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Acumen Software

Acumen Software is a Johannesburg, South Africa software company founded in 2006 that builds highly configurable mobile SaaS for work, workforce and asset management. Its flagship product Forcelink is a mobile field-service ERP covering work management, workforce scheduling, asset and materials management, fleet, project, facilities, CRM and outage management (Powerlink) for power and water utilities, telecoms, transport, healthcare, forestry, mining, roads, waste, local government and municipal councils. A second product line, My Smart City, is a citizen-engagement platform that lets residents log municipal service faults, book vetted service providers, submit self-meter readings and pay municipal accounts, running on the same Forcelink back end. Both products are delivered as hosted multi-tenant web and mobile apps; the underlying REST surfaces are authenticated tenant APIs with no public developer program or published contract.

Acumen Software is listed with 3 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Field Service Management, Workforce Management, Asset Management, ERP, and Smart Cities.

Acumen Software’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 14 more developer resources.

19.7/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 5/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 75/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
3 APIs 1 MCP Servers
Field Service ManagementWorkforce ManagementAsset ManagementERPSmart CitiesLocal GovernmentUtilitiesMobileSouth AfricaMCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Energy & Utilities regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
  • Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
  • Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

MarketPositionDepthRegistered MCP serverDeclares compatibility
Field Service, Home Services and Trades undeclared - - -
Mobile SDK Publishers (Play SDK Index, CocoaPods, ADA certification) undeclared - - -

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)
measured — observed by APIs.io (wix)

APIs 3

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Forcelink REST API

Authenticated REST surface behind the Forcelink mobile field-service ERP, served from the vendor-hosted za2.forcelink.net tenant alongside the Forcelink web login and the Forcel...

My Smart City REST API

Authenticated REST surface consumed by the My Smart City citizen web app at app.mysmart.city. The web client's own JavaScript bundle names the base path /api/msc/rest/smartcitym...

Acumen Software Site MCP

Anonymous, remote MCP endpoint served on each of the three Acumen Software marketing domains. It is the Wix platform's Site MCP, not a first-party Acumen or Forcelink product AP...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Acumen Software Site MCP

Remote MCP server at www.acumensoft.net over streamable HTTP; 9 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Acumen Software API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Acumensoftware Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 1

