# Lightforce

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/lightforce/  
**Website:** https://lf.co  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 28.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-30 under rubric 0.17.2. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 28.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 42.1 |
| Access Clarity | 42.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 58.8 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 15.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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 (2)

- **Lightforce Authentication** — openIdConnect/oauth2 · 2 schemes
- **Lightforce Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Healthtech, Orthodontics, Dentistry, Medical Devices, 3D Printing, Digital Manufacturing, Identity

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