Fama

Fama is an AI-powered social media and online screening platform for employment decisions. Its REST API lets HR platforms and background-screening providers submit candidate checks and retrieve behavioral findings — flagged posts, web content, and social profiles — mapped to workplace-misconduct categories across 30+ languages while filtering out protected-class information for EEOC/FCRA-aligned adjudication. Reports are delivered via completion callbacks or polling as JSON or a signed PDF, powering pre-employment screening (Fama Plus), comprehensive candidate assessment (Fama 360), and ongoing employee monitoring (Fama Pulse).

Fama publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Public Endpoints API, Public API, Report API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Employment Screening, Background Checks, Human Resources, and Social Media.

The Fama catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification, 1 JSON-LD context, and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Fama’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 32 more developer resources.

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67.8/100 exemplar ▬ flat Agent 41/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts 2 Agent Skills

Company Employment Screening Background Checks Human Resources Social Media Risk Management Compliance Artificial Intelligence

What this lets a business do 1

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

Human Capital Management

BC-300

Public EndpointsPublicAPI

GET /company/{company_uuid} POST /company/{company_uuid}/check GET /company/{company_uuid}/check POST /api/person

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 67.8/100 · exemplar

Contract Quality 14.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 12.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 4.4 / 10

Contract Governance 3.2 / 9

Discoverability 6.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.8 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 41/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Employment & Payroll regime (on an ambiguous tag, where no other regime matched), 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 applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
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)
Documented Reversibility +6 pts — a reversal operation in the contract, graded up when a window is documented too

4 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Governance scores 35.6 — up to +7.7 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 44.7 — up to +7.2 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 66.1 — up to +6.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 3

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.

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0

measured — observed by APIs.io (declared)

APIs 4

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

Fama REST API

v2 REST API for submitting candidate screening checks and retrieving report findings (person, profiles, posts, web content, summary, and signed PDF). Bearer-token auth; report c...

Fama Public Endpoints API

The Public Endpoints API from Fama — 11 operation(s) for public endpoints.

Fama Public API

endpoints intended for direct use

Fama Report API

The Report API from Fama — 1 operation(s) for report.

Agent Skills 2

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

Review Fama report findings

AGENT SKILL

Run a Fama screening check and retrieve the report

AGENT SKILL

Fama API pricing

Prices published by Fama, read 2026-10-07 from fama.io/pricing.

Plan	Price
Single Report	just $34.99 with a Fama Essential report Includes: Screen 1 candidate; 10,000 online sources plus X for 8 types of misconduct
Multiple Reports	Talk to Sales Includes: Screen multiple candidates at once; 10,000+ sources; ATS/HR integration

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: report (1 candidate) · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Fama Plans Pricing

2 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Fama Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Fama

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Fama Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Fama Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Fama Context

22 classes · 63 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Fama API Rules

14 rules · 12 errors 1 warnings 1 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 3

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

CheckRequest

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CheckResponse

2 properties

JSON SCHEMA

CheckStatus

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Security Posture 3

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

Fama Authentication

http/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Fama Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Fama Trust Center

SOC 2 Type 1

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Fama Agentic Access

26 operations · 2 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 10

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Spectral

JSONLD

Vocabulary

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Webhooks

DataModel

Conformance

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Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

RateLimits

Deprecation

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

Plans

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Newsroom

Newsroom

Blog

Blog

Website

Website

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Hosts

Hosts

Vendors

Vendors

Source (apis.yml)

