Puppetry

ELBO AI, INC operates Puppetry (puppetry.com), an AI video-creation platform that turns any portrait photo into a realistic lip-synced talking-head video. Users upload an image, provide a script or audio, pick from 500+ AI voices across 65+ languages, and Puppetry renders a video in minutes — with voice cloning, AI Stories multi-scene storytelling, caption studio, and cartoon/object animation. Beyond the studio web and iOS apps and a Canva integration, Puppetry ships a Developer API beta (Studio plan) for agents and app integrations: a Puppetry Voice API (list voices + TTS), hosted audio uploads with signed URLs, and credit-backed text-to-video and audio-to-video jobs with idempotent creation and job-and-poll status. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an official TypeScript SDK, an MCP server, llms.txt, and an ai-plugin.json manifest. Founded by ex-Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon engineers; backed by 500 Global.

Puppetry publishes 5 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including ELBO AI, INC Audio Uploads API, ELBO AI, INC Text to Speech API, ELBO AI, INC Usage API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, Video, Text-to-Speech, and Voice.

The Puppetry catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Puppetry’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, changelog, support, pricing, and 25 more developer resources.

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50.5/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 44/100 agent native Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 54/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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2 published contracts 1 MCP Servers 3 Agent Skills

Company Artificial Intelligence Video Text-to-Speech Voice Generative AI Avatars Content Creation Developer API MCP

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

AI Model Services

AE-110

Text To SpeechVideos

POST /api/v1/tts/puppetry POST /api/v1/videos/text POST /api/v1/videos/audio

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 50.5/100 · developing

Contract Quality 10.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 6.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.4 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 44/100 · agent native

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too
Pagination +5 pts — share of collection GETs (an array, or one wrapped in data/items/results ...) that declare a page/limit/offset/cursor parameter, a Link header or a next/cursor field; na with no collection GETs

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 44.7 — up to +11.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 15.8 — up to +10.9 composite points
Contract Quality scores 56.6 — up to +10.9 composite points

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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 5

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

ELBO AI, INC Audio Uploads API

The Audio Uploads API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for audio uploads.

ELBO AI, INC Text to Speech API

The Text to Speech API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for text to speech.

ELBO AI, INC Usage API

The Usage API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for usage.

ELBO AI, INC Videos API

The Videos API from ELBO AI, INC — 3 operation(s) for videos.

ELBO AI, INC Voices API

The Voices API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for voices.

Open Collections 5

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Puppetry Developer API Beta Audio Uploads API

OPEN COLLECTION

Puppetry Developer API Beta Audio Uploads Text to Speech API

OPEN COLLECTION

Puppetry Developer API Beta Audio Uploads Usage API

OPEN COLLECTION

Puppetry Developer API Beta Audio Uploads Videos API

OPEN COLLECTION

Puppetry Developer API Beta Audio Uploads Voices API

OPEN COLLECTION

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Puppetry MCP Server

Official Puppetry MCP server — turn any portrait photo into a talking AI video with 500+ voices.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Upload audio and create a lip-synced video

AGENT SKILL

Create a talking video from a photo and script

AGENT SKILL

Generate Puppetry TTS speech

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Puppetry API Rules

70 rules · 67 errors 2 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Elbo Ai Inc Puppetry Overlay

3 actions · update · elbo-ai-inc-puppetry-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Elbo Ai Inc Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Elbo Ai Inc Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Elbo Ai Inc Agentic Access

7 operations · 4 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Idempotency

