Pointy
Pointy was an Irish retail-technology startup (pointy.com), founded by Mark Cummins and Charles Bibby and backed by Seedcamp, that helped independent brick-and-mortar retailers put their in-store inventory online by connecting a simple barcode-scanning device or point-of-sale integration to a searchable online product page. Google acquired Pointy in 2020 and has since fully folded the product into Google's own tooling: pointy.com now redirects to Google Business Profile support, and the former Pointy app is now Google's Local Inventory app, which syncs in-store products to Google Search and Maps via POS systems such as Clover, Square, and Lightspeed. Pointy no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no standalone public API, developer portal, or SDKs; this API Evangelist profile is retained as a portfolio-lead record and historical marker rather than an active API provider.
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.
Pointy 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. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Pointy scores 6.8/100 (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
Resources
Every other property we hold for Pointy — 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.
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The organization behind the API
Pointy 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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