# Brightseed

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/brightseed/  
**Website:** https://www.brightseedbio.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 11

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.

## Kin Score — 33.7 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-24 under rubric 0.13.0. Trend: flat (-0.4 from 34.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 55.7 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 31.3 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 23.9 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (11)

- **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.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Brightseed MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Brightseed Agentic Access** — 84 operations · 51 acting

## Security (2)

- **Brightseed Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Brightseed Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Bioactives, Artificial Intelligence, Life Sciences, Nutrition, Ingredients, Drug Discovery, Agrifood, content-api, WordPress

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/brightseed/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.