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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21.8/100 emerging Agent 14/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4

1 APIs 0 Features

CompanyHealthtechOrthodonticsDentistryMedical Devices3D PrintingDigital ManufacturingIdentity

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4

Composite quality — 21.8/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.5 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.4 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 14/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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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
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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- 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
  - 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