Brightseed

aid: brightseed
name: Brightseed
description: Brightseed is a bioactives and AI company founded in 2017 (San Francisco, CA, with operations in Durham, NC)
  that uses its Forager AI platform to map the compounds in plants to human biological pathways and health benefits. Forager
  draws on a proprietary dataset the company describes as the world's largest — 21 million bioactive compounds and hundreds
  of biological receptors spanning 23 health areas — combining high-resolution omics, high-throughput robotics and machine
  learning to predict which natural compounds confer a benefit and where to source them at commercial scale. Hummingbird,
  launched in 2026, layers an agentic AI system on top of Forager to carry partners from discovery through development. Brightseed
  sells discovery services (Bioactive Profiler, Bioactive Ingredient Finder) and market-ready ingredients (Bio Gut Fiber,
  Bio Meta Control, Bio Gut Core) to food, supplement and health-science companies. Brightseed publishes no product or developer
  API for Forager or Hummingbird — those are sold as enterprise engagements through a contact form. The single machine-readable
  surface the company operates is the WordPress REST API (wp/v2) behind its corporate site at www.brightseedbio.com, which
  exposes anonymous read access to posts, pages, categories, tags, users, media, comments, search, taxonomies, types and statuses,
  plus authenticated write operations via WordPress application passwords. This profile was enriched by the API Evangelist
  pipeline from that live surface.
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://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/cropped-Logo-1-270x270.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/brightseed/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-31'
modified: '2026-07-31'
tags:
- Company
- Bioactives
- Artificial Intelligence
- Life Sciences
- Nutrition
- Ingredients
- Drug Discovery
- Agrifood
- content-api
- WordPress
tags_raw:
- Company
- Bioactives
- Artificial Intelligence
- Life Sciences
- Nutrition
- Ingredients
- Drug Discovery
- Agrifood
- Content API
- WordPress
apis:
- aid: brightseed:brightseedbio-com-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Brightseed Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Brightseed website at www.brightseedbio.com: the route index
    of the site''s content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/brightseed-capability-edges.yml
  name: Brightseed Business Capability Map
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/brightseed-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/brightseed-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/brightseed-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/brightseed-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/brightseed-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/brightseed-conformance.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/brightseed-well-known.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/brightseed-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: AgentSkill
  url: skills/brightseed-browse-site-content.md
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/brightseed-search-site-content.md
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/brightseed-agentic-access.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/brightseed-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/brightseed-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/
- type: About
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/team/
- type: Team
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/team/
- type: Blog
  url: https://resources.brightseedbio.com/knowledgebase
- type: BlogFeeds
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/feed/
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/newsroom/
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/careers/
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/contact-us/
- type: Patents
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/patents/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Brightseed
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/brightseedinc
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/brightseedbio
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/terms-of-use/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-31'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 36
  pass: local-v1