# Bonsai

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bonsai/  
**Website:** https://hellobonsai.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 27.3 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 27.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 36.8 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 34.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 23.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | yes |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## MCP servers (1)

- **bonsai-mcp.yml**

## Security (3)

- **Bonsai Authentication** — oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Bonsai Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Bonsai Trust Center** — trust center published

## Tags

Company, B2B, Business Management, Freelancing, Agencies, CRM, Project Management, Time Tracking, Invoicing, Proposals, Contracts, Accounting, MCP

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