cordproject

Cord Project Inc. was a New York based startup founded around 2014 by former Google Creative Lab designers Thomas Gayno and Jeff Baxter. Its flagship product, Cord, was a voice messaging app that let people send short audio clips as a middle ground between texting and phone calls. The company raised seed funding from investors including Google Ventures, Greycroft, Lerer Hippeau, Metamorphic Ventures and Slow Ventures, and was acquired by Spotify in January 2016 to explore new ways of interacting with audio. There is no public developer API, SDK, or documentation; this profile is retained as a Slow Ventures portfolio lead in the API Evangelist network.

cordproject is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Voice Messaging, Audio, Messaging, and Consumer.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyVoice MessagingAudioMessagingConsumerMobileAcquired

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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

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Access & Security 1

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Company 1

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Source (apis.yml)

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  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
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  method: derived
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name: cordproject
description: Cord Project Inc. was a New York based startup founded around 2014 by former Google Creative Lab designers Thomas
  Gayno and Jeff Baxter. Its flagship product, Cord, was a voice messaging app that let people send short audio clips as a
  middle ground between texting and phone calls. The company raised seed funding from investors including Google Ventures,
  Greycroft, Lerer Hippeau, Metamorphic Ventures and Slow Ventures, and was acquired by Spotify in January 2016 to explore
  new ways of interacting with audio. There is no public developer API, SDK, or documentation; this profile is retained as
  a Slow Ventures portfolio lead in the API Evangelist network.
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x-status: acquired
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Voice Messaging
- Audio
- Messaging
- Consumer
- Mobile
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
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- type: Website
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  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

cordproject

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Cordproject Domain Security

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Company 1

Source (apis.yml)