HNC

HNC Software Inc. was a San Diego-based predictive-software company founded in 1986 that built neural-network and decision-management systems for credit-card and workers-compensation fraud detection, customer analytics, and profitability management across financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and retail. Its flagship Falcon product screened a large share of the world's payment-card transactions for fraud. HNC was an early Battery Ventures investment, went public in 1995, and was acquired by Fair Isaac (FICO) in May 2002; it no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes no current developer or API surface.

HNC is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Fraud Detection, Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning, and Decision Management.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyFraud DetectionPredictive AnalyticsMachine LearningDecision ManagementFinancial ServicesInsurance

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Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · 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 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Source (apis.yml)

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name: HNC
description: HNC Software Inc. was a San Diego-based predictive-software company founded in 1986 that built neural-network
  and decision-management systems for credit-card and workers-compensation fraud detection, customer analytics, and profitability
  management across financial services, insurance, telecommunications, and retail. Its flagship Falcon product screened a
  large share of the world's payment-card transactions for fraud. HNC was an early Battery Ventures investment, went public
  in 1995, and was acquired by Fair Isaac (FICO) in May 2002; it no longer operates as an independent entity and publishes
  no current developer or API surface.
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- Company
- Fraud Detection
- Predictive Analytics
- Machine Learning
- Decision Management
- Financial Services
- Insurance
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