BrightKey

BrightKey provides independent strategic education consulting for international families across Asia Pacific. It offers bilingual EN/ZH coverage of 299 universities in 55 countries, helping with school selection, university admissions, and career discovery for ages 0-18. The service operates from Singapore and Tokyo, emphasizing no payments from schools or agents.

BrightKey publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Answers API, Compare API, Roi API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Education, Consulting, International, Family, and Asia Pacific.

The BrightKey catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

BrightKey’s developer surface includes pricing, engineering blog, documentation, support, and 13 more developer resources.

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28.7/100 thin Agent 18/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessFreemium

1 published contract 1 Agent Skills

Education Consulting International Family Asia Pacific

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 28.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 9.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

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 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Education & Research regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 10.1 — up to +18.0 composite points
Contract Quality scores 42.5 — up to +14.4 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 0.0 — up to +13.0 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

BrightKey Answers API

The Answers API from BrightKey — 1 operation(s) for answers.

BrightKey Compare API

The Compare API from BrightKey — 1 operation(s) for compare.

BrightKey Roi API

The Roi API from BrightKey — 2 operation(s) for roi.

BrightKey Schools API

The Schools API from BrightKey — 1 operation(s) for schools.

BrightKey Universities API

The Universities API from BrightKey — 2 operation(s) for universities.

Agent Skills 1

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

brightkey-co-compare-universities

AGENT SKILL

BrightKey API pricing

Prices published by BrightKey.

Plan	Price
Free Discovery Call	free discovery call
Strategy Sessions	$299
Application Support	$1,800 (base plus $500 per additional school)
Tokyo School Advisory	$600

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Brightkey Co Plans Pricing

4 plans

PLANS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

BrightKey API Rules

37 rules · 35 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

Security Posture 1

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

Brightkey Co Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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Brightkey Co Agentic Access

7 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

Spectral

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Pricing

Pricing

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Leadership

Leadership

Source (apis.yml)

aid: brightkey-co
name: BrightKey
description: BrightKey provides independent strategic education consulting for international families across Asia Pacific.
  It offers bilingual EN/ZH coverage of 299 universities in 55 countries, helping with school selection, university admissions,
  and career discovery for ages 0-18. The service operates from Singapore and Tokyo, emphasizing no payments from schools
  or agents.
url: https://artifacts.apis.io/brightkey-co/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:mcp-registry
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment pass 2026-11-03 (modular-v1; was harvest)
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-11-03'
modified: '2026-11-03'
tags:
- Education
- Consulting
- International
- Family
- Asia Pacific
tags_raw:
- Education
- Consulting
- International
- Family
- Asia-Pacific
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/brightkey-co-agentic-access.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/brightkey-co-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/brightkey-co-rules.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/brightkey-co-problem-types.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/brightkey-co-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/brightkey-co-llms.txt
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/brightkey-co-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/brightkey-co-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://brightkey.co/en/terms
- type: Pricing
  url: https://brightkey.co/en/pricing
- type: Leadership
  url: https://brightkey.co/en/about/team
- type: Blog
  url: https://brightkey.co/en/blog
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brightkey-co-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://brightkey.co/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://brightkey.co/en/about
- type: Support
  url: https://brightkey.co/en/contact
apis:
- aid: brightkey-co:brightkey-co-answers-api
  name: BrightKey Answers API
  description: The Answers API from BrightKey — 1 operation(s) for answers.
  humanURL: https://brightkey.co/en/about
  baseURL: https://brightkey.co/v1
  tags:
  - Answers
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightkey-co-answers-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brightkey-co:brightkey-co-compare-api
  name: BrightKey Compare API
  description: The Compare API from BrightKey — 1 operation(s) for compare.
  humanURL: https://brightkey.co/en/about
  baseURL: https://brightkey.co/v1
  tags:
  - Compare
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightkey-co-compare-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brightkey-co:brightkey-co-roi-api
  name: BrightKey Roi API
  description: The Roi API from BrightKey — 2 operation(s) for roi.
  humanURL: https://brightkey.co/en/about
  baseURL: https://brightkey.co/v1
  tags:
  - ROI
  tags_raw:
  - Roi
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightkey-co-roi-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brightkey-co:brightkey-co-schools-api
  name: BrightKey Schools API
  description: The Schools API from BrightKey — 1 operation(s) for schools.
  humanURL: https://brightkey.co/en/about
  baseURL: https://brightkey.co/v1
  tags:
  - Schools
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightkey-co-schools-api-openapi.yml
- aid: brightkey-co:brightkey-co-universities-api
  name: BrightKey Universities API
  description: The Universities API from BrightKey — 2 operation(s) for universities.
  humanURL: https://brightkey.co/en/about
  baseURL: https://brightkey.co/v1
  tags:
  - Universities
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightkey-co-universities-api-openapi.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-11-03'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: modular-v1
  engine: identity=local,contract=local,surfaces=local,docs=local,regulatory=local

BrightKey API — frequently asked questions

Does BrightKey have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from BrightKey, including BrightKey Answers API, BrightKey Compare API and BrightKey Roi API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the BrightKey API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for BrightKey, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the BrightKey API cost?

BrightKey publishes its prices; its Free Discovery Call plan is free discovery call as of 2026-11-03. APIs.io lists 4 pricing plans for BrightKey, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the BrightKey API ready for AI agents?

BrightKey has a Kin Score of 28.7 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 18.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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