# HERP

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/herp/  
**Website:** https://herp.co.jp/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

HERP Inc. (株式会社HERP) is a Japanese HR Tech company whose mission is "採用を変え、日本を強く。" (change recruiting, strengthen Japan). It builds HERP Hire, an AI-era applicant tracking and recruitment management system (ATS) known for "scrum recruiting", alongside ジョブミル (Jobmill) for recruiting agents and HERP Career, a startup-focused job-change service. HERP Hire integrates with job boards and tools such as Zoom, Google Calendar and Slack, and exposes the "HERP Hire API" (generally available from 2026-02-03 to paying customers) for member assignment and application management. HERP was surfaced as a portfolio company of dcm-ventures and added to the API Evangelist network.

## Kin Score — 10.8 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.8).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (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 | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Herp Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Enterprise, HR Tech, Recruiting, Applicant Tracking, ATS, Human Resources, Software-as-a-Service, Japan

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