Donkey

Donkey is an AI-native trading company (Y Combinator, Summer 2026) that buys directly from Chinese factories and sells delivered duty-paid to US importers. Donkey mines public US customs records to identify the factory that actually makes a product, returns a landed DDP quote within 72 hours, runs its own on-the-floor quality inspections before the factory is paid, clears customs, moves the money, and offers credit-insured net-45 terms to qualified buyers. Founded by Benjamin Martindale (CEO) and Minghao Tan (CTO), the company runs small teams in San Francisco and China. Donkey publishes no public API, SDK, or developer platform today; this profile tracks its company identity in the API Evangelist network.

Donkey is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Trading, Logistics, Supply Chain, and Manufacturing.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs

Company Trading Logistics Supply Chain Manufacturing Import Customs Cross-Border Y Combinator Artificial Intelligence

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.5 / 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

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Securities & Market Data regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Donkey Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: donkey
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/donkey.png
name: Donkey
description: Donkey is an AI-native trading company (Y Combinator, Summer 2026) that buys directly from Chinese factories
  and sells delivered duty-paid to US importers. Donkey mines public US customs records to identify the factory that actually
  makes a product, returns a landed DDP quote within 72 hours, runs its own on-the-floor quality inspections before the factory
  is paid, clears customs, moves the money, and offers credit-insured net-45 terms to qualified buyers. Founded by Benjamin
  Martindale (CEO) and Minghao Tan (CTO), the company runs small teams in San Francisco and China. Donkey publishes no public
  API, SDK, or developer platform today; this profile tracks its company identity in the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/donkey/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-website: https://donkey.trade
x-yc-batch: Summer 2026
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Trading
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Import
- Customs
- Cross-Border
- Y Combinator
- Artificial Intelligence
tags_raw:
- Company
- Trading
- Logistics
- Supply Chain
- Manufacturing
- Import
- Customs
- Cross-Border
- Y Combinator
- AI
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/donkey-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://donkey.trade
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://donkey.trade/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://donkey.trade/privacy
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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