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 21 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Complianz/v1 API, Core API, Cptui/v1 API, and 18 more. 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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19.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
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21 APIs 1 MCP Servers

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

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Composite quality — 19.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 4.2 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20

Access Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 21

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

Open Collections 22

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

MCP Servers 1

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

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

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
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:ascend-elements-complianz-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Complianz/v1 API
  description: The complianz/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 11 operation(s) for complianz/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - complianz/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-complianz-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-core-api
  name: Ascend Elements Core API
  description: The core API from Ascend Elements — 2 operation(s) for core.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Core
  tags_raw:
  - core
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-core-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-cptui-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Cptui/v1 API
  description: The cptui/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 2 operation(s) for cptui/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - cptui/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-cptui-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-ea11y-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Ea11y/v1 API
  description: The ea11y/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 20 operation(s) for ea11y/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - ea11y/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-ea11y-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-elementor-ai-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Elementor Ai/v1 API
  description: The elementor-ai/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 2 operation(s) for elementor-ai/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - elementor-ai/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-elementor-ai-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-elementor-one-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Elementor One/v1 API
  description: The elementor-one/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 16 operation(s) for elementor-one/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - elementor-one/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-elementor-one-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-elementor-pro-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Elementor Pro/v1 API
  description: The elementor-pro/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 7 operation(s) for elementor-pro/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - elementor-pro/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-elementor-pro-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-elementor-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Elementor/v1 API
  description: The elementor/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 53 operation(s) for elementor/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - elementor/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-elementor-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-elementor-v1-documents-api
  name: Ascend Elements Elementor/v1/documents API
  description: The elementor/v1/documents API from Ascend Elements — 2 operation(s) for elementor/v1/documents.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - elementor/v1/documents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-elementor-v1-documents-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-elementor-v1-feedback-api
  name: Ascend Elements Elementor/v1/feedback API
  description: The elementor/v1/feedback API from Ascend Elements — 2 operation(s) for elementor/v1/feedback.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - elementor/v1/feedback
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-elementor-v1-feedback-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-facetwp-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Facetwp/v1 API
  description: The facetwp/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 3 operation(s) for facetwp/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - facetwp/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-facetwp-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-image-optimizer-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Image Optimizer/v1 API
  description: The image-optimizer/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 16 operation(s) for image-optimizer/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - image-optimizer/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-image-optimizer-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-oembed-1-0-api
  name: Ascend Elements Oembed/1.0 API
  description: The oembed/1.0 API from Ascend Elements — 3 operation(s) for oembed/1.0.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - oembed/1.0
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-oembed-1-0-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-site-mailer-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Site Mailer/v1 API
  description: The site-mailer/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 21 operation(s) for site-mailer/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - site-mailer/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-site-mailer-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-wp-abilities-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Wp Abilities/v1 API
  description: The wp-abilities/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 6 operation(s) for wp-abilities/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - wp-abilities/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wp-abilities-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-wp-block-editor-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Wp Block Editor/v1 API
  description: The wp-block-editor/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 4 operation(s) for wp-block-editor/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - wp-block-editor/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wp-block-editor-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-wp-site-health-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Wp Site Health/v1 API
  description: The wp-site-health/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 8 operation(s) for wp-site-health/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - wp-site-health/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wp-site-health-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-wp-v2-api
  name: Ascend Elements Wp/v2 API
  description: The wp/v2 API from Ascend Elements — 130 operation(s) for wp/v2.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - wp/v2
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wp-v2-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-wpe-cache-plugin-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Wpe/cache Plugin/v1 API
  description: The wpe/cache-plugin/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 3 operation(s) for wpe/cache-plugin/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - wpe/cache-plugin/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wpe-cache-plugin-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-wpe-sign-on-plugin-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Wpe Sign On Plugin/v1 API
  description: The wpe_sign_on_plugin/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 4 operation(s) for wpe_sign_on_plugin/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - wpe_sign_on_plugin/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-wpe-sign-on-plugin-v1-api-openapi.yml
- aid: ascend-elements:ascend-elements-yoast-v1-api
  name: Ascend Elements Yoast/v1 API
  description: The yoast/v1 API from Ascend Elements — 46 operation(s) for yoast/v1.
  humanURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://ascendelements.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - yoast/v1
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/ascend-elements-yoast-v1-api-openapi.yml
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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/ascend-elements-mcp.yml
- 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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