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 APIs 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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43.8/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 36/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-12 · rubric v0.11.0

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Companymanufacturingproduct-cost-managementdesign-for-manufacturabilityshould-costplm-integrationcost-engineeringdigital-manufacturingsustainabilityworkflow-automationcad

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Composite quality — 43.8/100 · developing

Contract Quality 12.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 9.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13

Governance 1.4 / 12

Discoverability 6.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 36/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 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

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APIs 2

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

aPriori Agent API

Agent Controller

aPriori Workflow API

Workflows Controller

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

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

MCPServer

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
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: '0.20'
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
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:
  - 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:
  - 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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/apriori-mcp.yml
- 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