Forsta

Forsta is the customer experience and market research technology company formed from the 2021 merger of Confirmit, FocusVision and Dapresy, and acquired by Press Ganey in 2022 to trade as PG Forsta. Its HX Platform spans survey data collection (Decipher / Forsta Surveys), panel and sample management, qualitative research, text and social analytics, and dashboard visualization for customer, employee and brand experience programs. Forsta publishes eight OpenAPI documents covering 345 operations at docs.developer.focusvision.com: the Decipher REST API for survey automation and data extraction, the Panel Management Integration, Community, webhook and vendor-callback contracts, and the Sample Marketplace partner contract that sample providers must implement to be listed.

Forsta publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Decipher REST API, Panel Management APIs, and Sample Marketplace Partner APIs. Tagged areas include Customer Insights, Feedback, Market Research, Surveys, and Customer Experience.

The Forsta catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Forsta’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, support, engineering blog, changelog, authentication, CLI, and 29 more developer resources.

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53.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 38/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-15 · rubric v0.22.0

AccessEnterprise

8 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Customer Insights Feedback Market Research Surveys Customer Experience Employee Experience Panel Management Data Collection Analytics Voice of the Customer

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scored 2026-09-15 · rubric v0.22.0

Composite quality — 53.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 13.7 / 23

Developer Ergonomics 7.6 / 18

Access Clarity 7.8 / 18

Operational Transparency 7.1 / 12

Contract Governance 2.0 / 11

Discoverability 7.3 / 9

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 3.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 38/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 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 4 / 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

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APIs 3

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

Forsta Decipher REST API

The Decipher REST API (Forsta Surveys) automates a private or shared Decipher instance: create and launch surveys, read datamaps, extract and edit response data, run crosstabs a...

Forsta Panel Management APIs

Panel Management exposes four published contracts: an Integration API (53 operations) for sessions, panelists, notes, projects and delivery statistics; a Community API (45 opera...

Forsta Sample Marketplace Partner APIs

The contract a sample provider must implement to be listed in the Forsta Sample Marketplace - estimates, projects and samples over OAuth 2.0 client credentials or HTTP Basic - t...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Forsta MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Forsta Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Forsta Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

Forsta Finops

FINOPS

Event Specifications 1

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

Forsta Panel Management Webhooks

ASYNCAPI

Security Posture 3

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

Forsta Authentication

apiKey/http/oauth2 · 7 schemes

SECURITY

Forsta Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Forsta Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Forsta Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Agentic Access 1

