# Fundamental Research Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/fundamental-research-labs/  
**Website:** https://fundamentalresearchlabs.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Fundamental Research Labs (formerly Altera) is an applied AI research company building autonomous, collaborative AI agents, founded by researchers from MIT EECS, the Stanford NLP Group, Google X, and Citadel and backed by Andreessen Horowitz and Prosus. Its flagship product, Shortcut, is an AI analyst for Excel that turns natural-language prompts into full spreadsheet models — LBOs, DCFs, three-statement models, waterfalls — and ships a web app, desktop app, Excel and Google Sheets plugins, a ShortcutXL terminal agent (CLI), and a Platform API. The Shortcut Platform API lets teams submit spreadsheet-automation jobs, poll status, download generated workbooks, upload context files, list agent skills, and export organization usage data programmatically using API-key bearer authentication.

## Kin Score — 62.7 / 100 (strong)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 62.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 56.0 |
| Governance | 20.8 |
| Operational Transparency | 60.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 84.2 |

## Agent readiness — 43.5 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (3)

- **Fundamental Research Labs Authentication API** — API key authentication and verification
- **Fundamental Research Labs Spreadsheets API** — Spreadsheet processing and automation endpoints
- **Fundamental Research Labs Usage API** — Export team usage metrics for reporting, finance, and internal analytics. Usage Metrics in Shortcut provides a prefilled request with your team_id; use this reference to customi...

## MCP servers (1)

- **fundamental-research-labs-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Fundamental Research Labs Agentic Access** — 10 operations · 3 acting

## Security (2)

- **Fundamental Research Labs Authentication** — apiKey/http · 2 schemes
- **Fundamental Research Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Fundamental Research Labs Plans**

## Tags

Company, Ai, Artificial Intelligence, Spreadsheets, Excel, Financial Modeling, Agents, Automation, Productivity, Data Analysis

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