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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25.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-19 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

3 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyCorporate GiftingSwag ManagementBranded MerchandiseFulfillmentE-commerceShippingY Combinator

Kin Score

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scored 2026-08-19 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 25.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.7 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 7.0 / 20

Access Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 2.0 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 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

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APIs 3

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

MCP Servers 1

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

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

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

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)

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.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  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
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: MCPServer
  url: mcp/gemnote-mcp.yml
- 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

Gemnote

Kin Score

APIs 3

Gemnote Gifts API

Gemnote Greeting Cards API

Gemnote Shipments API

Open Collections 4

API Collection

Gemnote Gifts API

Gemnote Gifts Greeting Cards API

Gemnote Gifts Shipments API

MCP Servers 1

gemnote-mcp.yml

Security Posture 2

Gemnote Authentication

Gemnote Domain Security

Agentic Access 1

Gemnote Agentic Access

Resources