The Human Utility
The Human Utility (formerly the Detroit Water Project) is a Y Combinator-backed not-for-profit organization founded in 2014 by Tiffani Ashley Bell whose mission is to preserve human dignity by increasing water affordability for families across the United States. It matches families who are behind on their water bills with donors who want to help, paying utility companies directly on their behalf through crowdfunded donations, community-building, and policy action. Operating in Detroit, Baltimore, and dozens of other cities, it has helped thousands of households avoid water shutoffs. The Human Utility runs a public-facing web application for donors and recipients rather than a developer-facing API product; its source code lives in the humanutility GitHub organization. This profile was surfaced as a Y Combinator portfolio company and enriched with identity and link details; no public API surface was found.
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.
API Evangelist profiles The Human Utility 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. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — The Human Utility scores 10.4/100 (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
How we profile The Human Utility
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for The Human Utility. 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 The Human Utility — 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.
Build 1
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 1
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
Company 1
The organization behind the API
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