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 1 API on the APIs.io network: API v1. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Intellectual Property, Brand Licensing, and Licensing Management.

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

26.0/100 emerging Agent 62/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 0 Features
CompanyCloudIntellectual PropertyBrand LicensingLicensing ManagementRoyaltiesContractsTrademarksSaaS

API Rating

API Evangelist API Evangelist Rating How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 26.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 9.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 5.2 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.6 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 8.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 62/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs

Brainbase API v1

Brainbase's public REST API v1 (bearer/JWT auth) backing the licensing management application. Exposes user-associated contract retrieval with filtering, search and pagination, ...

MCP Servers

brainbase-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: brainbase
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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Cloud
- Intellectual Property
- Brand Licensing
- Licensing Management
- Royalties
- Contracts
- Trademarks
- SaaS
apis:
- name: Brainbase API v1
  description: Brainbase's public REST API v1 (bearer/JWT auth) backing the licensing management application. Exposes user-associated
    contract retrieval with filtering, search and pagination, plus general application and git build information and runtime-error
    reporting. Auto-generated OpenAPI 3.0 document.
  humanURL: https://api.brainbase.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.brainbase.com
  tags:
  - Contracts
  - Licensing
  - Intellectual Property
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brainbase-openapi-original.json
  - 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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/brainbase-mcp.yml
- 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