# Automatic

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/automatic/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 6.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 6.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Automotive, Connected Car, Telematics, Internet of Things, Vehicle Data, OBD-II, Defunct

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/automatic/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.