Lightforce

LightForce Orthodontics, Inc. is a Boston-area medical device and digital manufacturing company that produces "generative braces" — fully customized, 3D-printed orthodontic brackets and indirect bonding trays generated from each patient's own tooth anatomy and the treating orthodontist's digital treatment plan. Doctors submit intraoral scans and treatment plans through the LightForce Doctor Portal, LightForce designs and 3D-prints patient-specific LightBracket ceramic and metal appliances, and ships custom IDB trays back to the practice. The company operates as a HIPAA-covered digital workflow: no public developer API or developer portal is published, but the Doctor Portal is fronted by a public OpenID Connect identity surface at id.lightforceortho.com. Backed by Matrix Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and others.

Lightforce is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Health Tech, Orthodontics, Dentistry, and Medical Devices.

Lightforce’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, and 13 more developer resources.

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25.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessSelf serve

1 API

Company Health Tech OrthodonticsDentistryMedical Devices 3D Printing Digital Manufacturing Identity Healthcare Dental Manufacturing

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-31 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 25.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.6 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 5.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 5.5 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 5.3 — up to +12.3 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Canada Medical Device Licensing (Health Canada MDALL licence holders, incl. SaMD)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

LightForce Identity (OpenID Connect)

The public OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 identity surface that fronts the LightForce Doctor Portal. Published as a live OIDC discovery document at id.lightforceortho.com/.well-know...

Security Posture 2

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

Lightforce Authentication

openIdConnect/oauth2 · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Lightforce Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Lightforce Scopes

14 scopes · authorizationCode

14 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Compliance

Authentication

OAuthScopes

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
name: Lightforce
description: 'LightForce Orthodontics, Inc. is a Boston-area medical device and digital manufacturing company that produces
  "generative braces" — fully customized, 3D-printed orthodontic brackets and indirect bonding trays generated from each patient''s
  own tooth anatomy and the treating orthodontist''s digital treatment plan. Doctors submit intraoral scans and treatment
  plans through the LightForce Doctor Portal, LightForce designs and 3D-prints patient-specific LightBracket ceramic and metal
  appliances, and ships custom IDB trays back to the practice. The company operates as a HIPAA-covered digital workflow: no
  public developer API or developer portal is published, but the Doctor Portal is fronted by a public OpenID Connect identity
  surface at id.lightforceortho.com. Backed by Matrix Partners, Kleiner Perkins, and others.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightforce/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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/69aec45d4fb611242f119860/69e28a19a4f73f9aaab7e1f9_fav-lightforce%20256.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- matrix-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Health Tech
- Orthodontics
- Dentistry
- Medical Devices
- 3D Printing
- Digital Manufacturing
- Identity
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Manufacturing
tags_raw:
- Company
- Healthtech
- Orthodontics
- Dentistry
- Medical Devices
- 3D Printing
- Digital Manufacturing
- Identity
- Healthcare
- Dental
- Manufacturing
apis:
- aid: lightforce:identity
  name: LightForce Identity (OpenID Connect)
  description: The public OpenID Connect / OAuth 2.0 identity surface that fronts the LightForce Doctor Portal. Published
    as a live OIDC discovery document at id.lightforceortho.com/.well-known/openid-configuration, it exposes standard authorization,
    token, device-authorization, userinfo, revocation, dynamic client registration, and JWKS endpoints. Client registration
    is not open to the public — this is the authentication surface for LightForce practice users, captured here because it
    is genuinely public and machine-discoverable.
  humanURL: https://id.lightforceortho.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
  baseURL: https://id.lightforceortho.com
  tags:
  - Identity
  - OpenID Connect
  - Authentication
  tags_raw:
  - Identity
  - OpenID Connect
  - OAuth 2.0
  - Authentication
  properties:
  - type: OpenIDConnect
    url: https://id.lightforceortho.com/.well-known/openid-configuration
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/lightforce-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/lightforce-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://lf.co
- type: Support
  url: https://kb.lightforceortho.com/en/
- type: Blog
  url: https://lf.co/blog
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/lightforceortho
- 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: Compliance
  url: https://lf.co/legal/hipaa
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/lightforce-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/lightforce-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/lightforce-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lightforce-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightforce-domain-security.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/lightforce-conventions.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lightforce-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/lightforce-packages.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

Lightforce API — frequently asked questions

Does Lightforce have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Lightforce, including LightForce Identity (OpenID Connect).

How do I authenticate with the Lightforce API?

Lightforce documents its authentication (openIdConnect/oauth2 · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Lightforce Authentication.

Is the Lightforce API ready for AI agents?

Lightforce has a Kin Score of 25.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 15.1 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-10-31.

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