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 8 more developer resources.

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15.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

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Company Collaboration Team CollaborationDecision MakingEmployee Engagement Meetings ProductivityAnonymous Feedback

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 15.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 7.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

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 Surface 0 / 5

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

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HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

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Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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
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
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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