aid: fama
name: Fama
description: Fama is an AI-powered social media and online screening platform for employment decisions. Its REST API lets
  HR platforms and background-screening providers submit candidate checks and retrieve behavioral findings — flagged posts,
  web content, and social profiles — mapped to workplace-misconduct categories across 30+ languages while filtering out protected-class
  information for EEOC/FCRA-aligned adjudication. Reports are delivered via completion callbacks or polling as JSON or a signed
  PDF, powering pre-employment screening (Fama Plus), comprehensive candidate assessment (Fama 360), and ongoing employee
  monitoring (Fama Pulse).
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fama/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/63ea1ecaf41aeda5d5045103/6622b457a4c9d4fde1e2a424_Fama%20Open%20Graph%20Image%202%201200%20x%20630.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bullpen-capital
x-tier: active
x-tier-reason: public-api-enriched
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
x-docs-platform: readme
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Employment Screening
- Background Checks
- Human Resources
- Social Media
- Risk Management
- Compliance
- Artificial Intelligence
tags_raw:
- Company
- Employment Screening
- Background Checks
- Human Resources
- Social Media
- Risk
- Compliance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Social-Media
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/fama-capability-edges.yml
  name: Fama Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/fama-agentic-access.yml
- type: Spectral
  url: rules/fama-rules.yml
- type: JSONLD
  url: json-ld/fama-context.jsonld
- type: Vocabulary
  url: vocabulary/fama-vocabulary.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/fama-problem-types.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/fama-well-known.yml
- type: Hosts
  url: hosts/fama-hosts.yml
- type: Vendors
  url: vendors/fama-vendors.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://fama.io/terms-and-conditions
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://fama.io/press
- type: Plans
  url: plans/fama-plans-pricing.yml
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.fama.io
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.fama.io
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.fama.io/reference/fama-rest-api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.fama.io/reference/api-token
- type: Support
  url: https://fama.io/contact
- type: Blog
  url: https://fama.io/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://fama.io/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.fama.io
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://fama.io/privacy-policy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.fama.io
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/fama-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/fama-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/fama-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/fama-error-codes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/fama-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/fama-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/fama-lifecycle.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/fama-webhooks.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/fama-sandbox.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/fama-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/fama-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/fama-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.fama.io/
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/fama-trust-center.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/fama-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://fama.io
apis:
- name: Fama REST API
  description: v2 REST API for submitting candidate screening checks and retrieving report findings (person, profiles, posts,
    web content, summary, and signed PDF). Bearer-token auth; report completion via HTTP callback or polling.
  humanURL: https://developer.fama.io/reference/fama-rest-api
  baseURL: https://public-api.fama.io
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.fama.io
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developer.fama.io/reference/fama-rest-api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/fama-authentication.yml
  aid: fama:fama-rest-api
- aid: fama:fama-public-endpoints-api
  name: Fama Public Endpoints API
  description: The Public Endpoints API from Fama — 11 operation(s) for public endpoints.
  humanURL: https://developer.fama.io/reference/fama-rest-api
  baseURL: https://public-api.fama.io
  tags:
  - Public Endpoints
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fama-public-endpoints-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-status-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-response-schema.json
- aid: fama:fama-publicapi-api
  name: Fama Public API
  description: endpoints intended for direct use
  humanURL: https://developer.fama.io/reference/fama-rest-api
  baseURL: https://public-api.fama.io
  tags:
  - Public APIs
  tags_raw:
  - PublicAPI
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fama-publicapi-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-status-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-response-schema.json
- aid: fama:fama-report-api
  name: Fama Report API
  description: The Report API from Fama — 1 operation(s) for report.
  humanURL: https://developer.fama.io/reference/fama-rest-api
  baseURL: https://public-api.fama.io
  tags:
  - Report
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/fama-report-api-openapi.yml
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-status-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-request-schema.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/fama-check-response-schema.json
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-readme-harvest:
  date: '2026-10-14'
  ops: 26
  tool: harvest-readme-openapi.py
  portal: https://developer.fama.io

Fama API — frequently asked questions

Does Fama have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 4 APIs from Fama, including Fama REST API, Fama Public Endpoints API and Fama Public API, and 1 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Fama API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 3 OpenAPI specifications for Fama, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Fama API?

Fama uses bearer-token authentication (http/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Fama Authentication.

How much does the Fama API cost?

Fama publishes its prices; its Single Report plan is just $34.99 with a Fama Essential report as of 2026-10-07. APIs.io lists 2 pricing plans for Fama, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Fama API ready for AI agents?

Fama has a Kin Score of 67.8 out of 100 (exemplar) and an Agent Readiness score of 41.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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