Archive

Archive is a brand-owned resale and recommerce technology platform, founded in 2021, that lets forward-thinking global brands launch and scale profitable, sustainable resale businesses. Its circularity platform spans branded recommerce storefronts, peer-to-peer marketplaces, trade-in (online and in-store), take-back, warranty and repair, a resale warehouse management system (WMS), a unified product catalog, a dynamic pricing engine, and analytics — reclaiming supply through returns, past-season inventory, consumer listings, and in-store trade-ins. Archive serves 50+ brands across 10+ countries, including The North Face, lululemon, Peloton, New Balance, Dr. Martens, Fjällräven, Oscar de la Renta, Hanna Andersson, and Faherty. The company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners (with Energize Capital leading its $30M Series B), and has raised $54M to date.

Archive is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Commerce, Resale, Recommerce, and Circularity.

Archive’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 11 more developer resources.

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17.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Commerce Resale RecommerceCircularitySustainability Retail E-Commerce Trade-In Warehouse Management

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 17.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 4.9 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 15

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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 28.9 — up to +14.2 composite points

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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
Electronics Recycling & Circular Economy (e-waste, battery value chain, circularity networks)	undeclared	-	-	-

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.

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Security Posture 1

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

Archive Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Instagram

Instagram

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: archive
name: Archive
description: Archive is a brand-owned resale and recommerce technology platform, founded in 2021, that lets forward-thinking
  global brands launch and scale profitable, sustainable resale businesses. Its circularity platform spans branded recommerce
  storefronts, peer-to-peer marketplaces, trade-in (online and in-store), take-back, warranty and repair, a resale warehouse
  management system (WMS), a unified product catalog, a dynamic pricing engine, and analytics — reclaiming supply through
  returns, past-season inventory, consumer listings, and in-store trade-ins. Archive serves 50+ brands across 10+ countries,
  including The North Face, lululemon, Peloton, New Balance, Dr. Martens, Fjällräven, Oscar de la Renta, Hanna Andersson,
  and Faherty. The company is backed by Bain Capital Ventures and Lightspeed Venture Partners (with Energize Capital leading
  its $30M Series B), and has raised $54M to date.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/archive/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bain-capital-ventures
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/695bccc663f332811d2c2853/6980d51fe88a1f91b6e6d76b_og-home.png
tags:
- Company
- Commerce
- Resale
- Recommerce
- Circularity
- Sustainability
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Trade-In
- Warehouse Management
tags_raw:
- Company
- Commerce
- Resale
- Recommerce
- Circularity
- Sustainability
- Retail
- Ecommerce
- Trade-In
- Warehouse Management
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.archiveresale.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.archiveresale.com/resources/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.archiveresale.com/contact
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.archiveresale.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.archiveresale.com/legal/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.archiveresale.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.archiveresale.com/legal/security
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/archive-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/archive-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/archive-domain-security.yml
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/archiveresale/
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/archiveresale
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/archiveresaleco/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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