# Leif

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/leif/  
**Website:** https://www.leif.org/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Leif (Leif Technologies, Inc.) was a New York City education-finance technology company, founded in 2017 by Francis Larson, Jeffrey Groeber and Richard Lee, that built an end-to-end platform for designing, originating, servicing and financing outcomes-aligned tuition products for schools and bootcamps. Its product line covered Income Share Agreements, contingent payment plans, tuition installment plans and upfront payment, alongside career-services and advisory-insights modules, and the platform handled student identity verification, credit evaluation, income verification, disbursement, payment collection and program reporting for its school partners. Leif publicly claimed more than 20,000 originations across 200+ partner schools and over $400 million in arranged financing, and it raised a strategic financing round totalling more than $60 million in 2021. Leif never operated a public developer program: the archived marketing site carries no developer portal, API reference or documentation nav, and the only API surface ever visible was the private JSON API behind its own student and school applications (leif.org/api/*). As of the 2026-08-25 probe the company's entire public surface is dark — leif.org and www.leif.org fail the TLS handshake at their Webflow edge, app.leif.org returns 504 on every path, the Zendesk help center is gone, and the api.leif.org and sandbox.leif.org AWS API Gateway hosts answer only "Missing Authentication Token".

## Kin Score — 2.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 2.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 53.7 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 11.1 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (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 | documented |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Leif Domain Security** — DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Leif Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Education, Education Finance, Income Share Agreement, Student Lending, Fintech, Financial-Services, Tuition, Payments, Lending, New York

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