# Amiato

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

Amiato was a Palo Alto, California big-data startup founded in 2011 by Nathan Binkert and Mehul A. Shah, originally incubated at Y Combinator in 2012 under the name Nou Data. Amiato built a real-time analytics pipeline around its Schema-lift technology, which extracted records from NoSQL data stores such as MongoDB and Couchbase, automatically inferred and transformed them into a relational schema, and loaded them continuously into Amazon Redshift so that unstructured operational data could be queried by conventional business-intelligence tools. The company raised roughly $2M from investors including Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Ignition Partners, Data Collective (DCVC) and angel Bobby Yazdani. Amazon Web Services quietly acquired Amiato in May 2014 (reported publicly in April 2015) in what was widely characterized as a talent acquisition; most of the team joined Amazon's database and Redshift product groups and Amiato ceased independent operations. The company is defunct: the amiato.com domain no longer resolves and there is no surviving public API, developer portal, documentation, or SDK surface 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, Big Data, Data Integration, ETL, Business Intelligence, NoSQL, Data Warehouse, Analytics, Defunct, Acquired

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