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

SDKs

SDKs

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ChangeLog

Support

RateLimits

Changelog

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: elbo-ai-inc
name: Puppetry
description: 'ELBO AI, INC operates Puppetry (puppetry.com), an AI video-creation platform that turns any portrait photo into
  a realistic lip-synced talking-head video. Users upload an image, provide a script or audio, pick from 500+ AI voices across
  65+ languages, and Puppetry renders a video in minutes — with voice cloning, AI Stories multi-scene storytelling, caption
  studio, and cartoon/object animation. Beyond the studio web and iOS apps and a Canva integration, Puppetry ships a Developer
  API beta (Studio plan) for agents and app integrations: a Puppetry Voice API (list voices + TTS), hosted audio uploads with
  signed URLs, and credit-backed text-to-video and audio-to-video jobs with idempotent creation and job-and-poll status. It
  publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an official TypeScript SDK, an MCP server, llms.txt, and an ai-plugin.json manifest. Founded
  by ex-Google/Microsoft/Apple/Amazon engineers; backed by 500 Global.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/elbo-ai-inc/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.puppetry.com/puppetry-logo.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Video
- Text-to-Speech
- Voice
- Generative AI
- Avatars
- Content Creation
- Developer API
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Video
- Text to Speech
- Voice
- Generative AI
- Avatars
- Content Creation
- Developer API
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: elbo-ai-inc:elbo-ai-inc-audio-uploads-api
  name: ELBO AI, INC Audio Uploads API
  description: The Audio Uploads API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for audio uploads.
  humanURL: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  baseURL: https://www.puppetry.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Audio Uploads
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elbo-ai-inc-audio-uploads-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/for-agents
- aid: elbo-ai-inc:elbo-ai-inc-text-to-speech-api
  name: ELBO AI, INC Text to Speech API
  description: The Text to Speech API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for text to speech.
  humanURL: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  baseURL: https://www.puppetry.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Text-to-Speech
  tags_raw:
  - Text to Speech
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elbo-ai-inc-text-to-speech-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/for-agents
- aid: elbo-ai-inc:elbo-ai-inc-usage-api
  name: ELBO AI, INC Usage API
  description: The Usage API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for usage.
  humanURL: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  baseURL: https://www.puppetry.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Usage
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elbo-ai-inc-usage-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/for-agents
- aid: elbo-ai-inc:elbo-ai-inc-videos-api
  name: ELBO AI, INC Videos API
  description: The Videos API from ELBO AI, INC — 3 operation(s) for videos.
  humanURL: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  baseURL: https://www.puppetry.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Video
  tags_raw:
  - Videos
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elbo-ai-inc-videos-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/for-agents
- aid: elbo-ai-inc:elbo-ai-inc-voices-api
  name: ELBO AI, INC Voices API
  description: The Voices API from ELBO AI, INC — 1 operation(s) for voices.
  humanURL: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  baseURL: https://www.puppetry.com/api/v1
  tags:
  - Voice
  tags_raw:
  - Voices
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/elbo-ai-inc-voices-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.puppetry.com/for-agents
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/elbo-ai-inc-capability-edges.yml
  name: Puppetry Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/elbo-ai-inc-puppetry-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://puppetry.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/for-agents
- type: APIReference
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/developer
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/blog
- type: ChangeLog
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/changelog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/support
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/sign-up
- type: Login
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/sign-in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.puppetry.com/privacy
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/elbo-ai-inc-packages.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/elbo-ai-inc-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/elbo-ai-inc-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/elbo-ai-inc-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/elbo-ai-inc-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/elbo-ai-inc-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/elbo-ai-inc-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/elbo-ai-inc-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: conventions/elbo-ai-inc-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/elbo-ai-inc-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/elbo-ai-inc-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/elbo-ai-inc-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/elbo-ai-inc-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/elbo-ai-inc-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/elbo-ai-inc-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Changelog
  url: changelog/elbo-ai-inc-changelog.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-legal-name: ELBO AI, INC

Puppetry API — frequently asked questions

Does Puppetry have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 5 APIs from Puppetry, including ELBO AI, INC Audio Uploads API, ELBO AI, INC Text to Speech API and ELBO AI, INC Usage API, and 2 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Puppetry API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 5 OpenAPI specifications for Puppetry, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Puppetry API?

Puppetry uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Elbo Ai Inc Authentication.

Does Puppetry have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Puppetry: Official Puppetry MCP server — turn any portrait photo into a talking AI video with 500+ voices.

Is the Puppetry API ready for AI agents?

Puppetry has a Kin Score of 50.5 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 43.6 (agent-native), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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