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

Acumensoftware Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: acumensoftware
name: Acumen Software
description: Acumen Software is a Johannesburg, South Africa software company founded in 2006 that builds highly configurable
  mobile SaaS for work, workforce and asset management. Its flagship product Forcelink is a mobile field-service ERP covering
  work management, workforce scheduling, asset and materials management, fleet, project, facilities, CRM and outage management
  (Powerlink) for power and water utilities, telecoms, transport, healthcare, forestry, mining, roads, waste, local government
  and municipal councils. A second product line, My Smart City, is a citizen-engagement platform that lets residents log municipal
  service faults, book vetted service providers, submit self-meter readings and pay municipal accounts, running on the same
  Forcelink back end. Both products are delivered as hosted multi-tenant web and mobile apps; the underlying REST surfaces
  are authenticated tenant APIs with no public developer program or published contract.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://static.wixstatic.com/media/f3eb90_393c3a2fe853418ba367c5553bf6f8cc~mv2.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/acumensoftware/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-06'
modified: '2026-10-06'
position: Producing
tags:
- Field Service Management
- Workforce Management
- Asset Management
- ERP
- Smart Cities
- Local Government
- Utilities
- Mobile
- South Africa
- MCP
tags_raw:
- field-service-management
- workforce-management
- asset-management
- enterprise-resource-planning
- smart-cities
- local-government
- utilities
- mobile
- south-africa
- mcp
apis:
- name: Forcelink REST API
  description: Authenticated REST surface behind the Forcelink mobile field-service ERP, served from the vendor-hosted za2.forcelink.net
    tenant alongside the Forcelink web login and the Forcelink Android/iOS apps. Every path under /forcelink/rest answers
    HTTP 401 with {"error":"No authentication method supplied"} to anonymous callers, including paths that do not exist, so
    no operation list, schema or spec is publicly observable. Acumen Software publishes no developer portal, API reference
    or machine-readable contract for it.
  humanURL: https://www.forcelink.net/
  baseURL: https://za2.forcelink.net/forcelink/rest
  tags:
  - Field Service Management
  - Workforce Management
  - Asset Management
  - ERP
  - Utilities
  tags_raw:
  - field-service-management
  - workforce-management
  - asset-management
  - enterprise-resource-planning
  - utilities
  x-access: gated
  x-access-evidence:
  - url: https://za2.forcelink.net/forcelink/rest
    status: 401
    note: '{"error":"No authentication method supplied"}'
  - url: https://za2.forcelink.net/forcelink/rest/swagger.json
    status: 401
    note: Blanket auth filter; a 401 here is not evidence a spec exists behind it.
  - url: https://za2.forcelink.net/forcelink/openapi.json
    status: 404
  properties:
  - type: Login
    url: https://za2.forcelink.net/forcelink/login
- name: My Smart City REST API
  description: Authenticated REST surface consumed by the My Smart City citizen web app at app.mysmart.city. The web client's
    own JavaScript bundle names the base path /api/msc/rest/smartcitymanager/, and the same origin proxies through to the
    Forcelink application (an unmapped path under /api/msc returns the Forcelink Tomcat error page), confirming My Smart City
    runs on the Forcelink back end. Anonymous requests to the REST tree return HTTP 401; there is no public reference or spec.
  humanURL: https://www.mysmart.city/
  baseURL: https://app.mysmart.city/api/msc/rest
  tags:
  - Smart Cities
  - Local Government
  - Mobile
  tags_raw:
  - smart-cities
  - local-government
  - mobile
  x-access: gated
  x-access-evidence:
  - url: https://app.mysmart.city/api/msc/rest/
    status: 401
    note: '{"error":"No authentication method supplied"}'
  - url: https://app.mysmart.city/api/msc/v2/api-docs
    status: 404
    note: Returns the Forcelink application 404 page, evidencing the shared back end.
  properties:
  - type: Login
    url: https://app.mysmart.city/
- name: Acumen Software Site MCP
  description: Anonymous, remote MCP endpoint served on each of the three Acumen Software marketing domains. It is the Wix
    platform's Site MCP, not a first-party Acumen or Forcelink product API — the nine tools it returns are Wix site/content
    and Wix-docs tools, advertised by the Wix-generated llms.txt on each host. It is a real, callable agent surface on a domain
    the company controls; it does not expose Forcelink or My Smart City data.
  humanURL: https://www.acumensoft.net/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://www.acumensoft.net/_api/mcp
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agent-Native
  tags_raw:
  - mcp
  - agent-native
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/acumensoftware-mcp.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: https://www.acumensoft.net/_api/mcp
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: https://www.acumensoft.net/llms.txt
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: wix
  x-platform-surface: site-mcp
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.acumensoft.net/newsroom
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.acumensoft.net/blog-feed.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.acumensoft.net/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.acumensoft.net/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.forcelink.net/news-forcelink
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.forcelink.net/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.mysmart.city/termsandconditions
- type: Login
  url: https://za2.forcelink.net/forcelink/login
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/acumensoftware-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/acumensoftware-mcp.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/acumensoftware-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/acumensoftware-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/acumensoftware-domain-security.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/acumensoftware-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/acumensoftware-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/acumensoftware-rate-limits.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 12
  pass: local-v3

Acumen Software API — frequently asked questions

Does Acumen Software have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Acumen Software, including Forcelink REST API, My Smart City REST API and Acumen Software Site MCP.

Does Acumen Software have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Acumen Software: Remote MCP server at www.acumensoft.net over streamable HTTP; 9 tools listed.

Is the Acumen Software API ready for AI agents?

Acumen Software has a Kin Score of 19.7 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 4.7 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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