# Direct Line Group

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/direct-line-group/  
**Website:** https://www.directline.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Direct Line Group is a United Kingdom personal-lines and small-commercial general insurance carrier, founded in 1985 as the UK's first telephone-only motor insurer and listed on the London Stock Exchange from its 2012 IPO until Aviva plc completed its GBP 3.7 billion acquisition of the group on 1 July 2025. The group underwrites motor, home, pet, travel, landlord, breakdown and small-business insurance through the Direct Line, Churchill, Privilege, Darwin, By Miles, Direct Line for Business and Green Flag brands, and is regulated in its home market by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority. Its distribution is direct-to-consumer via telephone and web plus price-comparison-website placement (notably through the Darwin brand), rather than through broker or agency channels; it sold its brokered commercial business (NIG and FarmWeb) to RSA in September 2023, closing the one channel that would have carried standards-based broker integration. Its API posture is accordingly closed and partner-gated: as of 25 July 2026 the corporate domain directlinegroup.co.uk returns HTTP 301 to aviva.com, there is no developer.*, developers.* or docs.* host in DNS, every consumer brand site returns 404 on /developers, /api and /partners, and the only API host that exists — api.directlinegroup.co.uk, resolving to a MuleSoft Anypoint production load balancer — serves HTTP 403 behind an expired TLS certificate and requests a client certificate during the TLS handshake. There is no public self-serve developer portal, no downloadable OpenAPI, no GraphQL, no published webhook or event catalog, no public Postman workspace, and no ACORD reference anywhere in the group's public material. Quote, bind, issue and FNOL are all consumer web and telephone journeys only.

## Kin Score — 10.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.6).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 68.5 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Insurance**: 22.7 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 3.4 (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 | yes |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Security (1)

- **Direct Line Group Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Insurance, United Kingdom, Property and Casualty, Personal Lines, Motor Insurance, Home Insurance, Carrier, Roadside Assistance, Partner Gated

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