Keel

Keel is code-first operations software for growing companies — a modern alternative to legacy ERP and no-code tools. Teams model their data and business logic in a declarative schema plus TypeScript functions, and Keel generates production-grade JSON and GraphQL APIs, a type-safe generated client, authentication (bearer JWT with OIDC/SSO), role-based permissions, background jobs, events, multi-step flows, and an admin console with internal tools. Built by Planko Ltd (London) and founded in 2022 by operators who scaled the Echo pharmacy to 50,000 prescriptions a day and £100M revenue, Keel is backed by Earlybird and LocalGlobe and is distributed as an AGPL-3.0 open-source framework plus a hosted platform.

Keel is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Operations, ERP, Backend, and GraphQL.

Keel’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, CLI, and 18 more developer resources.

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31.0/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 10/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

0 APIs

CompanyOperationsERPBackendGraphQLAPILow-CodeDeveloper ToolsWorkflowAuthenticationTypeScript

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 31.0/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 10/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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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Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

GraphQL

GraphQL

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

aid: keel
name: Keel
description: Keel is code-first operations software for growing companies — a modern alternative to legacy ERP and no-code
  tools. Teams model their data and business logic in a declarative schema plus TypeScript functions, and Keel generates production-grade
  JSON and GraphQL APIs, a type-safe generated client, authentication (bearer JWT with OIDC/SSO), role-based permissions,
  background jobs, events, multi-step flows, and an admin console with internal tools. Built by Planko Ltd (London) and founded
  in 2022 by operators who scaled the Echo pharmacy to 50,000 prescriptions a day and £100M revenue, Keel is backed by Earlybird
  and LocalGlobe and is distributed as an AGPL-3.0 open-source framework plus a hosted platform.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/keel/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://keel.so/icon.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-legal-entity: Planko Ltd
x-founded: '2022'
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tags:
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- ERP
- Backend
- GraphQL
- API
- Low-Code
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- Authentication
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apis: []
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- type: Website
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- type: Support
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- type: Blog
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- type: TrustCenter
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- type: X
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- type: Packages
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- type: SDKs
  url: packages/keel-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/keel-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/keel-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/keel-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/keel-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/keel-lifecycle.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
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