FlyteDesk

flytedesk is the campus advertising platform that connects national brands with college media across the United States. Founded in 2015 in Boulder, Colorado, it operates the largest network of campus media in the US, letting advertisers create, book, manage, and measure national campaigns across print, digital, email newsletters, social, influencer, radio, and out-of-home channels reaching millions of college students. For college publishers and campus media organizations, its self-serve platform provides tools to build, manage, and monetize their media ecosystem, along with an Audience Builder for targeting. flytedesk is backed by Techstars. The company publishes no developer portal, no API reference and no SDK, but it does operate a first-party GraphQL API at api.app.flytedesk.com with introspection enabled, so its full 374-type schema is publicly readable and is captured here.

FlyteDesk is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Advertising, Media, Campus Media, and College Advertising.

FlyteDesk’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 13 more developer resources.

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28.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 3 Agent Skills

Company Advertising MediaCampus MediaCollege AdvertisingMarketing AdTech GraphQL Media Buying Higher Education

Kin Score

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

Composite quality — 28.6/100 · thin

Contract Quality 7.5 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.5 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 6.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 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 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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 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 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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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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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
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
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
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

8 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 35.1 — up to +16.2 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 26.2 — up to +14.8 composite points
Access Clarity scores 27.6 — up to +14.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	builds-on	17.2 (thin)	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

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.

GraphQL

tagged — the provider's own APIs.json carries the standard as a tag; implementation not verified

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

FlyteDesk GraphQL API

The first-party GraphQL API behind the flytedesk application — the campus advertising marketplace covering suppliers (campus media organizations), campuses, buyers, audiences, a...

Agent Skills 3

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

npm-package-update

AGENT SKILL

rails-gem-update

AGENT SKILL

testing-patterns

AGENT SKILL

FlyteDesk API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Flytedesk Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Flytedesk Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Flytedesk Authentication

1 scheme

SECURITY

Flytedesk Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Components

Components

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: flytedesk
name: FlyteDesk
description: flytedesk is the campus advertising platform that connects national brands with college media across the United
  States. Founded in 2015 in Boulder, Colorado, it operates the largest network of campus media in the US, letting advertisers
  create, book, manage, and measure national campaigns across print, digital, email newsletters, social, influencer, radio,
  and out-of-home channels reaching millions of college students. For college publishers and campus media organizations, its
  self-serve platform provides tools to build, manage, and monetize their media ecosystem, along with an Audience Builder
  for targeting. flytedesk is backed by Techstars. The company publishes no developer portal, no API reference and no SDK,
  but it does operate a first-party GraphQL API at api.app.flytedesk.com with introspection enabled, so its full 374-type
  schema is publicly readable and is captured here.
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: quote-only
  onboarding: sales
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Sales-led
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - https://www.flytedesk.com/
  - https://rfp.flytedesk.com/
  generated: '2026-08-12'
  method: searched
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69a96def413819b7db64de8c/69c65e8608f9f4200cad70f3_Homepage_1.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/flytedesk/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: first-party GraphQL contract captured by anonymous introspection
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Advertising
- Media
- Campus Media
- College Advertising
- Marketing
- AdTech
- GraphQL
- Media Buying
- Higher Education
apis:
- name: FlyteDesk GraphQL API
  description: 'The first-party GraphQL API behind the flytedesk application — the campus advertising marketplace covering
    suppliers (campus media organizations), campuses, buyers, audiences, ad shops, campaigns, ads, orders, invoicing and finance
    tracking. It is not a documented developer API: FlyteDesk publishes no portal, no reference and no SDK, and credentials
    are issued by invitation through the product. It is captured here because introspection is enabled on the production endpoint,
    so the complete schema (374 types, 37 queries, 25 mutations) is publicly readable and machine-usable.'
  humanURL: https://app.flytedesk.com/
  baseURL: https://api.app.flytedesk.com/api/graphql
  tags:
  - GraphQL
  - Advertising
  - Campus Media
  properties:
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/flytedesk-graphql.graphql
  - type: GraphQLIntrospection
    url: graphql/flytedesk-introspection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/flytedesk-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/flytedesk-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/flytedesk-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/flytedesk-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/flytedesk-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/flytedesk-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/flytedesk-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/flytedesk-rate-limits.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/flytedesk-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/flytedesk-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/flytedesk-packages.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/flytedesk-components.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/flytedesk-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.flytedesk.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.flytedesk.com/blog
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.flytedesk.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.flytedesk.com/terms-and-conditions
- type: Support
  url: https://www.flytedesk.com/contact
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.flytedesk.com/faq
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Flytedesk
- type: Login
  url: https://platform.flytedesk.com/auth/users/sign_in
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1
  note: Round 1 recorded "The company exposes no public developer API." That was wrong. STEP 0b contract discovery found the
    API base https://api.app.flytedesk.com in the app.flytedesk.com SPA bundle; POSTing a GraphQL introspection query to /api/graphql
    returns HTTP 200 anonymously with the full 374-type schema. FlyteDesk also serves a real llms.txt at www.flytedesk.com/llms.txt
    and publishes three packaged Agent Skills in github.com/Flytedesk/flytedesk-skills. No OpenAPI, no MCP server, no agent
    card, no /.well-known/ document, no pricing page, no status page and no SDK for its own API.

FlyteDesk API — frequently asked questions

Does FlyteDesk have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from FlyteDesk, including FlyteDesk GraphQL API.

How do I authenticate with the FlyteDesk API?

FlyteDesk uses bearer-token authentication (1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Flytedesk Authentication.

Is the FlyteDesk API ready for AI agents?

FlyteDesk has a Kin Score of 28.6 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 24.5 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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