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Legal & General

Legal & General Group plc is a FTSE 100 United Kingdom life insurer, retirement and institutional asset manager headquartered in London and regulated by the FCA and PRA. Its lines of business are life and protection insurance (term life, critical illness, income protection), workplace and individual pensions, annuities and bulk-purchase annuity/pension risk transfer, equity release through Legal & General Home Finance, and asset management through Legal & General Investment Management. It is a life and health carrier rather than a general insurer, and it distributes almost entirely through regulated intermediaries — financial advisers, mortgage brokers and employee-benefit consultants — rather than direct-to-developer. Its API posture reflects that distribution model honestly: Legal & General publishes NO public, self-serve developer portal, no public API reference, and no downloadable OpenAPI or Swagger definition. No developer.legalandgeneral.com, developers, docs, or api subdomain resolves in DNS, and /developers, /api, /developer, /partners and /integrations all return HTTP 404 on the primary site. Every documented Legal & General API is a bilateral, partner-gated integration announced by the counterparty rather than published by Legal & General — real-time equity release quotation, KFI and application APIs wired into Iress "The Exchange", Air Sourcing and the Advise Wise platform, a Mortgage Club integration with Kensington Mortgages, and adviser-facing protection quote-and-apply through OLP Connect. Adviser identity and messaging run on the UK's Origo rails — Unipass digital certificates, Unipass Letter of Authority and Origo Track My Apps — which is the UK life and pensions analogue of ACORD; no ACORD, AL3, ACORD XML or NGDS reference appears anywhere in Legal & General's public surface. The only public Legal & General code is the Canopy design system on GitHub — an Apache-2.0 Angular component library shipped through GitHub Packages, with dated semver release notes, a published breaking-change policy, a repository security policy, and 84 installable agent skills (69 component best-practice skills and 15 per-major migration skills) that work with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code and Cursor. That makes Legal & General agent-native on the front end and completely closed on the API. This record exists to measure that split accurately: a large carrier whose integration surface is entirely intermediary-gated and invisible from outside a login wall.

Legal & General is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Insurance, United Kingdom, Life Insurance, Health Insurance, and Employee Benefits.

Legal & General’s developer surface includes changelog, engineering blog, support, and 24 more developer resources.

27.1/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only open core · Apache-2.0 Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
InsuranceUnited KingdomLife InsuranceHealth InsuranceEmployee BenefitsPensionsAnnuitiesAsset ManagementUnderwritingCarrierBrokersPartner GatedNo Public APIDesign SystemAgent SkillsOpen-Source

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Insurance regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 2

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

Legal And General Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Legal And General Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 6

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: legal-and-general
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/legal-and-general/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 'Its API posture reflects that distribution model honestly: Legal & General publishes NO public, self-serve
  developer portal, no public API reference, and no downloadable OpenAPI or Swagger definition.'
name: Legal & General
kind: company
description: 'Legal & General Group plc is a FTSE 100 United Kingdom life insurer, retirement and institutional asset manager
  headquartered in London and regulated by the FCA and PRA. Its lines of business are life and protection insurance (term
  life, critical illness, income protection), workplace and individual pensions, annuities and bulk-purchase annuity/pension
  risk transfer, equity release through Legal & General Home Finance, and asset management through Legal & General Investment
  Management. It is a life and health carrier rather than a general insurer, and it distributes almost entirely through regulated
  intermediaries — financial advisers, mortgage brokers and employee-benefit consultants — rather than direct-to-developer.
  Its API posture reflects that distribution model honestly: Legal & General publishes NO public, self-serve developer portal,
  no public API reference, and no downloadable OpenAPI or Swagger definition. No developer.legalandgeneral.com, developers,
  docs, or api subdomain resolves in DNS, and /developers, /api, /developer, /partners and /integrations all return HTTP 404
  on the primary site. Every documented Legal & General API is a bilateral, partner-gated integration announced by the counterparty
  rather than published by Legal & General — real-time equity release quotation, KFI and application APIs wired into Iress
  "The Exchange", Air Sourcing and the Advise Wise platform, a Mortgage Club integration with Kensington Mortgages, and adviser-facing
  protection quote-and-apply through OLP Connect. Adviser identity and messaging run on the UK''s Origo rails — Unipass digital
  certificates, Unipass Letter of Authority and Origo Track My Apps — which is the UK life and pensions analogue of ACORD;
  no ACORD, AL3, ACORD XML or NGDS reference appears anywhere in Legal & General''s public surface. The only public Legal
  & General code is the Canopy design system on GitHub — an Apache-2.0 Angular component library shipped through GitHub Packages,
  with dated semver release notes, a published breaking-change policy, a repository security policy, and 84 installable agent
  skills (69 component best-practice skills and 15 per-major migration skills) that work with GitHub Copilot, Claude Code
  and Cursor. That makes Legal & General agent-native on the front end and completely closed on the API. This record exists
  to measure that split accurately: a large carrier whose integration surface is entirely intermediary-gated and invisible
  from outside a login wall.'
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: Apache-2.0
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
tags:
- Insurance
- United Kingdom
- Life Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Employee Benefits
- Pensions
- Annuities
- Asset Management
- Underwriting
- Carrier
- Brokers
- Partner Gated
- No Public API
- Design System
- Agent Skills
- Open-Source
tags_raw:
- Insurance
- United Kingdom
- Life Insurance
- Health Insurance
- Employee Benefits
- Pensions
- Annuities
- Asset Management
- Underwriting
- Carrier
- Broker
- Partner Gated
- No Public API
- Design System
- Agent Skills
- Open Source
created: '2026-07-25'
modified: '2026-07-25'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
apis: []
common:
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/releases
- type: CodeOfConduct
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/blob/master/docs/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/blob/master/docs/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: Apache-2.0
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/blob/master/LICENSE
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/legal-and-general-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/legal-and-general-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  name: Canopy security policy (only published reporting route)
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/blob/master/docs/SECURITY.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Canopy agent skills (84 published)
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/legal-and-general-packages.yml
- type: Components
  url: components/legal-and-general-components.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/legal-and-general-changelog.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/legal-and-general-lifecycle.yml
- type: Deprecation
  name: Canopy breaking-change policy
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy/blob/master/docs/BREAKING_CHANGES.md
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/legal-and-general-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/legal-and-general-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/
- type: CorporateWebsite
  url: https://group.legalandgeneral.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General
- type: SourceCode
  name: Canopy design system
  url: https://github.com/Legal-and-General/canopy
- type: Blog
  url: https://group.legalandgeneral.com/en/newsroom/press-releases
- type: Login
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/log-in/
- type: Support
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/contact-us/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/help/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/privacy-notice/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/legal-information/
- type: Accessibility
  url: https://www.legalandgeneral.com/accessibility/
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com

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