# Braid

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/braid/  
**Website:** https://braid.network/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

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

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Braid Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Creator Economy, Landing Pages, Consumer, Fintech, Acquired, Defunct

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