Aligned News

Aligned News is an AI-native intelligence and news platform that synthesizes AI-powered briefings from 63 curated X lists tracking 100,000+ accounts in AI, tech, and science, and publishes Stories, Signals, Reports, and Bundles via web, REST API, and a downloadable MCP server for AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf.

Aligned News publishes 7 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Bundles API, News Feed API, Reports API, and 4 more. Tagged areas include Artificial Intelligence, News, Intelligence, MCP, and Signals.

The Aligned News catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Aligned News’ developer surface includes authentication, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, and 14 more developer resources.

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48.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 23/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessFreemiumSelf serve⚡ Free to try

1 APIs 14 Features

Artificial Intelligence News Intelligence MCP Signals

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 48.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 15.9 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.1 / 20

Access Clarity 12.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Contract Governance 1.2 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 23/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 4 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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APIs 8

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

Aligned News MCP Server

Reference Model Context Protocol server distributed as a single TypeScript file (mcp-server.ts) that proxies the Aligned News REST API to MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude Cod...

Aligned News Bundles API

Curated groupings of related stories around themes.

Aligned News News Feed API

All current stories grouped by section.

Aligned News Reports API

Trend deep-dives and longer-form analysis.

Aligned News Search API

Full-text search across stories, signals, and reports.

Aligned News Sections API

Topical sections used to organize stories.

Aligned News Signals API

Early pattern detections with editorial badges.

Aligned News Stories API

AI news stories curated and synthesized from monitored accounts.

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Aligned News Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Aligned News Rate Limits

5 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Aligned News Finops

FINOPS

Features 14

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

AI-powered intelligence from 63 curated X lists

Tracks 100,000+ accounts across AI, technology, and science

Stories surface breaking AI news with full body content

Signals provide early pattern detection with badges (bullish, caution, critical, signal, interview, vc, action)

Reports deliver trend deep-dives and summaries

Bundles group related stories around themes

Section-organized news feed across all topics

Full-text Search across stories, signals, and reports

REST API gated behind Pro tier with Bearer alnw_ API keys

Downloadable single-file MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf

Free tier exposes headlines, summaries, signal badges, and report summaries only

Pro tier unlocks full content + API access

Enterprise tier adds team access, priority support, and custom analysis

Built on Fly.io (edge), Supabase (data), Clerk (auth and billing), Stripe (payments)

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Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Aligned News Context

18 classes · 9 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Aligned News API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

1 fields

EXAMPLE

Aligned News Searchcontent Example

1 fields

EXAMPLE

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Security Posture 2

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

Aligned News Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Aligned News Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Aligned News Agentic Access

11 operations

11 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Signup

Signup

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

MCP Server

MCP Server

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrg

GitHubOrg

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 9

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

How It Works

Developers

Sitemap

Robots TXT

Research

Signals

Reports

Bundles

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: aligned-news
name: Aligned News
description: Aligned News is an AI-native intelligence and news platform that synthesizes AI-powered briefings from 63 curated
  X lists tracking 100,000+ accounts in AI, tech, and science, and publishes Stories, Signals, Reports, and Bundles via web,
  REST API, and a downloadable MCP server for AI tools like Claude, Cursor, and Windsurf.
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
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  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: high
  source:
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
position: Consuming
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created: '2026-05-06'
modified: '2026-07-25'
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
tags:
- Artificial Intelligence
- News
- Intelligence
- MCP
- Signals
tags_raw:
- AI
- News
- Intelligence
- MCP
- Signals
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  name: Aligned News MCP Server
  description: Reference Model Context Protocol server distributed as a single TypeScript file (mcp-server.ts) that proxies
    the Aligned News REST API to MCP-compatible AI tools like Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf. Exposes search_news,
    get_stories, get_story, get_signals, get_signal, get_reports, get_report, and get_sections tools, plus an aligned://news-feed
    resource. Authenticates with a user-provided ALIGNED_API_KEY (Bearer alnw_...).
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  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
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  - MCP
  - Agents
  - Tooling
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  - Agents
  - Tooling
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  - type: Authentication
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-bundles-api
  name: Aligned News Bundles API
  description: Curated groupings of related stories around themes.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Bundles
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: Authentication
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-news-feed-api
  name: Aligned News News Feed API
  description: All current stories grouped by section.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - News Feed
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
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  - type: Documentation
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  - type: Authentication
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  - type: Pricing
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-reports-api
  name: Aligned News Reports API
  description: Trend deep-dives and longer-form analysis.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Reports
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-reports-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
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  - type: Pricing
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  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-search-api
  name: Aligned News Search API
  description: Full-text search across stories, signals, and reports.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-sections-api
  name: Aligned News Sections API
  description: Topical sections used to organize stories.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Sections
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-sections-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: RateLimits
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  - type: FinOps
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aligned-news/refs/heads/main/finops/aligned-news-finops.yml
- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-signals-api
  name: Aligned News Signals API
  description: Early pattern detections with editorial badges.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Signals
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-signals-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
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- aid: aligned-news:aligned-news-stories-api
  name: Aligned News Stories API
  description: AI news stories curated and synthesized from monitored accounts.
  humanURL: https://alignednews.com/
  baseURL: https://alignednews.com/v1
  tags:
  - Stories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/aligned-news-stories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  - type: Authentication
    url: https://alignednews.com/account
  - type: Pricing
    url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - type: Plans
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  - type: FinOps
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: Aligned News
  url: https://alignednews.com/
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/aligned-news-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/aligned-news-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/aligned-news-authentication.yml
- url: https://alignednews.com/
  type: Website
- url: https://alignednews.com/how-it-works
  type: How It Works
- url: https://alignednews.com/getting-started
  type: GettingStarted
- url: https://alignednews.com/pricing
  type: Pricing
- url: https://alignednews.com/developers
  type: Developers
- url: https://alignednews.com/account
  type: Signup
- url: https://alignednews.com/sitemap.xml
  type: Sitemap
- url: https://alignednews.com/robots.txt
  type: Robots TXT
- url: https://alignednews.com/research
  type: Research
- url: https://alignednews.com/signals
  type: Signals
- url: https://alignednews.com/reports
  type: Reports
- url: https://alignednews.com/bundles
  type: Bundles
- url: https://alignednews.com/ai
  type: AI
- url: https://alignednews.com/mcp-server.ts
  type: MCP Server
- url: https://github.com/Aligned-news
  type: GitHubOrg
- type: Features
  data:
  - AI-powered intelligence from 63 curated X lists
  - Tracks 100,000+ accounts across AI, technology, and science
  - Stories surface breaking AI news with full body content
  - Signals provide early pattern detection with badges (bullish, caution, critical, signal, interview, vc, action)
  - Reports deliver trend deep-dives and summaries
  - Bundles group related stories around themes
  - Section-organized news feed across all topics
  - Full-text Search across stories, signals, and reports
  - REST API gated behind Pro tier with Bearer alnw_ API keys
  - Downloadable single-file MCP server for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Windsurf
  - Free tier exposes headlines, summaries, signal badges, and report summaries only
  - Pro tier unlocks full content + API access
  - Enterprise tier adds team access, priority support, and custom analysis
  - Built on Fly.io (edge), Supabase (data), Clerk (auth and billing), Stripe (payments)
  sources:
  - https://alignednews.com/
  - https://alignednews.com/developers
  - https://alignednews.com/pricing
  - https://alignednews.com/mcp-server.ts
  updated: '2026-05-06'
- url: https://alignednews.com/feed
  type: Blog

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