Cargomatic

Cargomatic is a technology-enabled marketplace for local freight and drayage that connects shippers with a network of more than 35,000 professional truck drivers across the top 20 ports in the continental United States. Its platform automates quoting, booking, dispatch, tracking, and document exchange for drayage, intermodal, less-than-truckload (LTL), full-truckload (FTL), and white-glove final-mile delivery. Cargomatic exposes a public REST API (the Cargomatic Public API) so shippers and carriers can automate the same quoting, order-creation, shipment-status, stop-management, driver-assignment, and document workflows available in the Cargomatic portal, authenticating with JWT bearer tokens issued from an authentication endpoint. The company is headquartered in Long Beach, California and is backed by Canaan Partners and the SoftBank Vision Fund.

Cargomatic publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Authorization API, Carrier API, Document API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Logistics, Freight, Drayage, and Transportation.

The Cargomatic catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Cargomatic’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, FAQ, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.

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33.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 published contract 2 Agent Skills

Company Logistics Freight Drayage Transportation Supply Chain Shipping Trucking Marketplace Intermodal

What this lets a business do 1

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

Transport Operations Management

BC-2420

Carrier

POST /shipments/appointment POST /shipments/accept POST /carrier/{carrierId}/driver PUT /shipment/assign

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-02 · rubric v0.26.0

Composite quality — 33.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 8.5 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 15

Access Clarity 5.1 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 24/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 25.6 — up to +14.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 45.1 — up to +13.7 composite points
Access Clarity scores 34.2 — up to +13.2 composite points

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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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

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

Cargomatic Authorization API

Endpoints dealing with authenticating to the API

Cargomatic Carrier API

Endpoints for Cargomatic Carriers and Drivers

Cargomatic Document API

The Document API from Cargomatic — 2 operation(s) for document.

Cargomatic Shipper API

Endpoints for Cargomatic Shippers

Cargomatic Stops API

Endpoints for managing shipment stops

Open Collections 5

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

Cargomatic Public Authorization API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargomatic Public Authorization Carrier API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargomatic Public Authorization Document API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargomatic Public Authorization Shipper API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cargomatic Public Authorization Stops API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 2

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

Accept a shipment and dispatch a driver with Cargomatic

AGENT SKILL

Quote, order, and create a shipment with Cargomatic

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Cargomatic API Rules

59 rules · 49 errors 8 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Cargomatic Public Api Overlay

2 actions · update · cargomatic-openapi-original.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Cargomatic Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Cargomatic Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Conformance

DataModel

Lifecycle

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 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

SupportContact

FAQ

SupportEmail

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

Careers

About

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: cargomatic
name: Cargomatic
description: Cargomatic is a technology-enabled marketplace for local freight and drayage that connects shippers with a network
  of more than 35,000 professional truck drivers across the top 20 ports in the continental United States. Its platform automates
  quoting, booking, dispatch, tracking, and document exchange for drayage, intermodal, less-than-truckload (LTL), full-truckload
  (FTL), and white-glove final-mile delivery. Cargomatic exposes a public REST API (the Cargomatic Public API) so shippers
  and carriers can automate the same quoting, order-creation, shipment-status, stop-management, driver-assignment, and document
  workflows available in the Cargomatic portal, authenticating with JWT bearer tokens issued from an authentication endpoint.
  The company is headquartered in Long Beach, California and is backed by Canaan Partners and the SoftBank Vision Fund.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cargomatic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-02'
  method: derived
image: https://cargomatic.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/cargomatic-logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- canaan-partners
- softbank-vision-fund
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pipeline-found-public-api
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
x-docs-platform: scalar
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-09-21
tags:
- Company
- Logistics
- Freight
- Drayage
- Transportation
- Supply Chain
- Shipping
- Trucking
- Marketplace
- Intermodal
apis:
- aid: cargomatic:cargomatic-authorization-api
  name: Cargomatic Authorization API
  description: Endpoints dealing with authenticating to the API
  humanURL: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  baseURL: https://api.cargomatic.com
  tags:
  - Authorization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargomatic-authorization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- aid: cargomatic:cargomatic-carrier-api
  name: Cargomatic Carrier API
  description: Endpoints for Cargomatic Carriers and Drivers
  humanURL: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  baseURL: https://api.cargomatic.com
  tags:
  - Carrier
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargomatic-carrier-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- aid: cargomatic:cargomatic-document-api
  name: Cargomatic Document API
  description: The Document API from Cargomatic — 2 operation(s) for document.
  humanURL: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  baseURL: https://api.cargomatic.com
  tags:
  - Documents
  tags_raw:
  - Document
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargomatic-document-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- aid: cargomatic:cargomatic-shipper-api
  name: Cargomatic Shipper API
  description: Endpoints for Cargomatic Shippers
  humanURL: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  baseURL: https://api.cargomatic.com
  tags:
  - Shippers
  tags_raw:
  - Shipper
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargomatic-shipper-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- aid: cargomatic:cargomatic-stops-api
  name: Cargomatic Stops API
  description: Endpoints for managing shipment stops
  humanURL: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  baseURL: https://api.cargomatic.com
  tags:
  - Stops
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cargomatic-stops-api-openapi.yml
  - type: DeveloperPortal
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cargomatic-capability-edges.yml
  name: Cargomatic Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cargomatic-public-api-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://cargomatic.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api-docs.cargomatic.com/#/
- type: Support
  url: https://cargomatic.com/support/
- type: SupportContact
  url: https://cargomatic.com/support/contact-us/
- type: FAQ
  url: https://cargomatic.com/support/faq/
- type: Blog
  url: https://cargomatic.com/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/cargomatic
- type: SignUp
  url: https://cargomatic.com/sign-up/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cargomatic.com/terms-of-service/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://cargomatic.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Careers
  url: https://cargomatic.com/about/careers/
- type: About
  url: https://cargomatic.com/about/
- type: SupportEmail
  url: mailto:apisupport@cargomatic.com
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/cargomatic-openapi-original.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cargomatic-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cargomatic-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cargomatic-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cargomatic-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cargomatic-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cargomatic-lifecycle.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/cargomatic-sandbox.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/cargomatic-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.'
  name: Cargomatic MCP Server manifest (candidate)
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cargomatic-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cargomatic-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

Cargomatic API — frequently asked questions

Does Cargomatic have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Cargomatic, including Cargomatic Authorization API, Cargomatic Carrier API and Cargomatic Document API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Cargomatic API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Cargomatic, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Cargomatic API?

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

Is the Cargomatic API ready for AI agents?

Cargomatic has a Kin Score of 33.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 23.8 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-02.

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