# Gousto

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gousto/  
**Website:** https://www.gousto.co.uk  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 9.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: falling (-5.0 from 14.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 2.6 (human-only)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (2)

- **Gousto Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Gousto Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Meal Kit, Food Delivery, E-Commerce, Subscription, United Kingdom

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