Aetion is a healthcare technology company that builds real-world evidence (RWE) software for biopharma, medical device manufacturers, payers and regulators. Its Aetion Evidence Platform (AEP) turns claims, electronic health record, registry, patient-reported and trial data into transparent, reproducible, regulatory-grade evidence, delivered as a set of applications: Discover for exploratory analysis, Substantiate for study implementation, Activate as a low-code plus hosted-code workbench, and Generate for synthetic data. Founded by two Harvard Medical School professors, Aetion was acquired by Datavant; the acquisition closed 11 July 2025 and Aetion now operates inside Datavant's Life Sciences business. As of this profile the aetion.com domain redirects wholesale to datavant.com and Aetion publishes no standalone developer program, public API reference or machine-readable specification.
Aetion is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Real-World Evidence, Healthcare, Life Sciences, and Clinical Research.
Aetion’s developer surface includes support and 6 more developer resources.
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Health regime, so
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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
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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):
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
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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):
aid: aetion
name: Aetion
description: 'Aetion is a healthcare technology company that builds real-world evidence (RWE) software for biopharma, medical
device manufacturers, payers and regulators. Its Aetion Evidence Platform (AEP) turns claims, electronic health record,
registry, patient-reported and trial data into transparent, reproducible, regulatory-grade evidence, delivered as a set
of applications: Discover for exploratory analysis, Substantiate for study implementation, Activate as a low-code plus hosted-code
workbench, and Generate for synthetic data. Founded by two Harvard Medical School professors, Aetion was acquired by Datavant;
the acquisition closed 11 July 2025 and Aetion now operates inside Datavant''s Life Sciences business. As of this profile
the aetion.com domain redirects wholesale to datavant.com and Aetion publishes no standalone developer program, public API
reference or machine-readable specification.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aetion/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- security
- url: https://aetion.com/
status: 301
note: declared website redirects to https://www.datavant.com/ — a different registrable domain (aetion.com -> datavant.com),
possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
generated: '2026-11-06'
method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/54075156?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Real-World Evidence
- Healthcare
- Life Sciences
- Clinical Research
- Health Data
- Data Analytics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
url: https://apis.io/providers/datavant/
name: Datavant
x-relationship: acquired
x-evidence: Founded by two Harvard Medical School professors, Aetion was acquired by Datavant; the acquisition closed 11
July 2025 and Aetion now operates inside Datavant's Life Sciences business.
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/aetion-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
url: https://aetion.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/aetion
- type: Support
url: https://support.aetion.com/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
url: https://www.datavant.com/privacy-policy
- type: SecondaryMarket
url: https://forgeglobal.com/aetion_stock/
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-06'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Aetion was absorbed into Datavant when the acquisition closed on 11 July 2025, and every path on aetion.com — including
/.well-known/* — now answers HTTP 301 into www.datavant.com, so there is no Aetion-origin developer surface left to read;
the only Aetion host still serving anything of its own is the customer support portal at support.aetion.com, a Salesforce
Experience Cloud community.
evidence:
- url: https://aetion.com/
status: 301
- url: https://aetion.com/technology/platform/
status: 301
- url: https://aetion.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 301
- url: https://support.aetion.com/
status: 503
- url: https://github.com/aetion
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-06'
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