# Intrinsic

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/intrinsic/  
**Website:** https://withintrinsic.com  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 9.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+1.1 from 8.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 79.6 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 2.6 (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 | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## APIs (1)

- **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 (2)

- **Intrinsic Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Intrinsic Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, Trust and Safety, Content Moderation, Anti-Abuse, Fraud Detection, Machine-Learning, Risk Intelligence

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