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 1 API on the APIs.io network: Status API. Tagged areas include Company, education, edtech, college-admissions, and counseling.

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

41.9/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 37/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
1 APIs
Companyeducationedtechcollege-admissionscounselingstudentscareer-servicesconsumer-servicesstatus-page

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 41.9/100 · thin
Contract Quality 12.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 12.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13
Governance 2.5 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 37/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 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 0 / 4
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APIs 1

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 ...

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.

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

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.'
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: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- 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
  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
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'