# AgLocal

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/aglocal/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

AgLocal was a venture-backed food-technology startup (founded 2011 by Mike Hsieh and Naithan Jones, Kansas City / San Francisco) that built an online marketplace connecting small family ranchers and sustainable meat producers directly with buyers. It launched in 2013 as a ranch-to-restaurant marketplace serving chefs, then pivoted in 2014 to a consumer-facing monthly meat subscription service. Backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Chicago Ventures and others across roughly $3.8M in funding, the company shut down in 2015, stating it could not reach a self-sustaining business model. It is added to the API Evangelist network as an a16z portfolio lead; the company is now defunct and its domain (aglocal.com) is parked/for sale, so no live developer portal, API, or specifications exist to enrich.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Agriculture, Food, Marketplace, Meat, Subscription, E-Commerce, Sustainability, Defunct, a16z Portfolio

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/aglocal/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.