Braid Social

Braid (Braid Social) was a creator-economy startup building a direct-to-fan engagement platform for the creator economy. Founded by former Facebook product designer Matthew Cahill and software engineer Chris Piro, Braid let creators build customizable landing pages that consolidated their work across the web (blog posts, videos, podcasts, and commerce links), collect fan phone numbers, and reach followers directly through SMS text messages, push notifications, and mailing lists, with link tracking and cross-platform analytics. Positioned as a creator-friendly, direct-to-audience alternative to algorithm-driven social platforms, Braid raised a $6.8M seed round in August 2023 led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with Initialized Capital. The company appears to be defunct as of this profile — its primary domain (braid.ai) now redirects to a domain-for-sale listing and no developer, documentation, or API surface could be found. Added to the API Evangelist network as an a16z portfolio lead; no public API artifacts exist to enrich.

Braid Social is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Creator Economy, Social, Messaging, and SMS.

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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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CompanyCreator EconomySocialMessagingSMSLanding PagesAnalyticsConsumerDirect-to-Fan

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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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Source (apis.yml)

aid: braid-social
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/braid-social.png
name: Braid Social
description: Braid (Braid Social) was a creator-economy startup building a direct-to-fan engagement platform for the creator
  economy. Founded by former Facebook product designer Matthew Cahill and software engineer Chris Piro, Braid let creators
  build customizable landing pages that consolidated their work across the web (blog posts, videos, podcasts, and commerce
  links), collect fan phone numbers, and reach followers directly through SMS text messages, push notifications, and mailing
  lists, with link tracking and cross-platform analytics. Positioned as a creator-friendly, direct-to-audience alternative
  to algorithm-driven social platforms, Braid raised a $6.8M seed round in August 2023 led by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) with
  Initialized Capital. The company appears to be defunct as of this profile — its primary domain (braid.ai) now redirects
  to a domain-for-sale listing and no developer, documentation, or API surface could be found. Added to the API Evangelist
  network as an a16z portfolio lead; no public API artifacts exist to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/braid-social/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
- Initialized Capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-note: Primary domain braid.ai redirects to a domain-for-sale page; braid.social does not resolve; docs/app/api/developer
  subdomains all fail to connect. No live developer surface found (probed 2026-07-18).
x-founders:
- Matthew Cahill
- Chris Piro
x-funding: Seed $6.8M (2023-08) led by Andreessen Horowitz with Initialized Capital
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Creator Economy
- Social
- Messaging
- SMS
- Landing Pages
- Analytics
- Consumer
- Direct-to-Fan
apis: []
common:
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/braidsocial
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