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Archer

Archer (archermoney.com) is a Y Combinator (Spring 2026) financial-infrastructure startup building global payouts, stablecoin banking, and yield infrastructure for the companies powering the AI data economy. Archer lets data marketplaces, AI labor platforms, and reinforcement-learning environment providers onboard workers globally, pay contributors instantly with stablecoins, and earn yield on idle platform balances while funds remain on platform. The company aims to be the financial layer for the global workforce generating the data that trains frontier AI models, reducing cross-border payout costs and improving the financial experience for contributors. Founded by Benjamin Nguyen (CEO) and Vivek Yanamadula (CTO); early stage, no public developer surface or API specification published yet.

Archer is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Payments, Payouts, Stablecoins, and Fintech.

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7.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyPaymentsPayoutsStablecoinsFintechFinancial InfrastructureArtificial IntelligenceBanking

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

Archer Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown
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LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
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Twitter

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: archer
name: Archer
description: Archer (archermoney.com) is a Y Combinator (Spring 2026) financial-infrastructure startup building global payouts,
  stablecoin banking, and yield infrastructure for the companies powering the AI data economy. Archer lets data marketplaces,
  AI labor platforms, and reinforcement-learning environment providers onboard workers globally, pay contributors instantly
  with stablecoins, and earn yield on idle platform balances while funds remain on platform. The company aims to be the financial
  layer for the global workforce generating the data that trains frontier AI models, reducing cross-border payout costs and
  improving the financial experience for contributors. Founded by Benjamin Nguyen (CEO) and Vivek Yanamadula (CTO); early
  stage, no public developer surface or API specification published yet.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/archer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-yc-batch: Spring 2026
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://www.archermoney.com/assets/favicon.png
tags:
- Company
- Payments
- Payouts
- Stablecoins
- Fintech
- Financial Infrastructure
- Artificial Intelligence
- Banking
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.archermoney.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/archermoney/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/archer_money
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/archer-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/archer-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/archer-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence