# Donkey

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/donkey/  
**Website:** https://donkey.trade  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 7.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.4).

| 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 | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Securities & Market Data**: 23.3 (matched via weak_tags).

## 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)

- **Donkey Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

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

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