Automatic

Automatic (Automatic Labs, Inc.) was a San Francisco connected-car company founded in 2011 by Thejo Kote and Jerry Jariyasunant. Its OBD-II adapter and companion mobile app turned almost any car built since 1996 into a connected car, adding trip logging, fuel and MPG tracking, engine-light diagnostics, parking recall, and automatic crash alerts. Automatic ran a public developer platform at developer.automatic.com built around three surfaces: a REST API exposing trip, user, and vehicle data; an Events API delivering real-time driving events such as ignition on/off, hard braking, acceleration, speeding, and location changes over webhooks and websockets; and a private-beta Streaming SDK that read raw OBD-II data from the second-generation adapter over Bluetooth. SiriusXM acquired the company on 2017-04-27 for approximately $115 million, and all operations were shut down on 2020-05-28. THIS COMPANY IS DEFUNCT — no API, developer portal, or documentation remains online, and the automatic.com domain now belongs to the unrelated company Automattic. This profile is retained as a historical record of a notable connected-car API platform.

Automatic is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Automotive, Connected Car, Telematics, and Internet of Things.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyAutomotiveConnected CarTelematicsInternet of ThingsVehicle DataOBD-IIDefunct

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Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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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Agent Surfaces 1

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Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

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Source (apis.yml)

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description: 'Automatic (Automatic Labs, Inc.) was a San Francisco connected-car company founded in 2011 by Thejo Kote and
  Jerry Jariyasunant. Its OBD-II adapter and companion mobile app turned almost any car built since 1996 into a connected
  car, adding trip logging, fuel and MPG tracking, engine-light diagnostics, parking recall, and automatic crash alerts. Automatic
  ran a public developer platform at developer.automatic.com built around three surfaces: a REST API exposing trip, user,
  and vehicle data; an Events API delivering real-time driving events such as ignition on/off, hard braking, acceleration,
  speeding, and location changes over webhooks and websockets; and a private-beta Streaming SDK that read raw OBD-II data
  from the second-generation adapter over Bluetooth. SiriusXM acquired the company on 2017-04-27 for approximately $115 million,
  and all operations were shut down on 2020-05-28. THIS COMPANY IS DEFUNCT — no API, developer portal, or documentation remains
  online, and the automatic.com domain now belongs to the unrelated company Automattic. This profile is retained as a historical
  record of a notable connected-car API platform.'
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