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Gemnote

Gemnote is a corporate gifting and swag management platform that helps businesses design, produce, warehouse, and ship custom branded merchandise and gifts worldwide. Founded in 2014 and based in Union City, California, and backed by Y Combinator, Gemnote pairs a swag management app (inventory, order tracking, e-commerce swag stores, and Shopify integration) with human design and fulfillment expertise, and is used by companies such as Reddit, Google, Airbnb, and Sephora for employee swag, new-hire kits, PR and influencer kits, event giveaways, and packaging. Gemnote also publishes a JSON:API-style REST API that lets partners list gifts and greeting cards, create shipments to recipients, and track fulfillment programmatically, with a sandbox environment for testing.

Gemnote publishes 3 APIs on the APIs.io network: Gifts API, Greeting Cards API, and Shipments API. Tagged areas include Company, Corporate Gifting, Swag Management, Branded Merchandise, and Fulfillment.

Gemnote’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, pricing, support, and 10 more developer resources.

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26.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
1 APIs
CompanyCorporate GiftingSwag ManagementBranded MerchandiseFulfillmentE-CommerceShippingY Combinator

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 26.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 3.3 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 9.8 / 18
Access Clarity 3.8 / 18
Operational Transparency 0.3 / 12
Contract Governance 0.5 / 11
Discoverability 6.8 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware
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 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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
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.
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APIs 3

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

Gemnote Gifts API

The catalog of gifts available to send.

Gemnote Greeting Cards API

The catalog of greeting cards / postcards available to include.

Gemnote Shipments API

Orders that send a gift and optional greeting card to a recipient.

Open Collections 4

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Gemnote Gifts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gemnote Gifts Greeting Cards API

OPEN COLLECTION

Gemnote Gifts Shipments API

OPEN COLLECTION

Security Posture 2

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

Gemnote Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Gemnote Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

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

Gemnote Agentic Access

7 operations · 1 acting

7 operations · 1 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal

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
AgentSkill
 X-MCPServerCandidate
X-MCPServerCandidate
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay
Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: gemnote
name: Gemnote
description: Gemnote is a corporate gifting and swag management platform that helps businesses design, produce, warehouse,
  and ship custom branded merchandise and gifts worldwide. Founded in 2014 and based in Union City, California, and backed
  by Y Combinator, Gemnote pairs a swag management app (inventory, order tracking, e-commerce swag stores, and Shopify integration)
  with human design and fulfillment expertise, and is used by companies such as Reddit, Google, Airbnb, and Sephora for employee
  swag, new-hire kits, PR and influencer kits, event giveaways, and packaging. Gemnote also publishes a JSON:API-style REST
  API that lets partners list gifts and greeting cards, create shipments to recipients, and track fulfillment programmatically,
  with a sandbox environment for testing.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://www.gemnote.com/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gemnote/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Corporate Gifting
- Swag Management
- Branded Merchandise
- Fulfillment
- E-Commerce
- Shipping
- Y Combinator
tags_raw:
- Company
- Corporate Gifting
- Swag Management
- Branded Merchandise
- Fulfillment
- E-commerce
- Shipping
- Y Combinator
apis:
- aid: gemnote:gemnote-gifts-api
  name: Gemnote Gifts API
  description: The catalog of gifts available to send.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gemnote/api
  baseURL: https://api.gemnote.com
  tags:
  - Gifts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gemnote-gifts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/gemnote/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/gemnote-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/gemnote-sandbox.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/gemnote-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/gemnote-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/gemnote-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/gemnote-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/gemnote-conformance.yml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/gemnote-agentic-access.yml
- aid: gemnote:gemnote-greeting-cards-api
  name: Gemnote Greeting Cards API
  description: The catalog of greeting cards / postcards available to include.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gemnote/api
  baseURL: https://api.gemnote.com
  tags:
  - Greeting Cards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gemnote-greeting-cards-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/gemnote/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/gemnote-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/gemnote-sandbox.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/gemnote-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/gemnote-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/gemnote-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/gemnote-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/gemnote-conformance.yml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/gemnote-agentic-access.yml
- aid: gemnote:gemnote-shipments-api
  name: Gemnote Shipments API
  description: Orders that send a gift and optional greeting card to a recipient.
  humanURL: https://github.com/gemnote/api
  baseURL: https://api.gemnote.com
  tags:
  - Shipments
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/gemnote-shipments-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://github.com/gemnote/api
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/gemnote-authentication.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/gemnote-sandbox.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/gemnote-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/gemnote-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/gemnote-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/gemnote-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/gemnote-conformance.yml
  - type: AgenticAccess
    url: agentic-access/gemnote-agentic-access.yml
common:
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/gemnote-send-a-gift.md
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/gemnote-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: Overlay
  url: overlays/gemnote-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gemnote.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://github.com/gemnote/api
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/gemnote/api
- type: APIReference
  url: https://github.com/gemnote/api
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/gemnote
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.gemnote.com/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.gemnote.com/pricing
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.gemnote.com/terms
- type: Support
  url: https://support.gemnote.com/hc/en-us
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/gemnote-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gemnote-well-known.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gemnote-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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