backstitch

backstitch is a Techstars-backed Kansas City company that operates an employee and total-rewards communications platform (drag-and-drop newsletters, a branded mobile employee app, and personalized total-compensation statements) alongside a developer-facing content-curation API. The backstitch API lets applications build and manage "topics" that aggregate and filter content from social, RSS, video, deals, and custom sources, then retrieve normalized result objects (articles, statuses, photos, videos, products, services, hotels) or embed them with a drop-in JavaScript widget. The API is offered in a legacy v1 and a recommended v2 over REST/JSON, authenticated with an Organization Key plus per-topic tokens.

backstitch publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Content Curation, Employee Communications, Internal Communications, and Total Rewards.

backstitch’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, authentication, getting-started guide, and 18 more developer resources.

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30.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 8/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessApproval

1 APIs

Company Content Curation Employee Communications Internal Communications Total Rewards Content Aggregation Newsletters Widgets REST

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 30.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 11.4 / 20

Access Clarity 8.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 8/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 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.

backstitch Content Curation API

RESTful JSON API to build and manage backstitch topics — content feeds assembled from social, RSS, video, deals, subreddit, and custom sources with include/exclude/NSFW filters ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Backstitch Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Backstitch Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

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

Backstitch Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Backstitch Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Backstitch Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Backstitch Trust Center

SOC for Service Organizations (AICPA)

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Components

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

Authentication

Compliance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: backstitch
name: backstitch
description: backstitch is a Techstars-backed Kansas City company that operates an employee and total-rewards communications
  platform (drag-and-drop newsletters, a branded mobile employee app, and personalized total-compensation statements) alongside
  a developer-facing content-curation API. The backstitch API lets applications build and manage "topics" that aggregate and
  filter content from social, RSS, video, deals, and custom sources, then retrieve normalized result objects (articles, statuses,
  photos, videos, products, services, hotels) or embed them with a drop-in JavaScript widget. The API is offered in a legacy
  v1 and a recommended v2 over REST/JSON, authenticated with an Organization Key plus per-topic tokens.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.backstitch.io/hs-fs/hubfs/backstitch_logo_purple_2020.png?width=170&height=36&name=backstitch_logo_purple_2020.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/backstitch/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-public-developer-surface
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- Content Curation
- Employee Communications
- Internal Communications
- Total Rewards
- Content Aggregation
- Newsletters
- Widgets
- REST
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: backstitch Content Curation API
  description: RESTful JSON API to build and manage backstitch topics — content feeds assembled from social, RSS, video, deals,
    subreddit, and custom sources with include/exclude/NSFW filters — and to retrieve normalized result objects or embed them
    via a JavaScript widget. Available as legacy v1 and recommended v2.
  humanURL: https://docs.backstit.ch/api/
  baseURL: https://api.backstit.ch/v2
  tags:
  - Content Curation
  - Aggregation
  - REST
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.backstit.ch/api/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.backstit.ch/api/
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/backstitch-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.backstitch.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.backstit.ch/api/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.backstit.ch/api/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/backstitch
- type: Support
  url: https://www.backstitch.io/help
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.backstitch.io/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.backstitch.io/website-privacy-policy
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.backstitch.io/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/backstitch-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/backstitch-error-codes.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/backstitch-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/backstitch-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/backstitch-data-model.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/backstitch-components.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/backstitch-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: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/backstitch-llms.txt
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.backstit.ch/api/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://support.backstitch.com/support-topic/getting-started/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://support.backstitch.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.backstitch.io/terms-of-service
- type: Login
  url: https://studio.backstit.ch/
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/backstitch-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/backstitch-trust-center.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1

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