LendUp
LendUp was a San Francisco consumer-lending fintech founded in 2011 and backed by GV and QED Investors, offering single-payment and installment loans to subprime borrowers alongside a gamified "LendUp Ladder" program that promised cheaper credit and credit-bureau reporting as borrowers repaid. LendUp Loans LLC ceased lending operations in January 2022 following Consumer Financial Protection Bureau enforcement actions over misleading marketing and pricing claims. The lendup.com domain is now operated by an unrelated company, LendUp LLC of Dover, Delaware, which runs a consumer loan-matching and financial-education site connecting borrowers to licensed lenders for a referral fee; it states it has no corporate, ownership, or operational relationship to the former lender and no access to its customer data. Neither entity publishes a public API, developer portal, SDKs, or any machine-readable discovery surface.
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 LendUp 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 — LendUp scores 11.8/100 (minimal), 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 LendUp
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for LendUp. 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 LendUp — 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 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 2
The organization behind the API
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