Brainbase

Brainbase is a modern, end-to-end brand-licensing and intellectual-property management platform used by global licensing businesses to run their licensing, partnership and sponsorship programs from a single system of record. The product covers the full IP lifecycle — trademarks, patents, copyrights, licences, products and royalties — consolidating contract management, royalty calculation, sales-data reporting and contract-compliance workflows for brand owners, licensors and their partners. Founded in 2016 in Los Angeles by Nate Cavanaugh, Brainbase raised an $8M Series A in 2020 led by Bessemer Venture Partners and Nosara Capital, and was acquired by PYXiS Software Group (a division of Jonas Software) in 2022. The public marketing apex (www.brainbase.com) no longer resolves post-acquisition; the SaaS application remains live at app.brainbase.com and exposes a small public REST API (bearer/JWT) at api.brainbase.com with an auto-generated OpenAPI document at api.brainbase.com/docs. This profile was surfaced from the Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from the live API surface.

Brainbase publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: ApiContract API and General API. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Intellectual Property, Brand Licensing, and Licensing Management.

Brainbase’s developer surface includes authentication and 11 more developer resources.

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22.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0
1 APIs
CompanyCloudIntellectual PropertyBrand LicensingLicensing ManagementRoyaltiesContractsTrademarksSoftware-as-a-Service

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-19 · rubric v0.22.0
Composite quality — 22.3/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 9.0 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 3.7 / 18
Access Clarity 1.2 / 18
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 12
Contract Governance 0.0 / 11
Discoverability 6.8 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Brainbase ApiContract API

ApiContractController endpoints

Brainbase General API

GeneralController endpoints

Open Collections 3

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

API v1 ApiContract API

OPEN COLLECTION

API v1 ApiContract General API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Brainbase Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Brainbase Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Brainbase Agentic Access

4 operations · 2 acting · 2 human-in-the-loop

4 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 Authentication
Authentication

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: brainbase
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/brainbase.png
name: Brainbase
description: Brainbase is a modern, end-to-end brand-licensing and intellectual-property management platform used by global
  licensing businesses to run their licensing, partnership and sponsorship programs from a single system of record. The product
  covers the full IP lifecycle — trademarks, patents, copyrights, licences, products and royalties — consolidating contract
  management, royalty calculation, sales-data reporting and contract-compliance workflows for brand owners, licensors and
  their partners. Founded in 2016 in Los Angeles by Nate Cavanaugh, Brainbase raised an $8M Series A in 2020 led by Bessemer
  Venture Partners and Nosara Capital, and was acquired by PYXiS Software Group (a division of Jonas Software) in 2022. The
  public marketing apex (www.brainbase.com) no longer resolves post-acquisition; the SaaS application remains live at app.brainbase.com
  and exposes a small public REST API (bearer/JWT) at api.brainbase.com with an auto-generated OpenAPI document at api.brainbase.com/docs.
  This profile was surfaced from the Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio and enriched by the API Evangelist pipeline from
  the live API surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brainbase/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bessemer-venture-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: pyxis-software-group
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Cloud
- Intellectual Property
- Brand Licensing
- Licensing Management
- Royalties
- Contracts
- Trademarks
- Software-as-a-Service
tags_raw:
- Company
- Cloud
- Intellectual Property
- Brand Licensing
- Licensing Management
- Royalties
- Contracts
- Trademarks
- SaaS
apis:
- aid: brainbase:brainbase-apicontract-api
  name: Brainbase ApiContract API
  description: ApiContractController endpoints
  humanURL: https://api.brainbase.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.brainbase.com
  tags:
  - API Contract
  tags_raw:
  - ApiContract
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brainbase-apicontract-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.brainbase.com/docs
- aid: brainbase:brainbase-general-api
  name: Brainbase General API
  description: GeneralController endpoints
  humanURL: https://api.brainbase.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.brainbase.com
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - General
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brainbase-general-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.brainbase.com/docs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brainbase-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/brainbase-conventions.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/brainbase-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/brainbase-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/brainbase-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/brainbase-data-model.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/brainbase-well-known.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/brainbase-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brainbase-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.brainbase.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.brainbase.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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