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Beacon Health

Beacon Health (YC W26) is a San Francisco company building "AI employees" for primary care — autonomous agents that operate directly inside electronic health record systems the same way a human staff member does. Rather than integrating through an EHR vendor API, Beacon records a practice's existing workflow in the EHR (navigation, clicks, data entry) and converts that recording into a reusable, deployable agent that runs at scale across the whole patient panel. The agents automate value-based-care back-office work: preventative and quality gap closure, pre-charting, prior authorizations, referrals, transition-of-care management, and HCC risk-adjustment coding. Beacon advertises coverage of AthenaHealth, Epic, Cerner, eClinicalWorks, MEDITECH, NextGen, Veradigm Allscripts and MEDENT, plus payer portals and other web applications. Founded in 2025 by Mark Pothen (CEO) and Obinna Akahara (CTO), the company operates as a HIPAA Business Associate under a BAA with each covered entity, and publishes a trust center at trust.beaconhealth.ai carrying a 56-control monitored control set, a named eight-vendor subprocessor list, and SOC 2 and HIPAA frameworks both declared in progress with no completed attestation. As of this profile Beacon Health publishes no public developer API, developer portal, API documentation, SDKs, or OpenAPI definition — the product is delivered as a managed agent workforce, not as a self-serve API.

Beacon Health is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Healthcare, Primary Care, Value-Based Care, and Electronic Health Records.

Beacon Health’s developer surface includes authentication and 18 more developer resources.

20.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →
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CompanyHealthcarePrimary CareValue-Based CareElectronic Health RecordsArtificial IntelligenceAI AgentsWorkflow AutomationRisk AdjustmentPrior AuthorizationHIPAAY Combinator

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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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
  • MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
  • Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
  • 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)
  • Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
  • A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
11 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.
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Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.
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Beacon Health API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Beacon Health Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

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

Beacon Health Authentication

openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Beacon Health Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Beacon Health Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Beacon Health Trust Center

trust center published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: beacon-health
name: Beacon Health
description: 'Beacon Health (YC W26) is a San Francisco company building "AI employees" for primary care — autonomous agents
  that operate directly inside electronic health record systems the same way a human staff member does. Rather than integrating
  through an EHR vendor API, Beacon records a practice''s existing workflow in the EHR (navigation, clicks, data entry) and
  converts that recording into a reusable, deployable agent that runs at scale across the whole patient panel. The agents
  automate value-based-care back-office work: preventative and quality gap closure, pre-charting, prior authorizations, referrals,
  transition-of-care management, and HCC risk-adjustment coding. Beacon advertises coverage of AthenaHealth, Epic, Cerner,
  eClinicalWorks, MEDITECH, NextGen, Veradigm Allscripts and MEDENT, plus payer portals and other web applications. Founded
  in 2025 by Mark Pothen (CEO) and Obinna Akahara (CTO), the company operates as a HIPAA Business Associate under a BAA with
  each covered entity, and publishes a trust center at trust.beaconhealth.ai carrying a 56-control monitored control set,
  a named eight-vendor subprocessor list, and SOC 2 and HIPAA frameworks both declared in progress with no completed attestation.
  As of this profile Beacon Health publishes no public developer API, developer portal, API documentation, SDKs, or OpenAPI
  definition — the product is delivered as a managed agent workforce, not as a self-serve API.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/beacon-health/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.beaconhealth.ai/apple-touch-icon.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: no-public-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-15'
tags:
- Company
- Healthcare
- Primary Care
- Value-Based Care
- Electronic Health Records
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Workflow Automation
- Risk Adjustment
- Prior Authorization
- HIPAA
- Y Combinator
tags_raw:
- Company
- Healthcare
- Primary Care
- Value Based Care
- EHR
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Workflow Automation
- Risk Adjustment
- Prior Authorization
- HIPAA
- Y Combinator
- Workflow-Automation
apis: []
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/beacon-health-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/beacon-health-rate-limits.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.beaconhealth.ai/
- type: Login
  url: https://www.beaconhealth.ai/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.beaconhealth.ai/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.beaconhealth.ai/privacy
- type: Contact
  url: https://form.typeform.com/to/mJ8w6Xot
- type: Crunchbase
  url: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/beacon-health
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beacon-health-ai/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/beacon-health-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/beacon-health-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/beacon-health-authentication.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/beacon-health-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.beaconhealth.ai/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/beacon-health-trust-center.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/beacon-health-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/beacon-health-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/beacon-health-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/beacon-health-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-15'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 6
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Beacon Health ships software but only as a managed service — contract discovery probed 55 paths across www., api.
    and trust.beaconhealth.ai and found no OpenAPI, GraphQL, MCP or agent card, because the company's stated thesis is that
    its agents drive EHR user interfaces precisely where no usable API exists.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.beaconhealth.ai/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.beaconhealth.ai/docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.beaconhealth.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.beaconhealth.ai/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://trust.beaconhealth.ai/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-15'
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io

Beacon Health API — frequently asked questions

How do I authenticate with the Beacon Health API?

Beacon Health documents its authentication (openIdConnect · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Beacon Health Authentication.

Is the Beacon Health API ready for AI agents?

Beacon Health has a Kin Score of 20.9 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 9.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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