Industrial Manufacturing APIs and the AI Integration Gap
A recent inventory of 421 industrial manufacturing and automation providers revealed that only five of the 56 firms explicitly marketed as API‑ready publish publicly discoverable OpenAPI specifications. The dominant tags—Manufacturing, Industrial, Supply Chain—describe business focus rather than API depth, while operational tags like SCADA, MES, and OPC UA appear sparsely. The analysis identifies three API layers, with data platforms such as Cognite and AVEVA PI already offering robust REST interfaces suitable for AI agents. The stark shortage of open, machine‑readable APIs highlights a critical bottleneck for AI integration in the sector.
Stripe Through the Lens of API Evangelist
Stripe’s developer portal showcases unprecedented transparency, featuring $1.9 trillion in 2025 payment volume, over 500 million daily API requests, and support for 135 currencies. The homepage highlights that 50% of the Fortune 100 and 78% of the Forbes AI 50 already run on Stripe,...
API Evangelist Scores 83% Agent-Ready — And the Last 17% Doesn't Apply
Cloudflare launched isitagentready.com, a scanner that rates a site’s readiness for AI agents. API Evangelist scored 83 out of 100, earning a Level 5 Agent‑Native rating, the second‑highest tier. The site achieved perfect scores in discoverability, markdown content negotiation, and AI‑bot...
83 of the Fortune 100 Have a Developer or API Portal
An analysis of the Fortune 100 reveals that 83 companies now maintain a public developer, API, or data portal. The distribution spans Big Tech, financial services, healthcare, retail, and logistics, though the sophistication of these portals varies widely. While the...
Seeing MCP
The author highlights a rapid wave of MCP (Machine‑Centric Platform) API expansion that dwarfs earlier REST, GraphQL, gRPC, and Kafka growth. Existing documentation and discovery tools lag, leaving enterprises without clear visibility for governance. A prototype called “See” now generates...
A Roundup of US Federal Agencies and Their APIs
The API Evangelist has compiled a comprehensive catalog of public‑facing APIs, RSS feeds, and data surfaces for 211 U.S. federal agencies, now hosted in a dedicated GitHub repository. Each entry links to a machine‑readable APIs.yml file and, where available, OpenAPI...
Artificial Intelligence Choosing My Tools and Services
While building a signup form for CentralPark.Guide, the author used Claude, an AI assistant, to generate a Cloudflare Worker that processes form submissions and emails. Claude prompted the author to choose an email provider, defaulting to Resend because of its...
Within the Enterprise Mindset There Are No Solutions, Just Stories
The piece argues that enterprise leaders respond to narratives, not pure technology, when evaluating AI and API integration. It highlights how political storylines—like references to Elon Musk, Doge, or Trump—can sway C‑suite risk assessments more than technical merits. The author...
Publishing Plans, Rate Limits, and FinOps for 3,837 API Providers
The API Evangelist project released 11,511 new YAML files covering plans, rate limits, and FinOps data for 3,837 API providers—about 75% of its GitHub repos. The artifacts follow the API Commons Plans schema and are indexed via APIs.json, creating a...
A Bridge Between Human and AI on Your Documentation
AssemblyAI has upgraded its developer documentation portal with a suite of AI‑enhanced tools. A new “Copy Page” dropdown lets users export pages as Markdown for large language models, ask questions via an AI assistant, and open the content directly in...
We Standardized the API. We Didn't Standardize the Application.
The author spent three hours creating applications on six popular developer portals—Notion, Slack, LinkedIn, GitHub, Cloudflare, and Google—to map the onboarding experience. Each platform uses a different terminology, configuration layout, credential model, and verification process for what is essentially the...
Guardrails, Not Gates: Supreet Nagi on Taming the API Jungle
Supreet Nagi’s new handbook, From Chaos to Connectivity, frames enterprise API estates as either a jungle or a highway, highlighting the chronic sprawl caused by opaque governance. He illustrates how the traditional Architecture Review Board, meeting bi‑weekly, creates bottlenecks that...
Learning About Standards via Cloudflare Radar AI Insights
Cloudflare has released an AI Insights feature on its Radar platform that showcases how a suite of web standards can be used to automate and control non‑human traffic. The update highlights extensions to robots.txt for AI usage, link‑header relationships, OAuth...
Not a Single API Evangelist Post in March
Kin Lane, the voice behind API Evangelist, admits he published no posts in March, citing an intensive focus on generative‑AI tools Claude and Gemini for his company Naftiko. While the AI agents accelerated project delivery, they also drained his creative...
There Is a Lot of Knowledge and Wisdom Packed Into Speakeasy's Agent Skills
Speakeasy has released a detailed catalog of Agent Skills that codify the actions needed to generate, test, and manage SDKs and Terraform providers from OpenAPI specs. The list includes steps such as starting new projects, diagnosing failures, customizing runtime behavior,...