Pivot Bio
Pivot Bio is an agricultural biotechnology company headquartered in Berkeley, California with additional operations in St. Louis, Missouri. The company engineers naturally occurring soil microbes to fix atmospheric nitrogen on crop root systems, providing a biological alternative to synthetic nitrogen fertilizer that reduces nitrous-oxide emissions, nitrate runoff, and exposure to volatile fertilizer prices. Pivot Bio's product line includes PROVEN 40 and PROVEN G3 (corn and corn silage), RETURN (wheat and small grains), CERT-N (cotton), and RETAIN (sorghum). The company also operates N-OVATOR, an outcomes-based program that pays farmers for verified emissions reductions; the program reports having paid out more than $6M to growers since 2022 and contributing to over 1,050,000 metric tons of CO2e avoided. Pivot Bio was founded by Karsten Temme (CEO) and Alvin Tamsir. Investors include Breakthrough Energy Ventures, Temasek, DCVC, Generation Investment Management, Pavilion Capital, G2 Venture Partners, Bond, and others. Pivot Bio's product is the microbe, not an API; the company operates a farmer-facing Salesforce-based portal but does not publish a public developer API or SDK.
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API Evangelist profiles Pivot Bio 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 — Pivot Bio scores 8.9/100 (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 Pivot Bio
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Pivot Bio. 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 Pivot Bio — 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
Access & Security 1
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Learn 1
Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 9
The organization behind the API
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Other 10
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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