Seyond

Seyond (formerly Innovusion) is a Sunnyvale, California LiDAR maker with R&D and business operations in Germany and China. It designs and mass-produces image-grade LiDAR sensors — Falcon K, Robin W, Robin E1X and Hummingbird D1 — plus perception software and SIMPL, the Seyond ITS Management Platform used by cities, DOTs and tolling agencies for intersection and highway traffic detection. Its public developer surface is not a web API: it is a first-party C/C++ client SDK (inno-lidar-sdk) and a ROS/ROS2 driver published on GitHub that speak a proprietary TCP/UDP command-and-pointcloud protocol directly to the sensor. No OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC or SOAP contract is published; api.seyond.com is live but answers 404 on every discovery path. The corporate site does serve a live, OAuth-gated MCP server.

Seyond is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, LiDAR, Sensors, Autonomous Driving, and Intelligent Transportation.

Seyond’s developer surface includes documentation, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, CLI, changelog, authentication, and 27 more developer resources.

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30.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 26/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 83/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API 1 MCP Servers

Company LiDAR Sensors Autonomous Driving Intelligent Transportation Robotics Perception Smart Cities Automotive Hardware

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-13 · rubric v0.28.0

Composite quality — 30.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 9.3 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 2.1 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 4.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 26/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author Ask about this →
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented) Ask about this →
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0 Ask about this →
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link Ask about this →
Typed Event Surface +6 pts — AsyncAPI document, OR webhooks/callbacks objects in the as-published OpenAPI, OR common[].type includes Webhooks Ask about this →

6 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

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Access Clarity scores 31.9 — up to +13.6 composite points Ask about this →
Operational Transparency scores 19.0 — up to +10.5 composite points Ask about this →

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Autonomous Vehicles (self-driving testing, deployment, robotaxi service)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 3

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Seyond MCP Server

A live, OAuth-gated Model Context Protocol endpoint served from Seyond's own corporate host at https://seyond.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server. It is provided by the WordPress M...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Seyond MCP Server

Remote MCP server at seyond.com requiring OAuth.

MCP SERVER

Seyond API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Seyond Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Seyond Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

Seyond

9 quoted statements, read from Seyond's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

Seyond

16 quoted statements, read from Seyond's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

Seyond

4 quoted statements, read from Seyond's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

Seyond

3 quoted statements, read from Seyond's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

Seyond

1 quoted statement, read from Seyond's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Security Posture 2

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

Seyond Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Seyond Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Seyond Scopes

1 scope

1 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

OpenSource

Downloads

Products

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

aid: innovusion
name: Seyond
description: 'Seyond (formerly Innovusion) is a Sunnyvale, California LiDAR maker with R&D and business operations in Germany
  and China. It designs and mass-produces image-grade LiDAR sensors — Falcon K, Robin W, Robin E1X and Hummingbird D1 — plus
  perception software and SIMPL, the Seyond ITS Management Platform used by cities, DOTs and tolling agencies for intersection
  and highway traffic detection. Its public developer surface is not a web API: it is a first-party C/C++ client SDK (inno-lidar-sdk)
  and a ROS/ROS2 driver published on GitHub that speak a proprietary TCP/UDP command-and-pointcloud protocol directly to the
  sensor. No OpenAPI, GraphQL, gRPC or SOAP contract is published; api.seyond.com is live but answers 404 on every discovery
  path. The corporate site does serve a live, OAuth-gated MCP server.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/innovusion/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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  gated: none
  gated_source:
  - onboarding
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  probe_state: covered
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-13'
  method: derived
image: https://seyond.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/cropped-seyond_favicon-192x192.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-08-23'
tags:
- Company
- LiDAR
- Sensors
- Autonomous Driving
- Intelligent Transportation
- Robotics
- Perception
- Smart Cities
- Automotive
- Hardware
apis:
- name: Seyond MCP Server
  description: A live, OAuth-gated Model Context Protocol endpoint served from Seyond's own corporate host at https://seyond.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server.
    It is provided by the WordPress MCP adapter running on seyond.com and exposes site/content abilities rather than LiDAR
    or SIMPL functionality. Discovery metadata is anonymous (RFC 8414 authorization-server metadata and RFC 9728 protected-resource
    metadata both return 200); tools/list and initialize both return HTTP 401 mcp_unauthorized, so the tool set and its input
    schemas require an authenticated introspection we did not perform.
  humanURL: https://seyond.com/
  baseURL: https://seyond.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - MCP
  - Agents
  - OAuth
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/innovusion-mcp.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/innovusion-scopes.yml
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: mcp-plugin
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://seyond.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://github.com/Seyond-Inc/inno-lidar-sdk/blob/main/docs/HOW_TO_USE_CLIENT_SDK.md
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://github.com/Seyond-Inc/inno-lidar-sdk#quick-start
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Seyond-Inc
- type: Support
  url: https://seyond.com/contact/
- type: Blog
  url: https://seyond.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://seyond.com/feed/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://seyond.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://seyond.com/privacy-policy/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/Seyond-Inc
- type: OpenSource
  url: https://seyond.com/open-source-software/
- type: Downloads
  url: https://seyond.com/downloads/
- type: Products
  url: https://seyond.com/products/
- type: Packages
  url: packages/innovusion-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/innovusion-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/innovusion-cli.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/innovusion-changelog.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/innovusion-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/innovusion-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/innovusion-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/innovusion-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/innovusion-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/innovusion-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/innovusion-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/innovusion-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/innovusion-domain-security.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/innovusion-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/innovusion-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/innovusion-llms.txt
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/innovusion-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/innovusion-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/innovusion-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/innovusion-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/innovusion-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-23'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  reason: no-machine-readable-spec
  detail: 'Seyond publishes no web API contract of any kind — its developer surface is a C/C++ client SDK that speaks a proprietary
    TCP/UDP protocol directly to the sensor — but the pass completed and found real first-party artifacts: an actively released
    SDK and ROS driver on github.com/Seyond-Inc, and a live OAuth-gated MCP endpoint with RFC 8414 and RFC 9728 discovery
    documents on seyond.com.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://api.seyond.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.seyond.com/health
    status: 200
  - url: https://seyond.com/.well-known/oauth-protected-resource
    status: 200
  - url: https://seyond.com/wp-json/mcp/mcp-oauth-server
    status: 401
  - url: https://github.com/Seyond-Inc/inno-lidar-sdk
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-23'

Seyond API — frequently asked questions

Does Seyond have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Seyond, including Seyond MCP Server.

How do I authenticate with the Seyond API?

Seyond documents its authentication (3 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Seyond Authentication.

Does Seyond have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Seyond: Remote MCP server at seyond.com requiring OAuth.

Is the Seyond API ready for AI agents?

Seyond has a Kin Score of 30.8 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 26.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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