Balloon

Balloon is a research-backed team collaboration and decision-making platform built to eliminate groupthink and give quieter voices a psychologically safe way to contribute. Its core workflow, called a "flight," is a two-stage, partly anonymous process in which a leader poses a question, team members submit ideas ("balloons") and discuss them, and the group then evaluates and "pumps" the strongest ideas on merit, surfacing a Balloon Score that shows consensus and buy-in. Balloon ships 150+ expert-authored flight templates across 25 business areas and supports asynchronous, time-zone-independent participation, positioning itself as a replacement for status and ideation meetings (the company cites a 70% reduction in meeting time and that ~80% of information shared is new to the organization). Founded by Amanda Greenberg and Noah Bornstein, Balloon is backed by 500 Global and other investors, with an advisory board including Adam Grant, Amy Edmondson, and Daniel Pink. It is a SaaS web application (app at balloon.app) with no public developer API, OpenAPI, or developer portal at this time.

Balloon is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Collaboration, Team Collaboration, Decision-Making, and Employee Engagement.

Balloon’s developer surface includes pricing, engineering blog, and 13 more developer resources.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Collaboration Team Collaboration Decision-Making Employee Engagement Meetings ProductivityAnonymous Feedback

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 8.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey) Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes Ask about this →

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points Ask about this →
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points Ask about this →

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Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Balloon

9 quoted statements, read from Balloon's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Balloon

17 quoted statements, read from Balloon's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Balloon

3 quoted statements, read from Balloon's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Balloon

1 quoted statement, read from Balloon's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Balloon

1 quoted statement, read from Balloon's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Security Posture 1

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

Balloon Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: balloon
name: Balloon
description: Balloon is a research-backed team collaboration and decision-making platform built to eliminate groupthink and
  give quieter voices a psychologically safe way to contribute. Its core workflow, called a "flight," is a two-stage, partly
  anonymous process in which a leader poses a question, team members submit ideas ("balloons") and discuss them, and the group
  then evaluates and "pumps" the strongest ideas on merit, surfacing a Balloon Score that shows consensus and buy-in. Balloon
  ships 150+ expert-authored flight templates across 25 business areas and supports asynchronous, time-zone-independent participation,
  positioning itself as a replacement for status and ideation meetings (the company cites a 70% reduction in meeting time
  and that ~80% of information shared is new to the organization). Founded by Amanda Greenberg and Noah Bornstein, Balloon
  is backed by 500 Global and other investors, with an advisory board including Adam Grant, Amy Edmondson, and Daniel Pink.
  It is a SaaS web application (app at balloon.app) with no public developer API, OpenAPI, or developer portal at this time.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/balloon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead-enriched
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: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://getballoon.com/images/og-logo.png
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Collaboration
- Team Collaboration
- Decision-Making
- Employee Engagement
- Meetings
- Productivity
- Anonymous Feedback
tags_raw:
- Company
- Collaboration
- Team Collaboration
- Decision Making
- Employee Engagement
- Meetings
- Productivity
- Anonymous Feedback
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getballoon.com
- type: Pricing
  url: https://getballoon.com/pricing/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://getballoon.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://getballoon.com/privacy/
- type: Login
  url: https://balloon.app/login
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.balloon.app/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.getballoon.com/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://blog.getballoon.com/rss.xml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/balloon-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/balloon-domain-security.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/balloon-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/balloon-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/balloon-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/balloon-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/balloon-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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