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

Forsta Agentic Access

345 operations · 214 acting · 6 human-in-the-loop

345 operations · 214 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

MCPServer

AgenticAccess

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Conformance

Webhooks

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Authentication

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

StatusPage

Deprecation

ChangeLog

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: forsta
name: Forsta
description: 'Forsta is the customer experience and market research technology company formed from the 2021 merger of Confirmit,
  FocusVision and Dapresy, and acquired by Press Ganey in 2022 to trade as PG Forsta. Its HX Platform spans survey data collection
  (Decipher / Forsta Surveys), panel and sample management, qualitative research, text and social analytics, and dashboard
  visualization for customer, employee and brand experience programs. Forsta publishes eight OpenAPI documents covering 345
  operations at docs.developer.focusvision.com: the Decipher REST API for survey automation and data extraction, the Panel
  Management Integration, Community, webhook and vendor-callback contracts, and the Sample Marketplace partner contract that
  sample providers must implement to be listed.'
type: Index
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Commercial SaaS, per-tenant callable host
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-10'
  method: derived
  note: Every published contract is callable over HTTPS, but the Decipher and Panel Management specs template the host as
    a {server} variable the customer substitutes with their own instance domain - there is no single shared public API host.
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: sales-assisted
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise, contact sales
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-09-10'
  method: searched
  note: Corrected 2026-09-10. The previous value (freemium) was derived from a 2026-05-04 bulk-sweep plans scaffold that invented
    a Free tier. Forsta publishes no pricing page - /pricing, /plans and /get-started all 404 and the site's own llms.txt
    names no pricing page; the only commercial entry point is a 'Speak with an expert' form. See plans/forsta-plans-pricing.yml.
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/forsta.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2025-02-12'
modified: '2026-09-10'
position: Producing
tags:
- Customer Insights
- Feedback
- Market Research
- Surveys
- Customer Experience
- Employee Experience
- Panel Management
- Data Collection
- Analytics
- Voice of the Customer
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/forsta/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis:
- aid: forsta:forsta
  name: Forsta Decipher REST API
  description: 'The Decipher REST API (Forsta Surveys) automates a private or shared Decipher instance: create and launch
    surveys, read datamaps, extract and edit response data, run crosstabs and dashboards, manage campaigns, panels, translations,
    quotas, archives, users and API keys. 226 operations over 174 resource paths, authenticated with an x-apikey header.'
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/forsta.png
  humanURL: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/decipher/api
  baseURL: https://{server}/api/v1
  tags:
  - Surveys
  - Market Research
  - Data Collection
  - Customer Insights
  - Feedback
  - Analytics
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/decipher/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/decipher/api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-decipher-rest-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-decipher-rest-api-overlay.yaml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/forsta-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/forsta-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/forsta-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/forsta-data-model.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/forsta-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/forsta-sandbox.yml
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/forsta-cli.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/forsta-mcp.yml
- aid: forsta:panel-management
  name: Forsta Panel Management APIs
  description: 'Panel Management exposes four published contracts: an Integration API (53 operations) for sessions, panelists,
    notes, projects and delivery statistics; a Community API (45 operations); a webhook payload contract for panelist, survey-activity
    and survey-invitation events signed with ECDSA in an X-KP-Webhook-Signature header; and a vendor-callback contract an
    incentives partner implements for authentication, user lookup, points redemption and refunds.'
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/forsta.png
  humanURL: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/panelmanagement/integration/api
  baseURL: https://{server}
  tags:
  - Panel Management
  - Surveys
  - Market Research
  - Webhook
  - Data Collection
  tags_raw:
  - Panel Management
  - Surveys
  - Market Research
  - Webhooks
  - Data Collection
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/panelmanagement/integration/api
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/panelmanagement/integration/api
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-panel-management-integration-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-panel-management-community-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-panel-management-webhooks-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-panel-management-vendor-callback-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-panel-management-integration-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-panel-management-community-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-panel-management-webhooks-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-panel-management-vendor-callback-overlay.yaml
  - type: Webhooks
    url: asyncapi/forsta-panel-management-webhooks.yml
- aid: forsta:sample-marketplace
  name: Forsta Sample Marketplace Partner APIs
  description: The contract a sample provider must implement to be listed in the Forsta Sample Marketplace - estimates, projects
    and samples over OAuth 2.0 client credentials or HTTP Basic - together with the Partner Setup API Forsta itself hosts
    for managing vendor configuration, and a published qualification list enumerating the qualifications available per locale.
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/forsta.png
  humanURL: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/smp/contract
  baseURL: https://us-west-2-eks.aws.focusvision.com/smp-partner-service
  tags:
  - Market Research
  - Panel Management
  - Sample
  - Surveys
  - Marketplace
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/smp/contract
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/smp/contract
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-sample-marketplace-partner-contract-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-sample-marketplace-partner-setup-openapi.yml
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/forsta-sample-marketplace-qualification-list-openapi.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-sample-marketplace-partner-contract-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-sample-marketplace-partner-setup-overlay.yaml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/forsta-sample-marketplace-qualification-list-overlay.yaml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/forsta-scopes.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.forsta.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.developer.focusvision.com/docs/decipher/api
- type: Support
  url: https://help.forsta.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.forsta.com/resources/blog/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ForstaGlobal
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/forstainfo
- type: Login
  url: https://www.forsta.com/login/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://legal.forsta.com/legal/tos/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://legal.forsta.com/legal/privacy-notice/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.forsta.com/legal-privacy/pg-forsta-technical-and-organizational-measures/
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.hxplatform.com/
- type: Deprecation
  url: lifecycle/forsta-lifecycle.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/forsta-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/forsta-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/forsta-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/forsta-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/forsta-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/forsta-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/forsta-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/forsta-conformance.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/forsta-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/forsta-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/forsta-cli.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/forsta-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/forsta-panel-management-webhooks.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/forsta-mcp.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/forsta-agentic-access.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/forsta-llms.txt
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/forsta-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/forsta-plans-pricing.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/forsta-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/forsta-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://www.pressganey.com/responsible-disclosure-policy/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-10'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 47
  pass: local-v3

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