Gro Intelligence was a New York- and Nairobi-based agricultural and climate data company, founded in 2014 by Sara Menker, that built a global food-and-climate intelligence platform on top of satellite imagery, weather models, government statistics and trade data. Its product was a normalized ontology — metrics, items, regions, frequencies, sources and units — over hundreds of trillions of data points, exposed through a read-only REST API and an official Python client used by traders, insurers, lenders and CPG procurement teams to forecast yield, price and climate risk. The company raised an $85M Series B in 2021 and was named to TIME's 100 most influential companies, then ran out of money, laid off 60% of staff in March 2024 and ceased operations that spring; Almanac (formerly Semios) acquired its IP and AI models out of liquidation in November 2024. This profile is a historical record: the API host, developer portal and web application no longer resolve, and the primary domain is a parked registrar lander.
Gro Intelligence publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Agriculture, Climate, Data, and Analytics.
Gro Intelligence’s developer surface includes documentation, CLI, authentication, changelog, and 13 more developer resources.
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never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and
several others — scorable at all.
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Read-only REST API over the Gro ontology and its agricultural, climate and trade time series. Every operation was an HTTP GET under /v2/, authenticated with a bearer token issue...
aid: gro-intelligence
name: Gro Intelligence
description: 'Gro Intelligence was a New York- and Nairobi-based agricultural and climate data company, founded in 2014 by
Sara Menker, that built a global food-and-climate intelligence platform on top of satellite imagery, weather models, government
statistics and trade data. Its product was a normalized ontology — metrics, items, regions, frequencies, sources and units
— over hundreds of trillions of data points, exposed through a read-only REST API and an official Python client used by
traders, insurers, lenders and CPG procurement teams to forecast yield, price and climate risk. The company raised an $85M
Series B in 2021 and was named to TIME''s 100 most influential companies, then ran out of money, laid off 60% of staff in
March 2024 and ceased operations that spring; Almanac (formerly Semios) acquired its IP and AI models out of liquidation
in November 2024. This profile is a historical record: the API host, developer portal and web application no longer resolve,
and the primary domain is a parked registrar lander.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/gro-intelligence/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
model: saas
open_source: false
commercial: true
callable_host: false
label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
confidence: medium
source:
- pricing
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: unknown
trial: false
try_now: false
public: false
label: Unknown
confidence: low
probe_state: none
source:
- authentication
- rate-limits
- security
generated: '2026-09-03'
method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15130228?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enrichment-pass-completed
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-09-16'
x-docs-platform: sphinx
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-03
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Climate
- Data
- Analytics
- Satellite Imagery
- Commodities
- Weather
- Food Security
- Time Series
- Defunct
apis:
- name: Gro Intelligence API (retired)
description: 'Read-only REST API over the Gro ontology and its agricultural, climate and trade time series. Every operation
was an HTTP GET under /v2/, authenticated with a bearer token issued from the Gro web application: ontology lookup and
search (/v2/metrics, /v2/items, /v2/regions, /v2/frequencies, /v2/sources, /v2/units, /v2/entities/list, /v2/search),
series discovery (/v2/data_series/list, /v2/stream/data_series/list, /v2/available/sources, /v2/available/time-frequencies,
/v2/top/{entity_type}), unit handling (/v2/units/allowed), geography (/v2/geocentres) and the data plane (/v2/data, /v2prime/data).
The service is RETIRED — api.gro-intelligence.com no longer resolves and no credential can be obtained. Recorded here
from the company''s own published client library, not from a live probe.'
humanURL: https://github.com/gro-intelligence/api-client
baseURL: https://api.gro-intelligence.com/v2
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15130228?v=4
tags:
- Agriculture
- Climate
- Time Series
- Data
x-status: retired
x-retired-note: baseURL is recorded as the company published it in groclient/cfg.py (API_HOST = "api.gro-intelligence.com").
The host returns NXDOMAIN as of 2026-08-22. It is kept for the historical record and is explicitly not a claim that the
endpoint is callable.
properties:
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/gro-intelligence-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/gro-intelligence-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/gro-intelligence-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/gro-intelligence-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/gro-intelligence-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/gro-intelligence-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
url: https://gro-intelligence.com
- type: Documentation
url: https://gro.readthedocs.io/
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/gro-intelligence
- type: Packages
url: packages/gro-intelligence-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
url: packages/gro-intelligence-packages.yml
- type: CLI
url: cli/gro-intelligence-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
url: authentication/gro-intelligence-authentication.yml
- type: RateLimits
url: rate-limits/gro-intelligence-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
url: plans/gro-intelligence-plans-pricing.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
url: errors/gro-intelligence-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
url: lifecycle/gro-intelligence-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conventions
url: conventions/gro-intelligence-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
url: conformance/gro-intelligence-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
url: data-model/gro-intelligence-data-model.yml
- type: ChangeLog
url: changelog/gro-intelligence-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/gro-intelligence-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/gro-intelligence-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-22'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 14
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Gro Intelligence ceased operations in spring 2024 and was liquidated (IP acquired by Almanac, November 2024); its
API host api.gro-intelligence.com, developer portal developers.gro-intelligence.com and app host app.gro-intelligence.com
all return NXDOMAIN, and gro-intelligence.com is now a parked GoDaddy lander that answers HTTP 200 with the same 114-byte
redirect body for every path including /openapi.json and /.well-known/agent-card.json. STEP 0b contract discovery was
still run in full; the profile is built from the surfaces that survive — the company's public GitHub organization, the
first-party MIT-licensed groclient library, its dated GitHub releases, and the PyPI/conda-forge listings. No OpenAPI,
GraphQL SDL, MCP server or A2A agent card was ever published by this company.
evidence:
- url: https://api.gro-intelligence.com/openapi.json
status: 0
- url: https://developers.gro-intelligence.com/
status: 0
- url: https://gro-intelligence.com/openapi.json
status: 200
- url: https://gro-intelligence.com/zzz-soft404-control
status: 200
- url: https://gro-intelligence.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 200
- url: https://github.com/gro-intelligence/api-client
status: 200
- url: https://pypi.org/project/groclient/
status: 200
checked: '2026-08-22'
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