Gousto website screenshot

Gousto

Gousto is a British meal-kit retailer founded in 2012 by Timo Boldt and James Carter and headquartered in Shepherd's Bush, London. It delivers recipe boxes with pre-portioned fresh ingredients and step-by-step recipes to homes across the UK, using proprietary data science, ERP, courier-integration and warehouse-automation systems to run its subscription operation. A SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio company, Gousto does not publish a public developer API; this profile captures its public digital surface (website, engineering blog, GitHub organization, and coordinated vulnerability-disclosure program) for the API Evangelist network.

Gousto is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Meal Kit, Food Delivery, and E-Commerce.

Gousto’s developer surface includes signup flow, engineering blog, and 9 more developer resources.

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16.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 7/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyConsumerMeal KitFood DeliveryE-CommerceSubscriptionUnited Kingdom

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 16.1/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 2.1 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 7/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 3 / 3
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Security Posture 2

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

Gousto Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Gousto Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown
WellKnown

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt
SecurityTxt
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: gousto
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/gousto.png
name: Gousto
description: Gousto is a British meal-kit retailer founded in 2012 by Timo Boldt and James Carter and headquartered in Shepherd's
  Bush, London. It delivers recipe boxes with pre-portioned fresh ingredients and step-by-step recipes to homes across the
  UK, using proprietary data science, ERP, courier-integration and warehouse-automation systems to run its subscription operation.
  A SoftBank Vision Fund portfolio company, Gousto does not publish a public developer API; this profile captures its public
  digital surface (website, engineering blog, GitHub organization, and coordinated vulnerability-disclosure program) for the
  API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gousto/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- softbank-vision-fund
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Meal Kit
- Food Delivery
- E-Commerce
- Subscription
- United Kingdom
apis: []
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.gousto.co.uk
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.gousto.co.uk/signup
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.gousto.co.uk/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.gousto.co.uk/privacy-and-cookies-policies
- type: Blog
  url: https://medium.com/gousto-engineering-techbrunch
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Gousto
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/gousto-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/gousto-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/gousto-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vTxhKb1GafHumjGIgtpx0ZbWyqmBsDUNC_xXaVrg0Mc8n6dGlDSN9l8PjjFeuwur2peLYoR5mDDUuvr/pub
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/gousto-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