API Evangelist

We built an AI agents market for the Kin Score this week, and it is the first market where the strongest evidence is something a provider publishes about itself.

I hear the same thing in almost every enterprise conversation I have. We can’t have a public developer portal. We can’t publish our API documentation. Our customers are big, our deals are negotiated, our partners sign agreements first, and nothing about our business works out in the open. I understand where it comes from. But I want to start answering it with something other tha...

One of the markets we built this week isn’t an industry at all. It cuts across the whole catalog: which API providers publish their own official SDKs.

DeepSeek open-sourced DeepInfer last week, the inference framework that powers its own large-scale production services. It is Apache 2.0 licensed, it runs DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash on NVIDIA’s newest GPUs and Huawei’s Ascend NPUs, and most of the README is the kind of thing inference engineers will spend the next month arguing about: optimized kernels, expert parallelism, draft-token ...

When you build a market layer out of public registers, you quickly find two very different kinds of entry, and the Kin Score has to treat them differently.