# Iron Ox

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/iron-ox/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Iron Ox (legally Inevitable Tech, Inc.) was a San Carlos, California robotics company that built autonomous indoor farms — hydroponic greenhouses worked by mobile transport robots and a robotic arm that seeded, moved, imaged and harvested leafy greens and herbs, with machine learning used to spot pests and disease plant by plant. Founded in 2015 by Brandon Alexander and Jon Binney, it went through Y Combinator (W16), raised roughly $98 million in total including a $53 million Series C led by Breakthrough Energy Ventures in September 2021, and ran greenhouses in Gilroy, California and Lockhart, Texas. It cut about half its staff — roughly 50 people — in November 2022 and ceased operations in mid-2023. Iron Ox never ran a developer program: it sold produce, not software, and the only public code it ever shipped was internal ROS robotics tooling on GitHub. Its site, ironox.com, is now a GoDaddy parking lander and every developer subdomain has been removed from DNS, so there is no API, specification, SDK or documentation surface left to profile.

## Kin Score — 5.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Tags

Company, Agriculture, AgTech, Robotics, Automation, Indoor Farming, Controlled Environment Agriculture, Machine Learning, Climate Tech, Defunct

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