aPriori

aPriori Technologies is a manufacturing insights software company founded in 2003 that simulates how a product will actually be made. Its platform ingests CAD geometry and returns should-cost estimates, design-for-manufacturability (DFM) guidance, routing and cycle-time analysis, and manufacturing carbon figures, so design, cost, sourcing and sustainability teams can act on production economics before tooling is cut. The product family covers aP Pro, aP Design, aP Generate, aP Analytics, aP Workspace and aiSource, delivered as aPriori Cloud or on-premise. Its public integration surface is aP Connect — a PLM/file-system connector plus a customer-installed Agent that carries a documented REST API for listing workflows, invoking REST-driven costing jobs, polling job state and retrieving per-part costing results, used to wire aPriori into Windchill, Teamcenter and file-system pipelines.

aPriori publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Agent API and Workflow API. Tagged areas include Company, Manufacturing, product-cost-management, design-for-manufacturability, and should-cost.

aPriori’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

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40.6/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

1 published contract

Company Manufacturingproduct-cost-managementdesign-for-manufacturabilityshould-costplm-integrationcost-engineeringDigital Manufacturing Sustainability Workflow Automation CAD

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 40.6/100 · developing

Contract Quality 7.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.1 / 15

Access Clarity 8.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 4.8 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) 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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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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.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Engineering CAD, CAE and PLM	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	-

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.

APIs 2

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

aPriori Agent API

Agent Controller

aPriori Workflow API

Workflows Controller

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

aP Connect REST Agent API

OPEN COLLECTION

aP Connect Agent REST Workflow API

OPEN COLLECTION

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Apriori Ap Connect Agent Overlay

7 actions · update · apriori-ap-connect-agent.yml

GENERATED

Security Posture 3

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

Apriori Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Apriori Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Apriori Trust Center

ISO/IEC 27001, SOC 2, GDPR

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: apriori
name: aPriori
description: aPriori Technologies is a manufacturing insights software company founded in 2003 that simulates how a product
  will actually be made. Its platform ingests CAD geometry and returns should-cost estimates, design-for-manufacturability
  (DFM) guidance, routing and cycle-time analysis, and manufacturing carbon figures, so design, cost, sourcing and sustainability
  teams can act on production economics before tooling is cut. The product family covers aP Pro, aP Design, aP Generate, aP
  Analytics, aP Workspace and aiSource, delivered as aPriori Cloud or on-premise. Its public integration surface is aP Connect
  — a PLM/file-system connector plus a customer-installed Agent that carries a documented REST API for listing workflows,
  invoking REST-driven costing jobs, polling job state and retrieving per-part costing results, used to wire aPriori into
  Windchill, Teamcenter and file-system pipelines.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/apriori/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  try_now_blocked_by: loopback
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.apriori.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/manufacturing-simulation-software-expert-partnership.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Manufacturing
- product-cost-management
- design-for-manufacturability
- should-cost
- plm-integration
- cost-engineering
- Digital Manufacturing
- Sustainability
- Workflow Automation
- CAD
tags_raw:
- Company
- manufacturing
- product-cost-management
- design-for-manufacturability
- should-cost
- plm-integration
- cost-engineering
- digital-manufacturing
- sustainability
- workflow-automation
- cad
- Workflow-Automation
apis:
- aid: apriori:apriori-agent-api
  name: aPriori Agent API
  description: Agent Controller
  humanURL: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/rarg/overview/
  baseURL: http://localhost/api
  tags:
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - Agent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apriori-agent-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/sag/REST-API-Management-Responsibilities/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/rarg/overview/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/apriori-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/apriori-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/apriori-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/apriori-data-model.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/apriori-changelog.yml
- aid: apriori:apriori-workflow-api
  name: aPriori Workflow API
  description: Workflows Controller
  humanURL: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/rarg/overview/
  baseURL: http://localhost/api
  tags:
  - Workflows
  tags_raw:
  - Workflow
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/apriori-workflow-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/sag/REST-API-Management-Responsibilities/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/rarg/overview/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/apriori-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/apriori-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/apriori-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/apriori-data-model.yml
  - type: ChangeLog
    url: changelog/apriori-changelog.yml
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/apriori-ap-connect-agent-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.apriori.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.apriori.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/rarg/overview/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.apriori.com/en/Connect/apc/ig/Agent-Installation-Overview/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.apriori.com/hc/en-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.apriori.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://www.apriori.com/blog/feed/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.apriori.com/pricing/
- type: Login
  url: https://cloud.apriori.net/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.apriori.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.apriori.com/legal-notice/
- type: Compliance
  url: security/apriori-trust-center.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/apriori-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/apriori-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/apriori-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/apriori-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/apriori-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/apriori-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/apriori-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/apriori-changelog.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/apriori-data-model.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/apriori-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/apriori-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/apriori-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/apriori-well-known.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1

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