Intrinsic

Intrinsic is a unified Trust & Safety platform that gives safety teams a single API and dashboard to detect, investigate, and enforce against abuse across user- and AI-generated content, fraud, and marketplace abuse. The platform surfaces machine-learning classifiers (for example text toxicity and IP trust scoring), account graph lineage for linkage analysis, geo enrichers, and global intelligence signals through a synchronous API, and lets teams author, version, deploy, and monitor real-time anti-abuse rules from a hosted dashboard. Founded in 2022 in San Francisco by Karine Mellata and Michael Lin (previously on Trust & Safety ML and data-engineering infrastructure at Apple and Discord), Intrinsic has since rebranded to Variance (variance.co); the Intrinsic-branded developer surfaces at docs.intrinsicapi.com and api.intrinsicapi.com remain in service.

Intrinsic publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, Anti-Abuse, and Fraud Prevention.

Intrinsic’s developer surface includes documentation and 7 more developer resources.

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7.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 5/6 prominent Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

1 APIs

Company Trust and Safety Content ModerationAnti-AbuseFraud Prevention Machine Learning Risk Intelligence

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-25 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 7.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.2 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 1

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

Intrinsic API

Unified Trust & Safety API exposing ML classifiers, enrichments, account graph lineage, and real-time rule evaluation for anti-abuse workflows. Access is gated behind an issued ...

Security Posture 2

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

Intrinsic Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Intrinsic Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Security

Security

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: intrinsic
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - url: https://withintrinsic.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.variance.com/ — a different registrable domain (withintrinsic.com -> variance.com),
      possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/intrinsic.png
name: Intrinsic
description: Intrinsic is a unified Trust & Safety platform that gives safety teams a single API and dashboard to detect,
  investigate, and enforce against abuse across user- and AI-generated content, fraud, and marketplace abuse. The platform
  surfaces machine-learning classifiers (for example text toxicity and IP trust scoring), account graph lineage for linkage
  analysis, geo enrichers, and global intelligence signals through a synchronous API, and lets teams author, version, deploy,
  and monitor real-time anti-abuse rules from a hosted dashboard. Founded in 2022 in San Francisco by Karine Mellata and Michael
  Lin (previously on Trust & Safety ML and data-engineering infrastructure at Apple and Discord), Intrinsic has since rebranded
  to Variance (variance.co); the Intrinsic-branded developer surfaces at docs.intrinsicapi.com and api.intrinsicapi.com remain
  in service.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/intrinsic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-rebranded-to: Variance
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Trust and Safety
- Content Moderation
- Anti-Abuse
- Fraud Prevention
- Machine Learning
- Risk Intelligence
tags_raw:
- Company
- Trust and Safety
- Content Moderation
- Anti-Abuse
- Fraud Detection
- Machine Learning
- Risk Intelligence
- API
- Machine-Learning
apis:
- name: Intrinsic API
  description: Unified Trust & Safety API exposing ML classifiers, enrichments, account graph lineage, and real-time rule
    evaluation for anti-abuse workflows. Access is gated behind an issued API key; developer documentation requires a request-access
    code.
  humanURL: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.intrinsicapi.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/getting-started/welcome
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://withintrinsic.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/intrinsic-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/intrinsic-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/intrinsic-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/intrinsic-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/intrinsic-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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