Brightseed

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.

Brightseed is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Bioactives, Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, and Nutrition.

Brightseed’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 31 more developer resources.

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19.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 6/100 agent aware Front door AI 5/6 prominent Heartbeat 20/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 2 Agent Skills

CompanyBioactivesArtificial Intelligence Life Sciences Nutrition Ingredients Drug Discovery Agrifood content-api WordPress

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Marketing Management

BC-400

pagesposts

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 19.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.4 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 6/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 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

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

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship Ask about this →
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) Ask about this →
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →

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APIs 1

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

Brightseed Website (WordPress REST)

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 surfa...

Agent Skills 2

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

brightseed-browse-site-content

AGENT SKILL

brightseed-search-site-content

AGENT SKILL

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Brightseed

12 quoted statements, read from Brightseed's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Brightseed

25 quoted statements, read from Brightseed's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Brightseed

2 quoted statements, read from Brightseed's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Brightseed

1 quoted statement, read from Brightseed's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Brightseed

1 quoted statement, read from Brightseed's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Security Posture 2

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

Brightseed Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Brightseed Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access (API Evangelist recommendations) 1

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

Brightseed Agentic Access

84 operations · 51 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 6

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact

Contact

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 8

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogFeeds

Newsroom

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Scroll for all 8

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Team

Patents

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

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: '2026-11-13'
  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/
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/brightseed-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/brightseed-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/brightseed-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/brightseed-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/brightseed-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-31'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 36
  pass: local-v1

Brightseed API — frequently asked questions

Does Brightseed have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Brightseed, including Brightseed Website (WordPress REST).

How do I authenticate with the Brightseed API?

Brightseed uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Brightseed Authentication.

Is the Brightseed API ready for AI agents?

Brightseed has a Kin Score of 19.6 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 5.9 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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