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Kraken Technologies

Kraken Technologies is the United Kingdom energy technology company behind Kraken, the licensed cloud operating system for utilities. Founded in 2016 inside Octopus Energy and spun out as an independent business, Kraken says it supports more than 90 million customer accounts for licensees including E.ON Next, EDF, Origin, Tokyo Gas, National Grid, Good Energy, Plenitude, Energy Queensland, Essential Energy, Portsmouth Water and TalkTalk across electricity, gas, water and broadband. It sits one layer behind the utility rather than in front of the consumer: it does not hold a supply licence, does not settle in the wholesale market and does not publish grid or market data, so the retailers and networks it powers carry the regulatory obligations, not Kraken. Its API posture matches that position and is honestly closed. The Open Kraken programme publicly advertises APIs, events, embedded apps, Flow automation and an MCP-based AI access layer, but every reference surface is gated: docs.kraken.tech forces SSO login on every path, no base URL or endpoint is published anywhere, the Tako design-system package requires a private npm token issued by email, and the Marketplace runs under signed access-and-use terms. There is no self-serve developer signup, no consumer data-portability API of its own, and no open market data.

Kraken Technologies is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.

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. The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kraken Technologies is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.

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