Butlr

Butlr is an AI platform for privacy-first, heat-based (thermal) occupancy sensing that turns anonymous people-sensing into real-time space-utilization insight for workplaces, senior living, higher education, retail, and smart buildings. Its camera-free thermal sensors capture no personally identifiable information while powering occupancy, traffic, presence-time, and heatmap analytics. Butlr exposes an API-first platform: a GraphQL asset-management API for sites, buildings, floors, rooms, zones, hives, and sensors; a RESTful Reporting API (v3) for historical time-series occupancy; real-time webhooks for detections, traffic, and occupancy events; and an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for agent access. The company reports 30,000+ deployed sensors generating a billion data points daily across 100M+ square feet in 22 countries.

Butlr is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Sensors, Occupancy, People Sensing, and Smart Buildings.

The Butlr catalog on APIs.io includes 2 event-driven AsyncAPI specifications.

Butlr’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, signup flow, authentication, and 26 more developer resources.

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45.4/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

AccessSelf serve

2 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Sensors OccupancyPeople SensingSmart Buildings Spatial Intelligence IoT GraphQL Webhook Real Estate

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 45.4/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.3 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 10.6 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 4.9 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Building Automation (HVAC, BACnet, KNX, smart buildings)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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.

GraphQL

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

APIs 2

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

Butlr GraphQL API

The Butlr GraphQL API manages spatial assets and their configuration across the organization hierarchy - sites, buildings, floors, rooms, zones, hives, and sensors - plus asset ...

Butlr Reporting API

The Butlr Reporting API is a RESTful, time-series occupancy API for historical space-utilization analysis. A POST query against a windowing/filter body returns aggregated floor,...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Butlr MCP Server

Local (stdio) MCP server; 10 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Event Specifications 2

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Butlr Real-Time Occupancy Webhooks

API Evangelist generated AsyncAPI rendering of Butlr's documented real-time occupancy webhook events. Butlr does not publish an AsyncAPI document; this file is a faithful recons...

ASYNCAPI

Butlr Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

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

Butlr Authentication

oauth2 · 3 schemes

SECURITY

Butlr Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Butlr Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Butlr Scopes

12 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

AsyncAPI

AsyncAPI

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conformance

DataModel

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Deprecation

Deprecation

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: butlr
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/butlr.png
name: Butlr
description: 'Butlr is an AI platform for privacy-first, heat-based (thermal) occupancy sensing that turns anonymous people-sensing
  into real-time space-utilization insight for workplaces, senior living, higher education, retail, and smart buildings. Its
  camera-free thermal sensors capture no personally identifiable information while powering occupancy, traffic, presence-time,
  and heatmap analytics. Butlr exposes an API-first platform: a GraphQL asset-management API for sites, buildings, floors,
  rooms, zones, hives, and sensors; a RESTful Reporting API (v3) for historical time-series occupancy; real-time webhooks
  for detections, traffic, and occupancy events; and an official Model Context Protocol (MCP) server for agent access. The
  company reports 30,000+ deployed sensors generating a billion data points daily across 100M+ square feet in 22 countries.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/butlr/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- foundry-group
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: gitbook
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
tags:
- Company
- Sensors
- Occupancy
- People Sensing
- Smart Buildings
- Spatial Intelligence
- IoT
- GraphQL
- Webhook
- Real Estate
tags_raw:
- Company
- Sensors
- Occupancy
- People Sensing
- Smart Buildings
- Spatial Intelligence
- IoT
- GraphQL
- Webhooks
- Real Estate
- Real-Estate
apis:
- aid: butlr:butlr-graphql-api
  name: Butlr GraphQL API
  tags:
  - Assets
  - Sites
  - Buildings
  - Floors
  - Rooms
  - Zones
  - Hives
  - Sensors
  - Tags
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Assets
  - Sites
  - Buildings
  - Floors
  - Rooms
  - Zones
  - Hives
  - Sensors
  - Tags
  - Webhooks
  humanURL: https://docs.butlr.io/asset-management/graphql-api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.butlr.io/api/v3/graphql
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.butlr.io/asset-management/graphql-api-overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://graphql-docs.butlr.io/graphql/
    type: APIReference
  - url: https://graphql-docs.butlr.io/graphql/
    type: GraphQL
  description: The Butlr GraphQL API manages spatial assets and their configuration across the organization hierarchy - sites,
    buildings, floors, rooms, zones, hives, and sensors - plus asset tags and self-service webhook subscriptions. It supports
    querying and mutating (create/update/delete) resources with fine-grained field selection and filtering, and is the control
    plane for the occupancy platform.
- aid: butlr:butlr-reporting-api
  name: Butlr Reporting API
  tags:
  - Occupancy
  - Traffic
  - Presence Time
  - Heatmap
  - Statistics
  - Time Series
  - Historical
  - Floors
  - Rooms
  - Zones
  humanURL: https://docs.butlr.io/historical-occupancy/reporting-api-overview
  baseURL: https://api.butlr.io/api/v3/reporting
  properties:
  - url: https://docs.butlr.io/historical-occupancy/reporting-api-overview
    type: Documentation
  - url: https://docs.butlr.io/historical-occupancy/faqs
    type: APIReference
  description: The Butlr Reporting API is a RESTful, time-series occupancy API for historical space-utilization analysis.
    A POST query against a windowing/filter body returns aggregated floor, room, and zone occupancy, entryway traffic, presence
    time, per-interval statistics, and heatmaps with configurable windows (1m/1h/1d), aggregation functions (mean/max/sum/median),
    timezones, and tag-based grouping.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.butlr.com/blog
  type: Blog
- url: https://www.butlr.com/blog/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.butlr.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.butlr.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.butlr.io
- type: APIReference
  url: https://graphql-docs.butlr.io/graphql/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.butlr.io/getting-started
- type: Support
  url: https://support.butlr.io
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.butlr.io/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/butlrtechnologies
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.butlr.io
- type: Login
  url: https://app.butlr.io
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.butlr.io/legal/tc
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.butlr.io/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/butlr-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/butlr-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/butlr-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/butlr-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/butlr-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/butlr-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/butlr-well-known.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/butlr-webhooks.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/butlr-events-asyncapi.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/butlr-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/butlr-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/butlr-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/butlr-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/butlr-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/butlr-data-model.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/butlr-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/butlr-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/butlr-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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