# Balloon

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/balloon/  
**Website:** https://getballoon.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 15.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 15.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 38.2 |
| Access Clarity | 38.2 |

## 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Balloon Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Collaboration, Team Collaboration, Decision Making, Employee Engagement, Meetings, Productivity, Anonymous Feedback

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