LaborUp
LaborUp is an AI-powered recruiting platform for American manufacturing, connecting skilled industrial workers — machinists, CNC programmers, welders, and maintenance technicians — with manufacturing employers. The platform combines voice-first AI screening, skills verification, and constraint-aware matching with dedicated recruiter support, and claims 5-10x faster hiring, more than 50% lower cost than traditional staffing agencies, 3x better post-hire retention, and a proprietary network of 25,000+ vetted workers. Founded by Simba Jonga, LaborUp raised $7.74M ($1.935M pre-seed plus a $5.8M seed announced in August 2025) led by NVP with Torch Capital, Threshold, Heartland VC, Daybreak, Westbound, Marketplace Capital, and Market Square Ventures. Early traction is concentrated in the Knoxville, Tennessee manufacturing corridor and in aerospace, shipbuilding, and critical infrastructure. As of July 2026 LaborUp publishes no public API, developer portal, or specification; the product is delivered as a hosted web and mobile application.
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 LaborUp the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — LaborUp scores 15.6/100 (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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile LaborUp
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for LaborUp. 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 1
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 LaborUp — 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
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
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 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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