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80,000 Hours

80,000 Hours is an independent nonprofit, founded in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill out of Oxford, that provides free research and support to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems. The name refers to the roughly 80,000 hours a typical person works over their lifetime. It publishes an evidence-based career guide, in-depth problem profiles, a long-form podcast, and one-on-one advising, and runs a curated high-impact job board at jobs.80000hours.org. Since 2016 it has ranked helping navigate the transition to advanced AI as its top priority. It is a content and career-advice organization rather than an API producer; no public developer API is published, though it does serve a machine-readable llms.txt index of its content.

80,000 Hours is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Nonprofit, Careers, Career Advice, and Effective Altruism.

80,000 Hours’ developer surface includes engineering blog, signup flow, support, and 11 more developer resources.

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14.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyNonprofitCareersCareer AdviceEffective AltruismJob BoardAI SafetyResearchPodcastContent

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 14.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · 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 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

80 000 Hours Domain Security

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Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

CareerGuide
CareerGuide

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Podcast
Podcast
 ProblemProfiles
ProblemProfiles
 JobBoard
JobBoard
 App
App

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: 80-000-hours
name: 80,000 Hours
description: 80,000 Hours is an independent nonprofit, founded in 2011 by Benjamin Todd and William MacAskill out of Oxford,
  that provides free research and support to help people use their careers to help solve the world's most pressing problems.
  The name refers to the roughly 80,000 hours a typical person works over their lifetime. It publishes an evidence-based career
  guide, in-depth problem profiles, a long-form podcast, and one-on-one advising, and runs a curated high-impact job board
  at jobs.80000hours.org. Since 2016 it has ranked helping navigate the transition to advanced AI as its top priority. It
  is a content and career-advice organization rather than an API producer; no public developer API is published, though it
  does serve a machine-readable llms.txt index of its content.
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x-backed-by:
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- Careers
- Career Advice
- Effective Altruism
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- Podcast
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- type: Website
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- type: Podcast
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- type: CareerGuide
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- type: ProblemProfiles
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- type: JobBoard
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- type: App
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- type: SignUp
  url: https://80000hours.org/newsletter/
- type: Support
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- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://80000hours.org/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://80000hours.org/privacy-policy/
- type: LLMsTxt
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
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x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
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