Propel
Propel, Inc. is a Brooklyn-based fintech company, founded in 2014, that builds financial tools for Americans with low income. Its free consumer app, Providers (formerly Fresh EBT), is used by more than five million people each month to check their SNAP/EBT balances instantly across 49 states, Washington D.C., and U.S. territories, secure their benefits card with locking and fraud monitoring, find exclusive offers and discounts on groceries, phone plans, internet, utilities, and healthcare, receive alerts about benefit policy changes, browse local job and gig-work listings, and predict deposit dates. Propel is a consumer-facing mobile product and does not publish a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; it operates a public status page and a signed RFC 9116 security.txt for coordinated vulnerability disclosure. The company is backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Nyca Partners, Kleiner Perkins, JPMorgan Chase, Salesforce Ventures, the Financial Health Network, and Flourish Ventures.
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 Propel the way a machine reads it — 2 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Propel scores 15.7/100 (emerging), with a separate agent-readiness read of 7/100 (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 Propel
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Propel. 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 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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Propel — 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 4
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 2
The organization behind the API
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