Causa Prima

Causa Prima is an AI-native fintech building an agent-to-agent network for finance teams — automating invoicing, dispute resolution, and dynamic (early-payment) discounting between buyers and suppliers. Its first public product, Scribo, is a free, EN 16931-compliant e-invoicing engine that generates German ZUGFeRD and XRechnung, plus plain US PDF invoices, through five surfaces: a web UI, an HTTP API, a hosted MCP server, an npm CLI, and a Claude / ChatGPT / Codex Agent Skill — all backed by the same public /api/v1 API with no signup (the sender's email is the login via a magic link). The team previously built Taulia (acquired by SAP) and Finoa; Causa Prima is backed by Creandum.

Causa Prima publishes 3 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Invoices API, Jurisdictions API, and Scribo API. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Fintech, E-Invoicing, and Invoicing.

The Causa Prima catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Causa Prima’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, CLI, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.

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43.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 47/100 agent native Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 37/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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1 published contract 1 MCP Servers 1 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence Fintech E-Invoicing Invoicing Payments Compliance GermanyEN 16931Agents MCP

What this lets a business do 1

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

Financial Management

BC-200

Invoices

POST /api/v1/invoices

Kin Score

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Composite quality — 43.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.8 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.6 / 15

Access Clarity 4.3 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 10

Contract Governance 2.9 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 47/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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 0 / 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):

A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Access Clarity scores 28.9 — up to +14.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 2.6 — up to +12.7 composite points
Contract Quality scores 52.2 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	undeclared	-	1	1
EU/EEA Payment and E-Money Institutions (PSD2 passports)	undeclared	-	1	1

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Standards implemented 3

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 3

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

Causa Prima Invoices API

The Invoices API from Causa Prima — 3 operation(s) for invoices.

Causa Prima Jurisdictions API

The Jurisdictions API from Causa Prima — 1 operation(s) for jurisdictions.

Causa Prima Scribo API

The Scribo API from Causa Prima — 4 operation(s) for scribo.

Open Collections 3

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

Scribo Invoice Invoices API

OPEN COLLECTION

Scribo Invoice Invoices Jurisdictions API

OPEN COLLECTION

Invoice Invoices Scribo API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

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

Causa Prima MCP Server

Hosted Scribo MCP server for free EN 16931-compliant e-invoice generation. Compatible with Claude Desktop/Claude.ai (custom connector), Cursor, Cline, ChatGPT App, and OpenAI Co...

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 1

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

scribo

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Causa Prima API Rules

57 rules · 51 errors 3 warnings 3 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.

Causa Prima Scribo Overlay

3 actions · update · causa-prima-scribo-openapi.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Causa Prima Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Causa Prima Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Causa Prima Agentic Access

8 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

OpenAPI

OpenAPI

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Idempotency

DataModel

Conformance

Lifecycle

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

CLI

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Compliance

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: causa-prima
name: Causa Prima
description: 'Causa Prima is an AI-native fintech building an agent-to-agent network for finance teams — automating invoicing,
  dispute resolution, and dynamic (early-payment) discounting between buyers and suppliers. Its first public product, Scribo,
  is a free, EN 16931-compliant e-invoicing engine that generates German ZUGFeRD and XRechnung, plus plain US PDF invoices,
  through five surfaces: a web UI, an HTTP API, a hosted MCP server, an npm CLI, and a Claude / ChatGPT / Codex Agent Skill
  — all backed by the same public /api/v1 API with no signup (the sender''s email is the login via a magic link). The team
  previously built Taulia (acquired by SAP) and Finoa; Causa Prima is backed by Creandum.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/causa-prima/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- creandum
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Open access
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
image: https://causaprima.ai/og-image.jpg
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Fintech
- E-Invoicing
- Invoicing
- Payments
- Compliance
- Germany
- EN 16931
- Agents
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- AI
- Fintech
- E-Invoicing
- Invoicing
- Payments
- Compliance
- Germany
- EN 16931
- Agents
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: causa-prima:causa-prima-invoices-api
  name: Causa Prima Invoices API
  description: The Invoices API from Causa Prima — 3 operation(s) for invoices.
  humanURL: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
  baseURL: https://scribo.causaprima.ai
  tags:
  - Invoices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/causa-prima-invoices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
- aid: causa-prima:causa-prima-jurisdictions-api
  name: Causa Prima Jurisdictions API
  description: The Jurisdictions API from Causa Prima — 1 operation(s) for jurisdictions.
  humanURL: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
  baseURL: https://scribo.causaprima.ai
  tags:
  - Jurisdictions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/causa-prima-jurisdictions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
- aid: causa-prima:causa-prima-scribo-api
  name: Causa Prima Scribo API
  description: The Scribo API from Causa Prima — 4 operation(s) for scribo.
  humanURL: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
  baseURL: https://scribo.causaprima.ai
  tags:
  - Scribo
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/causa-prima-scribo-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/causa-prima-capability-edges.yml
  name: Causa Prima Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://causaprima.ai/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/docs/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/getting-started
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/causa-prima-ai
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://causaprima.ai/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://causaprima.ai/privacy
- type: Compliance
  url: https://scribo.causaprima.ai/compliance
- type: OpenAPI
  url: openapi/_original/causa-prima-scribo-openapi.json
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/causa-prima-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/causa-prima-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/causa-prima-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/causa-prima-cli.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/causa-prima-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/causa-prima-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/causa-prima-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/causa-prima-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/causa-prima-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/causa-prima-lifecycle.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/causa-prima-scribo-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/causa-prima-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/causa-prima-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/causa-prima-authentication.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Causa Prima API — frequently asked questions

Does Causa Prima have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 3 APIs from Causa Prima, including Causa Prima Invoices API, Causa Prima Jurisdictions API and Causa Prima Scribo API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Causa Prima API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Causa Prima, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Causa Prima API?

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

Does Causa Prima have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Causa Prima: Hosted Scribo MCP server for free EN 16931-compliant e-invoice generation. Compatible with Claude Desktop/Claude.ai (custom connector), Cursor, Cline, ChatGPT App, and OpenAI Codex CLI. No install, no

Is the Causa Prima API ready for AI agents?

Causa Prima has a Kin Score of 43.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 47.4 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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