Markets
The Kin Score has a third dimension: the market. A provider is read in its market, by who it integrates with, how deep those integrations go, and where the market publishes its own structure: partners' contracts, platform app stores, regulators' registers, standards bodies' directories, aggregators' coverage lists.
Leaders are grouped by position (gravity, coverage, core, standard...) and depth is only compared within a position. A provider that declares nothing we can read is undeclared, with no number.
Provisional. The Market layer is unweighted and is not part of the composite
or agent readiness. Leader lists will stay labelled provisional until the weights hold across weekly releases.
Workflows and their phrasing are generated by API Evangelist.
Bedrock markets measured by depth and structure
open market (workflows) with contract-named rails
Payments
25 measured
18 declare
1 covered
6 undeclared
gravity 4 · coverage 1 · regulated 2 · core 8 · mixed 1 · list 3 · undeclared 6
platform market (app stores)
Commerce and CRM
25 measured
25 declare
0 covered
0 undeclared
gravity 7 · coverage 1 · regulated 4 · core 3 · mixed 1 · list 7 · long-tail 2
regulated market (registers) plus aggregator coverage
Open Banking
24 measured
8 declare
3 covered
13 undeclared
gravity 1 · coverage 1 · regulated 3 · core 2 · list 4 · undeclared 13
standards and network market
Healthcare (FHIR)
24 measured
12 declare
3 covered1 distribution
8 undeclared
gravity 4 · standard 4 · core 1 · list 4 · long-tail 1 · distribution 1 · unknown 1 · undeclared 8
platform market (ledger app stores) plus connector coverage
Accounting and Finance Ops
25 measured
8 declare
0 covered2 distribution
15 undeclared
gravity 3 · coverage 3 · regulated 1 · list 1 · distribution 2 · undeclared 15
platform market (app stores) plus connector coverage
HR and Payroll
25 measured
10 declare
0 covered2 distribution
13 undeclared
gravity 5 · coverage 3 · core 2 · distribution 2 · undeclared 13
coverage market (aggregators publish the carriers they reach)
Shipping and Logistics
25 measured
3 declare
9 covered
13 undeclared
coverage 1 · covered 9 · list 1 · long-tail 1 · undeclared 13
standards market
Telecom Network APIs (CAMARA)
25 measured
8 declare
10 covered1 distribution
6 undeclared
coverage 7 · covered 1 · standard 9 · core 1 · distribution 1 · undeclared 6
coverage market (channel and delivery-provider enums)
Communications (CPaaS)
25 measured
16 declare
7 covered
2 undeclared
coverage 13 · covered 7 · regulated 1 · core 1 · mixed 1 · undeclared 2
platform and standards market
Identity and Auth
25 measured
2 declare
8 covered2 distribution
13 undeclared
gravity 1 · standard 8 · core 1 · distribution 2 · undeclared 13
standards market (OpenTelemetry) plus platform catalogs
Observability
25 measured
6 declare
13 covered3 distribution
3 undeclared
gravity 2 · standard 13 · core 3 · long-tail 1 · distribution 3 · undeclared 3
standards market (RESO) plus property-management stores
Real Estate and Proptech
25 measured
7 declare
3 covered1 distribution
14 undeclared
coverage 4 · standard 3 · long-tail 3 · distribution 1 · undeclared 14
coverage market plus regulator register
Crypto and Digital-Asset Exchanges
25 measured
1 declare
15 covered2 distribution
7 undeclared
coverage 1 · covered 9 · regulated 6 · distribution 2 · undeclared 7
platform market (core-system marketplaces) plus carrier coverage
Insurance and Insurtech
25 measured
4 declare
1 covered
20 undeclared
gravity 3 · coverage 1 · covered 1 · undeclared 20
coverage market (OEMs, charge points) plus telematics app stores
Automotive and Mobility
25 measured
4 declare
10 covered
11 undeclared
gravity 2 · coverage 2 · covered 9 · standard 1 · undeclared 11
coverage market (utility data) plus standards market (DER)
Energy and Utilities
25 measured
2 declare
6 covered
17 undeclared
coverage 2 · covered 4 · regulated 1 · standard 1 · undeclared 17
distribution layer across every market (sellers, not integrations)
Cloud Marketplaces (distribution)
25 measured
1 declare
3 covered21 distribution
0 undeclared
covered 1 · standard 2 · core 1 · distribution 21
shape market (the AWS S3 API re-served; convergence by imitation, graded by declared degree)
Object Storage
32 measured
0 declare
5 covered4 distribution
23 undeclared
covered 5 · distribution 4 · undeclared 23
de jure shape (OCI Distribution Spec) with a conformance register
Container Registries (OCI Distribution)
20 measured
0 declare
9 covered
11 undeclared
covered 2 · standard 6 · distribution 1 · undeclared 11
shape market (the PostgreSQL wire protocol re-served; convergence by imitation, graded by declared degree)
Databases (PostgreSQL wire)
29 measured
0 declare
3 covered5 distribution
21 undeclared
covered 1 · standard 2 · distribution 5 · undeclared 21
shape market (the Kafka wire protocol re-served; convergence by imitation, proxies mediate)
Streaming (Apache Kafka protocol)
24 measured
0 declare
6 covered4 distribution
14 undeclared
covered 2 · regulated 1 · standard 3 · distribution 4 · undeclared 14
Frontier markets measured by movement between weekly snapshots (draft)
frontier, converging by imitation
Typed Decision Models
10 measured
3 declare
6 covered1 distribution
0 undeclared
coverage 1 · covered 7 · core 1 · distribution 1 · 2 snapshot(s)
frontier, converging by mediation
AI Model Routing
31 measured
6 declare
24 covered
1 undeclared
coverage 5 · covered 25 · undeclared 1 · 1 snapshot(s)
frontier, two related de facto shapes (Elasticsearch and its OpenSearch fork), converging by imitation
Search API (Elasticsearch / OpenSearch shape)
25 measured
2 declare
5 covered2 distribution
16 undeclared
standard 5 · core 1 · list 1 · distribution 2 · undeclared 16 · 1 snapshot(s)