CareLuLu

CareLuLu is a consumer marketplace that helps parents find and compare licensed child care — home daycares, child care centers, and preschools. Families can search across roughly 200,000 licensed programs and filter by location, age, hours, tuition, and availability, then view photos, verified parent reviews, and schedule tours or consultations. The service is positioned as an easy, fast, and free way to find safe, high-quality, affordable child care, and it also lets providers list and market their programs to local parents. Backed by 500 Global. Note — CareLuLu runs a consumer web application (an AMP/React SPA) and an internal API host (api.carelulu.com), but does not publish a public developer API, documentation, or SDKs — this profile captures its public website and identity surface only.

CareLuLu is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Childcare, Daycare, Preschool, and Marketplace.

CareLuLu’s developer surface includes signup flow, support, engineering blog, and 5 more developer resources.

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13.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 13.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: carelulu
name: CareLuLu
description: CareLuLu is a consumer marketplace that helps parents find and compare licensed child care — home daycares, child
  care centers, and preschools. Families can search across roughly 200,000 licensed programs and filter by location, age,
  hours, tuition, and availability, then view photos, verified parent reviews, and schedule tours or consultations. The service
  is positioned as an easy, fast, and free way to find safe, high-quality, affordable child care, and it also lets providers
  list and market their programs to local parents. Backed by 500 Global. Note — CareLuLu runs a consumer web application (an
  AMP/React SPA) and an internal API host (api.carelulu.com), but does not publish a public developer API, documentation,
  or SDKs — this profile captures its public website and identity surface only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/carelulu/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://divin2sy6ce0b.cloudfront.net/images/2017-11-06/logo-header-min.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Childcare
- Daycare
- Preschool
- Marketplace
- Parenting
- Directory
- Reviews
tags_raw:
- Company
- Child Care
- Daycare
- Preschool
- Marketplace
- Parenting
- Directory
- Reviews
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.carelulu.com
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.carelulu.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://www.carelulu.com/login
- type: Support
  url: https://www.carelulu.com/contact-us
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.carelulu.com/blog
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.carelulu.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.carelulu.com/privacy-policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/carelulu-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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