42Maru

42Maru is a South Korean AI deep-tech company building a Deep Semantic TA (Text Analytics) and QA (Question Answering) platform that understands the true intent behind a user's question and returns a single answer drawn from large sets of unstructured documents. Its cognitive-search stack pairs document retrieval with Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC) and is delivered as enterprise chatbots (CHAT42), question-answering engines (QA42), natural-language processing (NL42), and the Platform42 SaaS. 42Maru ranked #1 on Stanford's SQuAD 2.0 machine-reading benchmark, won an AWS AI Challenge award, and is a Techstars London alumnus. It was added to the API Evangelist network from the Techstars portfolio and enriched from its public marketing site, GitHub organizations, and gitbook documentation; no public REST API, OpenAPI, first-party SDK, or /.well-known discovery surface was found — Platform42 API access appears to be provisioned per enterprise customer.

42Maru is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Question Answering.

42Maru’s developer surface includes documentation, engineering blog, support, and 6 more developer resources.

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12.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceMachine LearningNatural Language ProcessingQuestion AnsweringCognitive SearchMachine Reading ComprehensionChatbotEnterprise SearchDeep Learning

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Composite quality — 12.2/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.8 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: 42maru
name: 42Maru
description: '42Maru is a South Korean AI deep-tech company building a Deep Semantic TA (Text Analytics) and QA (Question
  Answering) platform that understands the true intent behind a user''s question and returns a single answer drawn from large
  sets of unstructured documents. Its cognitive-search stack pairs document retrieval with Machine Reading Comprehension (MRC)
  and is delivered as enterprise chatbots (CHAT42), question-answering engines (QA42), natural-language processing (NL42),
  and the Platform42 SaaS. 42Maru ranked #1 on Stanford''s SQuAD 2.0 machine-reading benchmark, won an AWS AI Challenge award,
  and is a Techstars London alumnus. It was added to the API Evangelist network from the Techstars portfolio and enriched
  from its public marketing site, GitHub organizations, and gitbook documentation; no public REST API, OpenAPI, first-party
  SDK, or /.well-known discovery surface was found — Platform42 API access appears to be provisioned per enterprise customer.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/42maru/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://42maru.ai/media/images/42MARU_pabikon.2e16d0ba.fill-64x64.png
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-17'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Question Answering
- Cognitive Search
- Machine Reading Comprehension
- Chatbot
- Enterprise Search
- Deep Learning
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://42maru.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://github.com/42maru/saas-eng-gitbook
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/42maru/saas-eng-gitbook
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.42maru.ai/en/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.42maru.ai/en/contact/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/42maru
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/42maru-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/42maru-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/42maru-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence