Bonsai

Bonsai (hellobonsai.com) is an all-in-one business management platform for service businesses -- freelancers, agencies, and firms -- consolidating client management (CRM, pipeline, proposals, contracts, forms, client portal), project management (tasks, Gantt, time tracking, timesheets, resource planning), and financial management (invoicing, payments, expenses, bookkeeping, rate cards, budgeting and profitability) into one system. Used by 500,000+ small businesses globally. Bonsai exposes its programmatic surface through an official hosted MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at mcp.hellobonsai.com so AI clients (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex) can act on tasks, projects, deals, contacts, time entries and invoices; a public REST API is documented as forthcoming. Backed by Matrix Partners.

Bonsai is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, B2B, Business Management, Freelancing, and Agencies.

Bonsai’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, pricing, signup flow, engineering blog, support, and 12 more developer resources.

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29.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 28/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyB2BBusiness ManagementFreelancingAgenciesCRMProject ManagementTime TrackingInvoicingProposalsContractsAccountingMCP

Kin Score

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 29.0/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

bonsai-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

StatusPage

Support

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bonsai
name: Bonsai
description: Bonsai (hellobonsai.com) is an all-in-one business management platform for service businesses -- freelancers,
  agencies, and firms -- consolidating client management (CRM, pipeline, proposals, contracts, forms, client portal), project
  management (tasks, Gantt, time tracking, timesheets, resource planning), and financial management (invoicing, payments,
  expenses, bookkeeping, rate cards, budgeting and profitability) into one system. Used by 500,000+ small businesses globally.
  Bonsai exposes its programmatic surface through an official hosted MCP (Model Context Protocol) server at mcp.hellobonsai.com
  so AI clients (Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, Cursor, Codex) can act on tasks, projects, deals, contacts, time entries and invoices;
  a public REST API is documented as forthcoming. Backed by Matrix Partners.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bonsai/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- matrix-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/635ac9564cc3682ce1536786/673f6d94d320621186b12534_Social%20Meta%20Image%20(1).png
tags:
- Company
- B2B
- Business Management
- Freelancing
- Agencies
- CRM
- Project Management
- Time Tracking
- Invoicing
- Proposals
- Contracts
- Accounting
- MCP
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/bonsai-mcp.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bonsai-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bonsai-rate-limits.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bonsai-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bonsai-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hellobonsai.com/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bonsai-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.hellobonsai.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.hellobonsai.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.hellobonsai.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.hellobonsai.com/users/sign_up
- type: Login
  url: https://app.hellobonsai.com/users/sign_in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.hellobonsai.com/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hellobonsai.com/legal/privacy
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.hellobonsai.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.hellobonsai.com/support
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.hellobonsai.com/en/
- type: Website
  url: https://hellobonsai.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence