# Department of Better Technology

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/department-of-better-technology/  
**Website:** https://dobt.co  
**APIs profiled:** 8

The Department of Better Technology (DOBT), founded in 2013 by former Presidential Innovation Fellows and later acquired by CityBase, builds Screendoor — a form-building and submission- management platform used by government agencies and organizations such as ProPublica, the Los Angeles Times, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, and the Ford Foundation to run paperless intake, evaluation, and approval workflows. The Screendoor REST API programmatically manages sites, projects, forms and form fields, workflow statuses, labels, responses (submissions), response labels, and reviewer assignments, using API-key authentication, offset pagination with RFC 5988 Link headers, and an explicit API version.

## Kin Score — 33.8 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 33.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 13.6 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 47.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

Regulatory layer — **Government & Public Sector**: 38.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 28.4 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **Department of Better Technology Files API** — Upload files referenced by response fields.
- **Department of Better Technology Forms API** — Manage the form fields collected for a project.
- **Department of Better Technology Labels API** — Manage labels used to tag responses within a project.
- **Department of Better Technology Projects API** — Manage projects (forms and their workflow) within a site.
- **Department of Better Technology Response Assignments API** — Assign users or teams to an individual response.
- **Department of Better Technology Response Labels API** — Attach or detach labels on an individual response.
- **Department of Better Technology Responses API** — Create, read, update, trash, and recover form submissions.
- **Department of Better Technology Statuses API** — Manage the status workflow stages for a project's responses.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Department of Better Technology MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Department Of Better Technology Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Department Of Better Technology Domain Security** — TLSv1.3

## Tags

Company, Forms, Government, GovTech, Civic Technology, Workflows, Data Collection, Screendoor, Public Sector, Forms API

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