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Sourceful

Sourceful is a Manchester, United Kingdom packaging technology company that began as a sustainable packaging marketplace connecting brands with vetted manufacturers and offering data-driven carbon footprint, life-cycle, and recyclability metrics for every packaging design. Founded in 2020 by Wing Chan and Charlie Bradshaw, the company raised roughly $32M from investors including Index Ventures, Coatue, and Eka Ventures, and grew to over 100 employees serving climate-conscious consumer brands. Since 2024–2025 Sourceful has pivoted toward AI-powered visual design for packaging, releasing Sourceful 3.0 and Riverflow 1, a proprietary image-editing foundation model marketed as state-of-the-art for design-grade, print-ready packaging artwork. The current product line covers AI logo design, packaging design, AI product photography, image editing, packaging ranges, flavor/variant ranges, brand moodboards, and (announced) product mockups and social ads. Sourceful is ISO 42001 certified for AI management. As of this profile the company does not publish a public developer API, SDK, OpenAPI specification, or open-source GitHub organization for the packaging/design platform, and the original sustainable-packaging marketplace surface and supplier-facing carbon footprint API have been superseded by the AI design product; there is no Sourceful developer portal at this time. The unrelated github.com/sourceful organization belongs to Pony Foo, not this company, and sourceful.energy is a separate distributed-energy-resource platform unrelated to Sourceful Ltd.

human only

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.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Sourceful 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 — Sourceful scores 10.9/100 (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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 10.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · 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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

How we profile Sourceful

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

Sourceful Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Sourceful Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001

SECURITY

Resources

Every other property we hold for Sourceful — 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 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

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