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SmartSimple

SmartSimple Software builds SmartSimple Cloud, a configurable cloud platform for grants management, research and government funding administration, corporate social responsibility (CSR), scholarships, and case management. The platform exposes three documented programmatic interfaces on each client instance - SmartConnect (a JSON-based RESTful API), an OData reporting API, and a legacy SOAP Web Services API - covering records (UTA Level 1/2/3), users, organizations, transactions, custom fields, and files. Access is instance-scoped - every customer runs on their own alias.smartsimple.com tenant and provisions an API user account or access token, so the documented endpoints are modeled against a customer instance rather than a single public gateway.

human only

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles SmartSimple the way a machine reads it — 12 machine-readable artifacts across 7 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 — SmartSimple scores 27.4/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 27.4/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 20
Commercial Clarity 11.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 4.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 10.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile SmartSimple

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for SmartSimple. 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 7

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.

SmartSimple SmartConnect Records API

Get, list, and update (create) records stored in SmartSimple's Universal Tracking Application (UTA) at Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 - the grant applications, reviews, and sub-r...

SmartSimple SmartConnect Users API

Get, list, and update the people (applicants, reviewers, contacts, and internal staff) in a SmartSimple instance via the /API/1/user/ endpoint, including their standard and cust...

SmartSimple SmartConnect Organizations API

Get, list, and update the organizations (companies, grantee institutions, and accounts) in a SmartSimple instance via the /API/1/company/ endpoint, with their standard and custo...

SmartSimple SmartConnect Transactions API

Get, list, and update UTA transaction records (payments, disbursements, budget lines, and other transactional line items attached to grants) via the /API/1/transactions/ endpoin...

SmartSimple SmartConnect Files API

Download a single file, list the files on a record or field, and keyword-search across files using the SmartConnect Download File, List Files, and Search Files actions. Files ar...

SmartSimple OData Reporting API

Consume SmartSimple report data through OData V2, V3, and V4 services, with public (pub) endpoints for openly exposed data and private (pri) endpoints requiring basic authentica...

SmartSimple Web Services (SOAP) API

The legacy SOAP Web Services API, exposed per instance via a WSDL at /WS/services/UtaUpdate?wsdl (for example https://smart.smartsimple.biz/WS/services/UtaUpdate?wsdl). It preda...

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Pricing Plans 1

Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

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.

Smartsimple Rate Limits

4 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals let a buyer model the financial operations of an API before it's live. We profile them for the same reason we profile pricing: the money is part of the contract.

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

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.

Smartsimple Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Smartsimple Trust Center

ISO 27001, HIPAA

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for SmartSimple — 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

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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