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Natural AI

Natural (natural.com) is the agentic payments platform: one API for AI agents, apps, and businesses to send, receive, and manage money. Agents get FDIC-insured wallets, credit lines, and the ability to pay or request funds by email, phone, @handle, party, or agent ID, plus card issuing, merchant acceptance, and PCI-compliant voice payments. The REST API (api.natural.com, Bearer auth, JSON:API envelope) is complemented by first-party Python and TypeScript SDKs, a `natural` CLI, and a hosted Model Context Protocol server at mcp.natural.com exposing 24 intent-shaped tools with OAuth 2.1 + PKCE. Natural was surfaced as a portfolio company of Forerunner Ventures and enriched into the API Evangelist network.

agent native

Solid contracts, transparent operations, and an easy start — typically complete on four or five facets with one clear soft spot.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Natural AI the way a machine reads it — 22 machine-readable artifacts across 15 APIs, 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 — Natural AI scores 63.0/100 (strong), with a separate agent-readiness read of 90/100 (agent native). 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 — 63.0/100 · strong
Contract Quality 16.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 15.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 6.8 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Regulatory · Payments 13.1 / 15
Agent readiness — 90/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 6 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Natural AI

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Natural AI. 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.

APIs 15

Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Natural AI Agent Keys API

Agent key management

Natural AI Agents API

Agent management

Natural AI API Keys API

API key management

Natural AI Approvals API

Approval review

Natural AI Customers API

Customer management

Natural AI Events API

Webhook event log

Natural AI External Accounts API

Linked external bank accounts

Natural AI Invitations API

Party invitation management

Natural AI Parties API

Party and organization management

Natural AI PaymentRequests API

Payment request management

Natural AI Payments API

Payment management

Natural AI Transactions API

Transaction activity and history

Natural AI Transfers API

Deposits and withdrawals

Natural AI Wallets API

Wallet management

Natural AI Webhooks API

Webhook endpoint management

Scroll within the panel for all 15 ·

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

natural-ai-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Natural Ai Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

Not every API is request/response. AsyncAPI describes the event-driven and streaming side — the webhooks and channels — so the asynchronous half of the interface is documented the same way the synchronous half is.

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

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.

Natural Ai Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Natural Ai Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Natural Ai Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Natural Ai Agentic Access

76 operations · 43 acting · 6 human-in-the-loop

76 operations · 43 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Every other property we hold for Natural AI — 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.

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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