CommonBond

CommonBond was a New York City based financial technology lender founded in 2011 by David Klein, Michael Taormina and Jessup Shean that refinanced student loans for university graduates and originated in-school loans for MBA, law, medical and engineering students, later adding Parent PLUS refinancing and a solar/green home-improvement lending product. It raised institutional debt and equity financing, including a $35M Series B in 2015 and a $150M lending partnership with Nelnet, and operated a consumer lending platform at commonbond.co with an externally documented Postman based API at api-docs.commonbond.co. The company exited student loan refinancing in 2022 after the federal payment and interest pause removed much of the refinance market, pivoted to solar lending, and subsequently wound down. As of this profile the commonbond.co domain is parked and every path on it, including the former API documentation host, returns HTTP 410 Gone, so no public API surface remains to profile.

CommonBond is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Financial-Services, Fintech, Lending, and Student Loans.

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0.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyFinancial-ServicesFintechLendingStudent LoansConsumer FinanceDefunct

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 0.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 3.9 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15
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
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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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: commonbond
name: CommonBond
description: CommonBond was a New York City based financial technology lender founded in 2011 by David Klein, Michael Taormina
  and Jessup Shean that refinanced student loans for university graduates and originated in-school loans for MBA, law, medical
  and engineering students, later adding Parent PLUS refinancing and a solar/green home-improvement lending product. It raised
  institutional debt and equity financing, including a $35M Series B in 2015 and a $150M lending partnership with Nelnet,
  and operated a consumer lending platform at commonbond.co with an externally documented Postman based API at api-docs.commonbond.co.
  The company exited student loan refinancing in 2022 after the federal payment and interest pause removed much of the refinance
  market, pivoted to solar lending, and subsequently wound down. As of this profile the commonbond.co domain is parked and
  every path on it, including the former API documentation host, returns HTTP 410 Gone, so no public API surface remains to
  profile.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/commonbond/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: As of this profile the commonbond.co domain is parked and every path on it, including the former API documentation
  host, returns HTTP 410 Gone, so no public API surface remains to profile.
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-09'
modified: '2026-08-09'
tags:
- Company
- Financial-Services
- Fintech
- Lending
- Student Loans
- Consumer Finance
- Defunct
tags_raw:
- Company
- Financial Services
- Fintech
- Lending
- Student Loans
- Consumer Finance
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://commonbond.co
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-09'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: CommonBond wound down after exiting student loan refinancing in 2022; commonbond.co is now a ParkingCrew "Buy this
    domain" holding page and every path on it — including the former Postman documented API host api-docs.commonbond.co —
    answers HTTP 410 Gone, and the CommonBond GitHub organization holds zero public repositories.
  evidence:
  - url: http://commonbond.co/
    status: 410
  - url: http://api-docs.commonbond.co/
    status: 410
  - url: http://commonbond.co/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 410
  - url: http://commonbond.co/openapi.json
    status: 410
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/commonbond
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-09'

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