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, and 12 more developer resources.

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20.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyContent CurationEmployee CommunicationsInternal CommunicationsTotal RewardsContent AggregationNewslettersWidgetsREST

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scored 2026-08-10 · rubric v0.9.1

Composite quality — 20.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 3.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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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 ...

MCP Servers 1

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

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conventions

DataModel

Components

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/backstitch-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/backstitch-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence