# Expanso

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/expanso/  
**Website:** https://docs.expanso.io  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Expanso is the company behind Bacalhau, an open-source distributed compute orchestration framework that brings compute to the data by running jobs close to where data is generated across edge, on-premise, and cloud environments. Expanso Cloud is the managed platform for deploying intelligent data pipelines at the edge - filtering, transforming, and governing data (PII/GDPR compliance, lineage) before it reaches downstream platforms like Snowflake and Databricks. The Bacalhau Orchestrator API exposes job submission, execution history, results, log streaming, and node/agent management over a versioned REST interface. Expanso is backed by General Catalyst and was named Edge AI Startup of the Year 2026.

## Kin Score — 41.8 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 41.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 37.8 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 34.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 54.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |
| Access Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 21.8 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (2)

- **Expanso Ops API** — The Ops API from Expanso — 6 operation(s) for ops.
- **Expanso Orchestrator API** — The Orchestrator API from Expanso — 11 operation(s) for orchestrator.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Expanso MCP Server** — Candidate MCP tool surface derived one-per-operation from the Bacalhau Orchestrator API OpenAPI. No official hosted Expanso/Bacalhau MCP server was located at time of enrichment...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Expanso Agentic Access** — 20 operations · 5 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

## Security (1)

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

## Tags

Company, Distributed Computing, Edge Computing, Compute Orchestration, Data Pipeline, Data Governance, Open-Source, Artificial Intelligence, Job Orchestration

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