Vouch
Vouch is a San Francisco, California business insurance broker and risk advisor purpose-built for high-growth startups and the venture ecosystem. Founded in 2018 by Sam Hodges and Travis Hedge and backed by investors including Ribbit Capital, SVB Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Y Combinator, and MS&AD Ventures, Vouch offers a tailored portfolio of commercial coverages — Directors & Officers (D&O), Errors & Omissions (E&O / Tech E&O / Professional Services E&O), Cyber, Employment Practices Liability (EPL), General Liability, Business Property, Fiduciary, Crime, and contract-required coverages — sold to technology, healthcare and life sciences, financial services, and professional services companies. The business model is broker-of-record commissions and, since 2021, a Vouch-owned insurance carrier underwriting select lines. Vouch is best known in the developer community for its embedded insurance program, which lets ecosystem partners (Carta, StartupOS, and similar founder platforms) pre-fill applications, surface quotes, and bind coverage inline via Vouch's partner API. Public developer documentation, an OpenAPI specification, and a self-serve sandbox are not exposed; the partner API and Vouch Corporate documentation (hosted on GitBook) are gated to onboarded venture, technology, and service-provider partners contracted through [email protected].
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 Vouch 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 — Vouch scores 17.2/100 (emerging), 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 Vouch
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Vouch. 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 Vouch — 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 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 9
The organization behind the API
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Other 13
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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