# Kardinal ARO API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/kardinal/aro/  
**Provider:** Kardinal — https://apis.io/providers/kardinal/  
**Base URL:** https://app.kardinal.ai/api/v2  
**Documentation:** https://developers.kardinal.ai/

Kardinal ARO API is published by [Kardinal](https://apis.io/providers/kardinal/) on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network, described by a machine-readable OpenAPI specification. Tagged areas include Route Optimization, Vehicle Routing, Logistics, and Optimization. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes an OpenAPI specification, API documentation, an API reference, a getting-started guide, and authentication docs.

The Kardinal Always-on Route Optimization (ARO) v2 REST API. Create and update optimization plans, manage the resources (vehicles) and orders (stops) inside them, drive the optimization lifecycle, and retrieve the computed solution with per-resource tours, waypoint arrival times, objectives and unaffected stops. Authentication is JWT bearer, with password login, MFA/OTP, Azure and Google SSO, and a refresh-token flow. Access is provisioned by invitation per customer environment; there is no self-serve sign-up.

## Machine-readable artifacts (10)

- **OpenAPI** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/openapi/kardinal-aro-openapi-original.yml
- **Documentation** — https://developers.kardinal.ai/
- **APIReference** — https://developers.kardinal.ai/api-reference/authenticate/request-a-password-token
- **GettingStarted** — https://developers.kardinal.ai/getting-started/first-api-call
- **Authentication** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/authentication/kardinal-authentication.yml
- **ErrorCatalog** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/errors/kardinal-error-codes.yml
- **DataModel** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/data-model/kardinal-data-model.yml
- **ToolCrosswalk** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/mcp/kardinal-tool-crosswalk.yml
- **Overlay** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/overlays/kardinal-aro-overlay.yaml
- **APIsJSON** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kardinal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml

## Tags

Route Optimization, Vehicle Routing, Logistics, Optimization

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/apis/kardinal/aro/). The API's provider profile, Kin Score and agent-readiness rating are at https://apis.io/providers/kardinal/.