We Have Partner APIs, Not Public APIs -- Well, Your Competition Has Public APIs

When I walk a company through their Kin Score and the listing of their public API presence and agent readiness, I get a variety of responses depending on what the score is, but also on where they are in their API journey, and now their agentic journey. One thing I hear quite regularly is, “well, it doesn’t measure what we have, because we have a lot of partner APIs you can’t see.” To which I always reply, “well, your competition has those as public APIs.” This is a common theme I am seeing as I profile industries and areas (tags) as part of my API Evangelist work. Companies have an awareness o