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 publishes 11 APIs on the APIs.io network, including posts API, pages API, media API, and 8 more. Tagged areas include Company, Bioactives, Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, and Nutrition.

Brightseed’s developer surface includes authentication, engineering blog, and 26 more developer resources.

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34.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

11 APIs

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

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scored 2026-09-14 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 34.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.4 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 15

Access Clarity 3.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 6.1 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · 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 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

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APIs 11

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

Brightseed posts API

The posts API from Brightseed — 13 operation(s) for posts, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed pages API

The pages API from Brightseed — 13 operation(s) for pages, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed media API

The media API from Brightseed — 9 operation(s) for media, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed categories API

The categories API from Brightseed — 7 operation(s) for categories, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed tags API

The tags API from Brightseed — 7 operation(s) for tags, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed users API

The users API from Brightseed — 21 operation(s) for users, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed comments API

The comments API from Brightseed — 7 operation(s) for comments, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed search API

The search API from Brightseed — 1 operation(s) for search, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed taxonomies API

The taxonomies API from Brightseed — 2 operation(s) for taxonomies, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed types API

The types API from Brightseed — 2 operation(s) for types, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

Brightseed statuses API

The statuses API from Brightseed — 2 operation(s) for statuses, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.

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Open Collections 11

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

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) categories API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) comments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) media API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) pages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) posts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) statuses API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) tags API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) taxonomies API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) types API

OPEN COLLECTION

Brightseed Site Content API (WordPress REST API) users API

OPEN COLLECTION

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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 1

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

Brightseed Agentic Access

84 operations · 51 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

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 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 8

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

BlogFeeds

Newsroom

Careers

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

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Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Team

Team

Patents

Patents

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: '2026-09-03'
  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:brightseed-posts-api
  name: Brightseed posts API
  description: The posts API from Brightseed — 13 operation(s) for posts, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Posts
  tags_raw:
  - posts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-posts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-posts-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-pages-api
  name: Brightseed pages API
  description: The pages API from Brightseed — 13 operation(s) for pages, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Pages
  tags_raw:
  - pages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-pages-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-media-api
  name: Brightseed media API
  description: The media API from Brightseed — 9 operation(s) for media, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Media
  tags_raw:
  - media
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-media-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-media-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-categories-api
  name: Brightseed categories API
  description: The categories API from Brightseed — 7 operation(s) for categories, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2
    namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Categories
  tags_raw:
  - categories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-categories-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-categories-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-tags-api
  name: Brightseed tags API
  description: The tags API from Brightseed — 7 operation(s) for tags, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace on
    www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Tags
  tags_raw:
  - tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-tags-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-tags-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-users-api
  name: Brightseed users API
  description: The users API from Brightseed — 21 operation(s) for users, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-users-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-comments-api
  name: Brightseed comments API
  description: The comments API from Brightseed — 7 operation(s) for comments, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Comments
  tags_raw:
  - comments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-comments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-comments-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-search-api
  name: Brightseed search API
  description: The search API from Brightseed — 1 operation(s) for search, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Search
  tags_raw:
  - search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-search-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-taxonomies-api
  name: Brightseed taxonomies API
  description: The taxonomies API from Brightseed — 2 operation(s) for taxonomies, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2
    namespace on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - taxonomies
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-taxonomies-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-taxonomies-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-types-api
  name: Brightseed types API
  description: The types API from Brightseed — 2 operation(s) for types, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Types
  tags_raw:
  - types
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-types-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-types-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
- aid: brightseed:brightseed-statuses-api
  name: Brightseed statuses API
  description: The statuses API from Brightseed — 2 operation(s) for statuses, served by the WordPress REST API wp/v2 namespace
    on www.brightseedbio.com.
  humanURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Status
  tags_raw:
  - statuses
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/brightseed-statuses-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/brightseed-statuses-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.brightseedbio.com/wp-json/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.wordpress.org/rest-api/reference/
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

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