# Formation Bio

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/formation-bio/  
**Website:** https://www.formation.bio  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Formation Bio (formerly TrialSpark, founded 2016 in New York City) is a tech-driven, AI-native pharmaceutical company that aims to bring new treatments to patients faster and more efficiently. Rather than discovering drugs, Formation Bio in-licenses and acquires clinical-stage drug assets from pharma companies, universities, and biotech firms, then develops them using proprietary technology platforms, process automation, and large language models applied across the drug development lifecycle — patient recruitment, e-consent, data management, monitoring, and biostatistics. The company rebranded from TrialSpark to Formation Bio in 2023 as it moved from a pure clinical-trial software platform to combined platform-plus-asset ownership. It raised a $372M Series D in 2024 and announced a first-in-class AI collaboration with Sanofi and OpenAI. Formation Bio operates hybrid teams across New York City, Boston, the San Francisco Bay Area, and North Carolina's Research Triangle. It is a private company with no public developer API program; this profile captures its identity and public web surface for the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 7.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 12.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Formation Bio Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Pharmaceuticals, Biotechnology, Drug Development, Clinical Trials, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Life Sciences

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