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Red Beacon

Redbeacon was a consumer home-services marketplace that connected homeowners with local service professionals — for home repair, cleaning, landscaping, handyman and similar jobs — letting people describe a job and receive quotes from vetted local pros. The company was an early venture-backed startup (with Mayfield among its investors) and was acquired by The Home Depot in 2012. The standalone Redbeacon consumer service was subsequently wound down. As of this enrichment pass the redbeacon.com domain still resolves (Cloudflare DNS, Google Workspace email) but serves no live website (origin returns HTTP 525 / 400) and publishes no developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API surface. This profile is retained as a historical/portfolio-graph node.

API Evangelist profiles Red Beacon 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. The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

How we profile Red Beacon

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Red Beacon. 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 Red Beacon — 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.

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

← All providers · Data indexed from github.com/api-evangelist/red-beacon · machine-readable index on apis.io

Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of Red Beacon, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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