Ascend Elements

Ascend Elements is a Westborough, Massachusetts battery materials company that manufactures engineered lithium-ion battery materials from valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries and gigafactory manufacturing scrap. Founded in 2015 as Battery Resourcers out of MIT-affiliated research by Eric Gratz and Professor Yan Wang, it recovers up to 98% of the critical battery metals in end-of-life cells and uses its patented Hydro-to-Cathode direct cathode precursor (pCAM) synthesis process to produce cathode precursor and battery-grade lithium carbonate, reducing the carbon footprint of new EV battery cathode material by up to 90%. Its Base 1 facility in Covington, Georgia is North America's largest electric-vehicle battery recycling plant, and Apex 1 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is its commercial pCAM plant. Ascend Elements publishes no public developer API for its materials, recycling or logistics business; the only machine-readable surface observed on its own hosts is the WordPress REST API at ascendelements.com/wp-json, which serves the corporate website's content, media-coverage, jobs and supplier sourcing-event collections.

Ascend Elements publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Battery Materials, Battery Recycling, Lithium-Ion, and Critical Minerals.

Ascend Elements’ developer surface includes engineering blog, privacy policy, YouTube channel, authentication, and 25 more developer resources.

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15.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

1 API

Company Battery Materials Battery Recycling Lithium-Ion Critical MineralsCathode PrecursorElectric Vehicles Circular Economy Advanced Manufacturing Sustainability Supply Chain Content Management

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scored 2026-10-04 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 15.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.4 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.1 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 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 0 / 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

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APIs 1

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

Ascend Elements Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Ascend Elements website at ascendelements.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site sur...

Open Collections 1

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

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

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

Ascend Elements Authentication

http · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Ascend Elements Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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Ascend Elements Agentic Access

601 operations · 354 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

ToolCrosswalk

ToolCrosswalk

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Youtube

Youtube

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ContactUs

ContactUs

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Privacy

Privacy

Company 7

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

Press

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Scroll for all 7

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Products

Services

Policies

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: ascend-elements
name: Ascend Elements
description: Ascend Elements is a Westborough, Massachusetts battery materials company that manufactures engineered lithium-ion
  battery materials from valuable elements reclaimed from spent lithium-ion batteries and gigafactory manufacturing scrap.
  Founded in 2015 as Battery Resourcers out of MIT-affiliated research by Eric Gratz and Professor Yan Wang, it recovers up
  to 98% of the critical battery metals in end-of-life cells and uses its patented Hydro-to-Cathode direct cathode precursor
  (pCAM) synthesis process to produce cathode precursor and battery-grade lithium carbonate, reducing the carbon footprint
  of new EV battery cathode material by up to 90%. Its Base 1 facility in Covington, Georgia is North America's largest electric-vehicle
  battery recycling plant, and Apex 1 in Hopkinsville, Kentucky is its commercial pCAM plant. Ascend Elements publishes no
  public developer API for its materials, recycling or logistics business; the only machine-readable surface observed on its
  own hosts is the WordPress REST API at ascendelements.com/wp-json, which serves the corporate website's content, media-coverage,
  jobs and supplier sourcing-event collections.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ascend-elements/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://ascendelements.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/cropped-AE_favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Battery Materials
- Battery Recycling
- Lithium-Ion
- Critical Minerals
- Cathode Precursor
- Electric Vehicles
- Circular Economy
- Advanced Manufacturing
- Sustainability
- Supply Chain
- Content Management
apis:
- aid: ascend-elements:ascendelements-com-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Ascend Elements Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Ascend Elements website at ascendelements.com: the route index
    of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/ascend-elements-wordpress-rest-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/ascend-elements-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ascend-elements-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://ascendelements.com/
- type: About
  url: https://ascendelements.com/about-us/
- type: Products
  url: https://ascendelements.com/products/
- type: Services
  url: https://ascendelements.com/services/
- type: Blog
  url: https://ascendelements.com/category/news/
- type: Press
  url: https://ascendelements.com/category/coverage/
- type: Careers
  url: https://ascendelements.com/careers/
- type: Policies
  url: https://ascendelements.com/corporate-policies/
- type: Privacy
  name: Opt-out preferences / US cookie and data-sharing statement
  url: https://ascendelements.com/opt-out-preferences/
- type: ContactUs
  url: mailto:info@ascendelements.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/battery-resourcers
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/ascendelements
- type: Youtube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@AscendElements
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/ascend-elements_stock/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ascend-elements-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/ascend-elements-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/ascend-elements-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/ascend-elements-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/ascend-elements-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ascend-elements-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/ascend-elements-data-model.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/ascend-elements-packages.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/ascend-elements-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/ascend-elements-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ascend-elements-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1

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