Braid

Braid Networks was a creator-economy startup that let creators build customizable landing pages unifying their work across the web (blog posts, videos, podcasts and commerce links), build mailing lists, and engage followers via text and push notifications. Founded by former Facebook product designer Matthew Cahill and software engineer Chris Piro, it raised a $6.8M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Initialized Capital. Braid was a consumer direct-to-fan product and never published a public developer API. The company was acquired by Laurel on 2026-01-01 to power Laurel's Signal product and has since shut down; the braid.network domain no longer serves a site.

Braid is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Creator Economy, Landing Pages, Consumer, and Fintech.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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Company Creator Economy Landing Pages Consumer Fintech Acquired Defunct

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Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Access & Security 1

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aid: braid
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.png
name: Braid
description: Braid Networks was a creator-economy startup that let creators build customizable landing pages unifying their
  work across the web (blog posts, videos, podcasts and commerce links), build mailing lists, and engage followers via text
  and push notifications. Founded by former Facebook product designer Matthew Cahill and software engineer Chris Piro, it
  raised a $6.8M seed round from Andreessen Horowitz (a16z) and Initialized Capital. Braid was a consumer direct-to-fan product
  and never published a public developer API. The company was acquired by Laurel on 2026-01-01 to power Laurel's Signal product
  and has since shut down; the braid.network domain no longer serves a site.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/braid/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: acquired
x-acquired-by: laurel
x-acquired-date: '2026-01-01'
x-has-public-api: false
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Creator Economy
- Landing Pages
- Consumer
- Fintech
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/braid-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://braid.network/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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