LightForce Orthodontics

LightForce Orthodontics is a Burlington, Massachusetts medical device manufacturer that produces 3D-printed, patient-specific orthodontic brackets marketed as "generative braces". Its LightBracket, LightTray indirect-bonding and LightTray Turbo products are generated from each patient's digital orthodontic treatment plan and printed in the United States, giving orthodontists micron-level control across six dimensions and letting them preview the projected outcome before treatment begins. LightForce sells to orthodontic practices rather than to developers: doctors work through a Doctor Portal and a hosted knowledge base, and the company publishes no public developer portal, API reference, SDKs or machine-readable API specification. The only publicly reachable programmable surface is its Auth0-hosted identity tenant at id.lightforceortho.com, which serves standard OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 authorization-server discovery documents. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.

LightForce Orthodontics is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Healthcare, Orthodontics, Medical Devices, and Dental.

LightForce Orthodontics’ developer surface includes developer portal, support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 10 more developer resources.

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24.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

0 APIs

Company Healthcare Orthodontics Medical Devices Dental 3D Printing Manufacturing Identity

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 24.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.9 / 17

Access Clarity 5.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 7.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 15/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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.

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.

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Security Posture 2

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

Lightforce Orthodontics Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lightforce Orthodontics Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lightforce Orthodontics Scopes

14 scopes · authorizationCode

14 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Portal

Portal

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

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

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lightforce-orthodontics
name: LightForce Orthodontics
description: 'LightForce Orthodontics is a Burlington, Massachusetts medical device manufacturer that produces 3D-printed,
  patient-specific orthodontic brackets marketed as "generative braces". Its LightBracket, LightTray indirect-bonding and
  LightTray Turbo products are generated from each patient''s digital orthodontic treatment plan and printed in the United
  States, giving orthodontists micron-level control across six dimensions and letting them preview the projected outcome before
  treatment begins. LightForce sells to orthodontic practices rather than to developers: doctors work through a Doctor Portal
  and a hosted knowledge base, and the company publishes no public developer portal, API reference, SDKs or machine-readable
  API specification. The only publicly reachable programmable surface is its Auth0-hosted identity tenant at id.lightforceortho.com,
  which serves standard OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 authorization-server discovery documents. Backed by Kleiner Perkins.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/69aec45d4fb611242f119860/69e9d73bdc029cbaa9bc1429_Logo%20Image%20Cover.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightforce-orthodontics/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- kleiner-perkins
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Healthcare
- Orthodontics
- Medical Devices
- Dental
- 3D Printing
- Manufacturing
- Identity
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://lf.co/
- type: Portal
  url: https://id.lightforceortho.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://kb.lightforceortho.com/en/
- type: Blog
  url: https://lf.co/blog
- type: SignUp
  url: https://lf.co/doctors/get-started
- type: Login
  url: https://id.lightforceortho.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://lf.co/legal/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lf.co/legal/privacy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/lightforceortho
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/lightforce-orthodontics-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lightforce-orthodontics-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/lightforce-orthodontics-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lightforce-orthodontics-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightforce-orthodontics-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lightforce-orthodontics-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence
x-parent: lightforce
x-relationship: product

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