Aptera

Aptera (Aptera Software, Inc.) was a custom software development consultancy based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, founded in 2003 and specializing in the Microsoft stack — .NET, SharePoint, Azure, business intelligence, and web and mobile application development, plus legacy application modernization, DevOps, UI/UX design, quality assurance, and security and compliance services for enterprise clients. It employed more than 100 people and was the largest web development firm in northeast Indiana before being acquired by IT services provider Core BTS on June 30, 2021, after which it ceased to operate as an independent brand. Battery Ventures lists "Aptera, Inc." on its all-companies page as an exited investment, which is how this record entered the API Evangelist network. Aptera was a services firm rather than an API producer: enrichment found no public API, developer portal, OpenAPI definition, SDK, webhook surface, or MCP server. Its only surviving public technical footprint is a GitHub organization of engineering-practice repositories (coding katas and workshop material).

Aptera is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Software Development, Consulting, Application Modernization, and Microsoft.

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6.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Software Development Consulting Application Modernization Microsoft .NET SharePoint Azure Mobile Applications Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 6.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 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

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: aptera
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/aptera.png
name: Aptera
description: 'Aptera (Aptera Software, Inc.) was a custom software development consultancy based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, founded
  in 2003 and specializing in the Microsoft stack — .NET, SharePoint, Azure, business intelligence, and web and mobile application
  development, plus legacy application modernization, DevOps, UI/UX design, quality assurance, and security and compliance
  services for enterprise clients. It employed more than 100 people and was the largest web development firm in northeast
  Indiana before being acquired by IT services provider Core BTS on June 30, 2021, after which it ceased to operate as an
  independent brand. Battery Ventures lists "Aptera, Inc." on its all-companies page as an exited investment, which is how
  this record entered the API Evangelist network. Aptera was a services firm rather than an API producer: enrichment found
  no public API, developer portal, OpenAPI definition, SDK, webhook surface, or MCP server. Its only surviving public technical
  footprint is a GitHub organization of engineering-practice repositories (coding katas and workshop material).'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/aptera/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- battery-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-status-note: Acquired by Core BTS on 2021-06-30; no longer an independent company. Battery Ventures lists it as an exited
  investment.
x-disambiguation: Not Aptera Motors (aptera.us), the unrelated solar electric vehicle manufacturer. The aptera.com domain
  is no longer controlled by this company and now hosts an unrelated home-and-office services lead-generation marketplace;
  apterainc.com is a separate UK digital marketing agency.
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Software Development
- Consulting
- Application Modernization
- Microsoft
- .NET
- SharePoint
- Azure
- Mobile Applications
- Acquired
apis: []
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/aptera
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: llms.txt
  url: llms/aptera-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

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