LE TOTE

Le Tote was an online women's clothing rental and subscription-box business founded in San Francisco in 2012 by Brett Northart and Rakesh Tondon, and a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2013 batch. Unlike Rent the Runway, which concentrated on high-end event wear, Le Tote rented everyday apparel and accessories through a rotating personalized "tote" driven by its own sizing and recommendation data. In August 2019 it agreed to acquire the Lord & Taylor department-store chain from Hudson's Bay Company; both businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 2 August 2020, and Saadia Group bought the assets that October. Saadia Group was reported effectively shut down in March 2024 and the letote.com site went offline that spring. Le Tote is defunct: the domain no longer resolves, and the company never published a public API or developer portal. This profile is retained as a historical record of its open-source engineering output.

LE TOTE is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Defunct, Retail, Fashion, and E-Commerce.

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6.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
0 APIs
CompanyDefunctRetailFashionE-CommerceClothing RentalSubscription CommerceOpen-SourceY Combinator

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0
Composite quality — 6.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
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
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Security Posture 1

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

Le Tote Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle
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Build 2

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GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization
 Packages
Packages

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: le-tote
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/le-tote.png
name: LE TOTE
description: 'Le Tote was an online women''s clothing rental and subscription-box business founded in San Francisco in 2012
  by Brett Northart and Rakesh Tondon, and a member of the Y Combinator Summer 2013 batch. Unlike Rent the Runway, which concentrated
  on high-end event wear, Le Tote rented everyday apparel and accessories through a rotating personalized "tote" driven by
  its own sizing and recommendation data. In August 2019 it agreed to acquire the Lord & Taylor department-store chain from
  Hudson''s Bay Company; both businesses filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy on 2 August 2020, and Saadia Group bought the assets
  that October. Saadia Group was reported effectively shut down in March 2024 and the letote.com site went offline that spring.
  Le Tote is defunct: the domain no longer resolves, and the company never published a public API or developer portal. This
  profile is retained as a historical record of its open-source engineering output.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/le-tote/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
- a16z
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: Enriched 2026-07-19. Company is defunct and publishes no API; the profile captures the verified open-source
  and lifecycle record instead.
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Retail
- Fashion
- E-Commerce
- Clothing Rental
- Subscription Commerce
- Open-Source
- Y Combinator
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Retail
- Fashion
- E-Commerce
- Clothing Rental
- Subscription Commerce
- Open Source
- Y Combinator
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://letote.com
  x-status: defunct
  x-note: Historical canonical domain. Registered but unresolvable as of 2026-07-19 — see security/le-tote-domain-security.yml.
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: Le Tote on GitHub
  url: https://github.com/LeToteTeam
- type: Packages
  name: First-party open-source packages
  url: packages/le-tote-packages.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Company and API lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/le-tote-lifecycle.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  name: Probed domain security posture
  url: security/le-tote-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: llms.txt
  url: llms/le-tote-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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