# Crunchbase — API Agent Score

> Score: 57/100 (Grade: D) | Domain: crunchbase.com | Rubric: 1.0.0 | Checked: July 24, 2026

Crunchbase scored 57/100 (D), classified "not-ai-ready".

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## Summary

- Overall: 57/100 (D)
- Classification: not-ai-ready

## Category Scores

- API Design: 79/100 (B)
- Developer Experience: 40/100 (F)
- Agent Discovery: 71/100 (B)
- Agent Understanding: 59/100 (D)
- Agent Usability: 45/100 (F)

## Check Results

### API Design

- [pass] Schema coverage & depth — .d.ts present on disk but not declared in package.json. Investigated: sdk 100%.
- [warn] Security & governance hygiene — security.txt present but missing or expired Expires. Investigated: wellknown 50%.
- [warn] Example coverage — README is present but has no runnable quickstart. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [skip] Machine-readable, versioned contract — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Auth declared & discoverable — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Developer Experience

- [fail] Self-service developer portal — No signup page detected across conventional paths (/signup, /sign-up, /register, /get-started, /console/signup, /dashboard/signup, /try, /try-free, /free, /free-trial, /start, /start-free). Investigated: docs 0%.
- [fail] Quickstart present — No quickstart/getting-started page found at the conventional paths. Investigated: docs 0%.
- [skip] Code samples in docs — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Description completeness — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Changelog published — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

### Agent Discovery

- [pass] Registry & SDK presence — Indexed on Context7 (websites/rapidapi_flybyapi1_api_crunchbase-extractor-full-api3, 139 snippets). Investigated: docs 100%, sdk 67%, cli 0%, mcp 0%, wellknown 0%.
- [warn] llms.txt present, valid & comprehensive — Could not test any pages; 41 failed to fetch. Investigated: docs 50%, sdk 0%.
- [warn] Docs reachable, not hard auth-gated — 41 JavaScript redirect(s) detected across 41 pages. Investigated: docs 50%.
- [warn] Crawlable / AEO — No sitemap discoverable via robots.txt or /sitemap.xml on the docs host. Investigated: wellknown 50%.

### Agent Understanding

- [warn] Agent-navigable, token-efficient docs — No pages support .md URLs (0/41 tested). Investigated: docs 69%.
- [fail] Agent instructions file (AGENTS.md) — No AGENTS.md at the site root or /.well-known/. Investigated: wellknown 0%.
- [skip] Machine-readable errors (RFC 9457) — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Operation purpose clarity — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Docs structured data — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Description consistency across surfaces — Only 1 surface description(s) with ≥6 tokens available; need at least 2 to compare.

### Agent Usability

- [warn] Sandbox separation — No test-mode flag or sandbox environment is exposed. Investigated: sdk 50%.
- [fail] Idempotency documented — No built-in retry machinery was found; transient failures are not retried. Investigated: sdk 0%.
- [fail] Runnable collection with test scripts — No public Postman workspace discovered for the org. Investigated: platform 0%.
- [skip] Rate-limit signaling — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.
- [skip] Pagination documented & consistent — No surface produced evidence for this capability in this run.

## Executive Summary

Crunchbase's API program shows strength in API design fundamentals and discoverability basics, but falls short in two areas that directly affect partner activation and agent reliability. Partners currently lack a self-service onboarding path and runnable examples, meaning they cannot get hands-on without a friction-heavy process — and AI agents building on the API have no structured instructions or idempotency guidance to operate safely. Prioritize closing the onboarding and agent-context gaps first, as they block every partner's path from evaluation to production.