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 publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Healthtech, 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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28.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 15/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs

CompanyHealthtechOrthodonticsDentistryMedical Devices 3D Printing Digital Manufacturing Identity

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

Composite quality — 28.3/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 7.2 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.5 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.8 / 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 Surface 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.

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APIs 1

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

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
- Healthtech
- Orthodontics
- Dentistry
- Medical Devices
- 3D Printing
- Digital Manufacturing
- Identity
tags_raw:
- Company
- Healthtech
- Orthodontics
- Dentistry
- Medical Devices
- 3D Printing
- Digital Manufacturing
- Identity
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

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