Athletes First

Athletes First is a full-service sports representation and management agency founded in 2001 and headquartered in Southern California, with additional offices in New York City, Gainesville, Austin, and Atlanta. The firm represents elite NFL players, coaches, front-office executives, collegiate athletes, and sports broadcasters, and operates specialized departments spanning football contract negotiation, career management, pre-draft preparation, talent marketing and brand building, broadcasting and new media, media development and sales, and properties and events. In February 2023, Mastry Ventures in partnership with General Catalyst acquired a majority stake in the agency. This profile was surfaced as a General Catalyst portfolio company (sector: consumer) and added to the API Evangelist network. Athletes First publishes no public developer, API, or technical surface.

Athletes First is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Sports, Sports Representation, and Talent Agency.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyConsumerSportsSports RepresentationTalent AgencyAthlete ManagementNFLSports Marketing

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · 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 — 0/100 · 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: athletes-first
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  pricing: unknown
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  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
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  source: []
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  method: derived
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name: Athletes First
description: 'Athletes First is a full-service sports representation and management agency founded in 2001 and headquartered
  in Southern California, with additional offices in New York City, Gainesville, Austin, and Atlanta. The firm represents
  elite NFL players, coaches, front-office executives, collegiate athletes, and sports broadcasters, and operates specialized
  departments spanning football contract negotiation, career management, pre-draft preparation, talent marketing and brand
  building, broadcasting and new media, media development and sales, and properties and events. In February 2023, Mastry Ventures
  in partnership with General Catalyst acquired a majority stake in the agency. This profile was surfaced as a General Catalyst
  portfolio company (sector: consumer) and added to the API Evangelist network. Athletes First publishes no public developer,
  API, or technical surface.'
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x-source: vc-portfolio
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- general-catalyst
x-tier: stub
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Sports
- Sports Representation
- Talent Agency
- Athlete Management
- NFL
- Sports Marketing
apis: []
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- type: DomainSecurity
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- type: Website
  url: https://www.athletesfirst.net/
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

Athletes First

Kin Score

Security Posture 1

Athletes First Domain Security

Resources

Access & Security 1

Company 1

Source (apis.yml)