Empowerly

Empowerly is an education-technology company founded in 2017 by Hanmei Wu and Changxiao Xie that delivers personalized college admissions and career counseling to high-school students. The platform pairs students with a network of more than 100 counselors — including former college admission officers — and layers on data-driven tooling: a proprietary admissions calculator built from thousands of past student outcomes, college-list building, essay editing and review, interview preparation, and startup and research internship placement programs. Students and families work through the Empowerly web portal at app.empowerly.com; counseling packages are sold through an enrollment conversation rather than published price tiers. Empowerly publishes no public developer program, API documentation, or SDKs; the only publicly callable surface on its own domains is the Atlassian-hosted status page API at status.empowerly.com.

Empowerly publishes 4 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Status API, Components API, Incidents API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Education, EdTech, College Admissions, and Counseling.

Empowerly’s developer surface includes engineering blog, pricing, authentication, and 23 more developer resources.

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33.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessOpen

4 APIs

Company Education EdTech College Admissions Counseling StudentsCareer ServicesConsumer Services Status Page

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 33.9/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.4 / 17

Access Clarity 9.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.9 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 10.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 4 / 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 Education & Research regime, 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 does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.

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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APIs 4

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

Empowerly Status API

Read-only, unauthenticated JSON status API served from Empowerly's own status subdomain by Atlassian Statuspage. Exposes the overall page status indicator, the component roster ...

Empowerly Components API

The individual platform components Empowerly reports on.

Empowerly Incidents API

Incident history and currently unresolved incidents.

Empowerly Maintenance API

Scheduled maintenance windows.

Open Collections 1

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

Empowerly Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Empowerly Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Empowerly Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 4

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

Empowerly Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Empowerly Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Empowerly Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Empowerly Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 2

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

WellKnownProbe

WellKnownProbe

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conventions

Conformance

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: empowerly
name: Empowerly
description: 'Empowerly is an education-technology company founded in 2017 by Hanmei Wu and Changxiao Xie that delivers personalized
  college admissions and career counseling to high-school students. The platform pairs students with a network of more than
  100 counselors — including former college admission officers — and layers on data-driven tooling: a proprietary admissions
  calculator built from thousands of past student outcomes, college-list building, essay editing and review, interview preparation,
  and startup and research internship placement programs. Students and families work through the Empowerly web portal at app.empowerly.com;
  counseling packages are sold through an enrollment conversation rather than published price tiers. Empowerly publishes no
  public developer program, API documentation, or SDKs; the only publicly callable surface on its own domains is the Atlassian-hosted
  status page API at status.empowerly.com.'
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: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://empowerly.com/empowerly-icon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/empowerly/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Education
- EdTech
- College Admissions
- Counseling
- Students
- Career Services
- Consumer Services
- Status Page
tags_raw:
- Company
- education
- edtech
- college-admissions
- counseling
- students
- career-services
- consumer-services
- status-page
apis:
- name: Empowerly Status API
  description: Read-only, unauthenticated JSON status API served from Empowerly's own status subdomain by Atlassian Statuspage.
    Exposes the overall page status indicator, the component roster (currently a single "Empowerly Web Portal" component),
    incident history, and scheduled maintenance windows, plus RSS and Atom history feeds. This is a platform-provided surface
    rather than a first-party Empowerly product API — Empowerly operates the page and its content, Atlassian defines the contract.
  humanURL: https://status.empowerly.com/
  baseURL: https://status.empowerly.com/api/v2
  x-hosted-by: Atlassian Statuspage
  tags:
  - Status Page
  - Incidents
  - Uptime
  - Monitoring
  tags_raw:
  - status-page
  - incidents
  - uptime
  - monitoring
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/empowerly-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/empowerly-status-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://status.empowerly.com/
  - type: RSS
    url: https://status.empowerly.com/history.rss
  - type: Atom
    url: https://status.empowerly.com/history.atom
- aid: empowerly:empowerly-components-api
  name: Empowerly Components API
  description: The individual platform components Empowerly reports on.
  humanURL: https://status.empowerly.com/
  baseURL: https://status.empowerly.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Components
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/empowerly-components-api-openapi.yml
- aid: empowerly:empowerly-incidents-api
  name: Empowerly Incidents API
  description: Incident history and currently unresolved incidents.
  humanURL: https://status.empowerly.com/
  baseURL: https://status.empowerly.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Incidents
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/empowerly-incidents-api-openapi.yml
- aid: empowerly:empowerly-maintenance-api
  name: Empowerly Maintenance API
  description: Scheduled maintenance windows.
  humanURL: https://status.empowerly.com/
  baseURL: https://status.empowerly.com/api/v2
  tags:
  - Maintenance
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/empowerly-maintenance-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/empowerly-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/empowerly-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/empowerly-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://empowerly.com/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/empowerly_stock/
- type: Blog
  url: https://empowerly.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://empowerly.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://empowerly.com/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://empowerly.com/privacy-policy
- type: Login
  url: https://app.empowerly.com/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/empowerly
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.empowerly.com/
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/empowerly-lifecycle.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/empowerly-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/empowerly-trust-center.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/empowerly-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/empowerly-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/empowerly-conformance.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/empowerly-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/empowerly-data-model.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/empowerly-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/empowerly-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/empowerly-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/empowerly-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: WellKnownProbe
  url: well-known/empowerly-well-known.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 19
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: Empowerly runs a live production API host (api.empowerly.com/health returns 200 "Empowerly Production API is up
    and running") purely as the private backend for its student web portal, and publishes nothing around it — no developer
    portal, no docs, no spec, no SDKs, no GitHub org; developer.empowerly.com and docs.empowerly.com do not even resolve.
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.empowerly.com/health
    status: 200
  - url: https://api.empowerly.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://empowerly.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://empowerly.com/api
    status: 404
  - url: https://empowerly.com/llms.txt
    status: 403
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/empowerly
    status: 404
  - url: https://status.empowerly.com/api/v2/summary.json
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-12'

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