# cordproject

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cordproject/  
**Website:** https://cordproject.co  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Cordproject Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Voice Messaging, Audio, Messaging, Consumer, Mobile, Acquired

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cordproject/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.