and rightsholders viewing statements and analytics through the authenticated Kobalt Portal. Kobalt publishes no public developer program: a 2026-07-19 probe found no developer portal, no API documentation, no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI description, and no API discovery documents under /.well-known/. Integration is arranged commercially through Kobalt or KTech rather than through a self-service API.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
API Evangelist profiles Kobalt 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 — Kobalt scores 10.8/100 (minimal), 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 Kobalt
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Kobalt. 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 Kobalt — 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 2
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 4
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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