# LaborUp

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/laborup/  
**Website:** https://www.laborup.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

LaborUp is an AI-powered recruiting platform for American manufacturing, connecting skilled industrial workers — machinists, CNC programmers, welders, and maintenance technicians — with manufacturing employers. The platform combines voice-first AI screening, skills verification, and constraint-aware matching with dedicated recruiter support, and claims 5-10x faster hiring, more than 50% lower cost than traditional staffing agencies, 3x better post-hire retention, and a proprietary network of 25,000+ vetted workers. Founded by Simba Jonga, LaborUp raised $7.74M ($1.935M pre-seed plus a $5.8M seed announced in August 2025) led by NVP with Torch Capital, Threshold, Heartland VC, Daybreak, Westbound, Marketplace Capital, and Market Square Ventures. Early traction is concentrated in the Knoxville, Tennessee manufacturing corridor and in aerospace, shipbuilding, and critical infrastructure. As of July 2026 LaborUp publishes no public API, developer portal, or specification; the product is delivered as a hosted web and mobile application.

## Kin Score — 11.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Laborup Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Software-as-a-Service, Recruiting, Staffing, Manufacturing, Human Resources, Workforce, Hiring, Artificial Intelligence, Marketplace, Skilled Trades

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