Big Sur Ai

Big Sur AI is an AI-powered SaaS platform for e-commerce merchants, founded in 2023 by Vinod Ramachandran (CEO) and Arnaud Weber (CTO). Its flagship product is an AI Sales Agent that delivers an assisted, conversational shopping experience to online shoppers, guiding product discovery and answering questions in real time to increase merchant conversion rates and average order sizes. The company raised a $6.9M seed round in March 2024 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Guru Chahal as the lead partner. This profile was surfaced from the Lightspeed portfolio and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.

Big Sur Ai is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Conversational AI, and Shopping Assistant.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyArtificial IntelligenceE-CommerceConversational AIShopping AssistantRetail TechnologySaaSSales Agent

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 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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Security Posture 1

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

Big Sur Ai Domain Security

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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: big-sur-ai
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name: Big Sur Ai
description: Big Sur AI is an AI-powered SaaS platform for e-commerce merchants, founded in 2023 by Vinod Ramachandran (CEO)
  and Arnaud Weber (CTO). Its flagship product is an AI Sales Agent that delivers an assisted, conversational shopping experience
  to online shoppers, guiding product discovery and answering questions in real time to increase merchant conversion rates
  and average order sizes. The company raised a $6.9M seed round in March 2024 led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, with Guru
  Chahal as the lead partner. This profile was surfaced from the Lightspeed portfolio and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- lightspeed-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-founded: '2023'
x-founders:
- Vinod Ramachandran
- Arnaud Weber
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- E-Commerce
- Conversational AI
- Shopping Assistant
- Retail Technology
- SaaS
- Sales Agent
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/big-sur-ai-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bigsur.ai
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence