Zeal
Zeal is an embedded, payroll-as-a-service platform. Its API lets software companies build their own payroll products - onboarding companies, employees, and 1099 contractors, running pay runs, disbursing pay, and handling tax calculation, filing, and compliance across all US jurisdictions - without becoming a payroll company themselves.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Zeal the way a machine reads it — 28 machine-readable artifacts across 1 API, 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 — Zeal scores 37.3/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 20/100 (agent aware). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.
Kin Score
How this is scored →scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
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How we profile Zeal
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Zeal. 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 10
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.
Zeal Companies API
The Companies API from Zeal — 3 operation(s) for companies.
Zeal Contractor Payments API
The Contractor Payments API from Zeal — 2 operation(s) for contractor payments.
Zeal Contractors API
The Contractors API from Zeal — 2 operation(s) for contractors.
Zeal Employee Check API
The Employee Check API from Zeal — 3 operation(s) for employee check.
Zeal Employees API
The Employees API from Zeal — 4 operation(s) for employees.
Zeal Funding API
The Funding API from Zeal — 1 operation(s) for funding.
Zeal Onboarding API
The Onboarding API from Zeal — 3 operation(s) for onboarding.
Zeal Pay Schedules API
The Pay Schedules API from Zeal — 3 operation(s) for pay schedules.
Zeal Reports API
The Reports API from Zeal — 4 operation(s) for reports.
Zeal Tax API
The Tax API from Zeal — 4 operation(s) for tax.
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Open Collections 12
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
API Collection
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Contractor Payments API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Contractors API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Employee Check API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Employees API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Funding API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Onboarding API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Pay Schedules API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Reports API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal Companies Tax API
OPEN COLLECTIONZeal API
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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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.
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.
Zeal Hq Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSFinOps 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.
Zeal Hq Finops
FINOPSSecurity 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.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Zeal — 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.
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 1
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 1
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 2
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 3
The organization behind the API
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