Dotterel

Dotterel Technologies is an Auckland, New Zealand acoustics and audio-hardware company founded in 2015 out of the Callaghan Innovation C-Prize. It began by solving drone noise, building acoustic shrouds, low-noise propellers, and onboard active audio-recording systems for UAVs used in film, security, and noise mapping. That work led to Konos (now marketed as Konos Digital), an 80-element directional MEMS microphone array with a continuously variable 60-300 degree beam width that streams four channels of AES67 / SMPTE ST 2110 audio over a single Power-over-Ethernet cable, targeting film, broadcast, and live-sports production. The microphone exposes a firmware-updatable on-device HTTP control interface (a web page plus a POST control endpoint for beam steering) rather than a public developer web API. Dotterel is backed by Techstars (Adelaide 2017 cohort) and is tracked here as a hardware company; it publishes no public API specification, SDK, or developer portal.

Dotterel is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Audio, Microphones, Acoustics, and Hardware.

Dotterel’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 3 more developer resources.

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7.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 1/6 silent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

0 APIs

Company Audio Microphones Acoustics Hardware Drones Broadcast Film Production

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 7.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.5 / 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

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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.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Drones and Airspace (UAS, UTM, air traffic)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Security Posture 1

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

Dotterel Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: dotterel
name: Dotterel
description: Dotterel Technologies is an Auckland, New Zealand acoustics and audio-hardware company founded in 2015 out of
  the Callaghan Innovation C-Prize. It began by solving drone noise, building acoustic shrouds, low-noise propellers, and
  onboard active audio-recording systems for UAVs used in film, security, and noise mapping. That work led to Konos (now marketed
  as Konos Digital), an 80-element directional MEMS microphone array with a continuously variable 60-300 degree beam width
  that streams four channels of AES67 / SMPTE ST 2110 audio over a single Power-over-Ethernet cable, targeting film, broadcast,
  and live-sports production. The microphone exposes a firmware-updatable on-device HTTP control interface (a web page plus
  a POST control endpoint for beam steering) rather than a public developer web API. Dotterel is backed by Techstars (Adelaide
  2017 cohort) and is tracked here as a hardware company; it publishes no public API specification, SDK, or developer portal.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/dotterel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Dotterel is backed by Techstars (Adelaide 2017 cohort) and is tracked here as a hardware company; it publishes
  no public API specification, SDK, or developer portal.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  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://konos-sound.com/assets/logos/konos-logo-white.svg
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Audio
- Microphones
- Acoustics
- Hardware
- Drones
- Broadcast
- Film Production
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://konos-sound.com/press/
  type: Blog
- type: Website
  url: https://konos-sound.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://konos-sound.com/support
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://konos-sound.com/privacy-policy
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/dotterel-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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