Bayes Impact

Bayes Impact is a nonprofit organization that builds open-source AI and data-science tools for public services, governments, and nonprofits, with a mission to empower people in need and those who help them. Surfaced through Y Combinator, it has served over 10 million beneficiaries across three continents. Its flagship open-source project, Bob (formerly Bob Emploi), delivers personalized, data-driven career and job-search advice to jobseekers through a Python/Flask RESTful JSON API whose data structures are defined in Protocol Buffers. Other projects include the Bayes Platform agent framework for public services, the Encompass geographic-access analysis tool, and a range of civic data-science tooling.

Bayes Impact is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Nonprofit, Artificial Intelligence, Data Science, and Public Services.

Bayes Impact’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 8 more developer resources.

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13.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 13.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

SourceCode

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

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

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Protobuf

Protobuf

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bayes-impact
name: Bayes Impact
description: Bayes Impact is a nonprofit organization that builds open-source AI and data-science tools for public services,
  governments, and nonprofits, with a mission to empower people in need and those who help them. Surfaced through Y Combinator,
  it has served over 10 million beneficiaries across three continents. Its flagship open-source project, Bob (formerly Bob
  Emploi), delivers personalized, data-driven career and job-search advice to jobseekers through a Python/Flask RESTful JSON
  API whose data structures are defined in Protocol Buffers. Other projects include the Bayes Platform agent framework for
  public services, the Encompass geographic-access analysis tool, and a range of civic data-science tooling.
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- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Science
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
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- type: Support
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