Lightning Social Ventures

aid: lightning-social-ventures
name: Lightning Social Ventures
description: Lightning Social Ventures is the UK social-impact company behind Lightning Reach, a financial support platform
  that connects people facing hardship to grants, benefits, vouchers and assistance schemes through a single profile and eligibility
  match. Councils, housing associations, charities, utilities and banks use the platform to run and administer their own support
  programmes, from application intake through evidence review to award and payment. Lightning Reach operates a partner-facing
  REST API that exposes support schemes, application submission and referral, applicant evidence assets, decision and award
  recording, and webhook subscriptions with public-key signature verification.
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: open
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: true
  label: Open access
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
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url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightning-social-ventures/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: openapi-harvested
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Financial Inclusion
- Grants
- Social Impact
- Non-Profit
- Housing
- Government
- Welfare Benefits
- United Kingdom
tags_raw:
- Company
- Financial Inclusion
- Grants
- Social Impact
- Nonprofit
- Housing
- Government
- Welfare Benefits
- United Kingdom
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: lightning-social-ventures:lightning-social-ventures-applications-api
  name: Lightning Social Ventures Applications API
  description: The Applications API from Lightning Social Ventures — 5 operation(s) for applications.
  humanURL: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightningreach.org
  tags:
  - Application
  tags_raw:
  - Applications
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightning-social-ventures-applications-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
- aid: lightning-social-ventures:lightning-social-ventures-support-schemes-api
  name: Lightning Social Ventures Support Schemes API
  description: The Support Schemes API from Lightning Social Ventures — 1 operation(s) for support schemes.
  humanURL: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightningreach.org
  tags:
  - Support Schemes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightning-social-ventures-support-schemes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
- aid: lightning-social-ventures:lightning-social-ventures-webhooks-api
  name: Lightning Social Ventures Webhooks API
  description: The Webhooks API from Lightning Social Ventures — 2 operation(s) for webhooks.
  humanURL: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
  baseURL: https://api.lightningreach.org
  tags:
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Webhooks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/lightning-social-ventures-webhooks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/lightning-social-ventures-lightning-reach-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://lightningreach.org/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.lightningreach.org/docs
- type: Support
  url: https://www.lightningreach.org/support
- type: SignUp
  url: https://apply.lightningreach.org/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://apply.lightningreach.org/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.lightningreach.org/terms-and-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.lightningreach.org/privacy-policy
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/lightning-social-ventures-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lightning-social-ventures-llms.txt
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/lightning-social-ventures-webhooks.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/lightning-social-ventures-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/lightning-social-ventures-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/lightning-social-ventures-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/lightning-social-ventures-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/lightning-social-ventures-data-model.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightning-social-ventures-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/lightning-social-ventures-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Lightning Reach Agent Skills
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Submit an application to a Lightning Reach support scheme
  url: skills/lightning-social-ventures-submit-application.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Review an application and record an award decision
  url: skills/lightning-social-ventures-review-and-decide.md
- type: AgentSkill
  name: Refer a client onward and track webhook events
  url: skills/lightning-social-ventures-refer-and-track.md
x-enrichment-notes:
  pointers_deliberately_withheld:
  - type: Authentication
    reason: The authentication/ artifact exists, but it records that Lightning Reach does NOT document its auth mechanism
      (no securitySchemes in the OpenAPI, no WWW-Authenticate challenge, no auth docs page). Emitting an Authentication pointer
      would falsely satisfy the authentication_documented check.
  - type: Idempotency
    reason: The API exposes no Idempotency-Key contract; conventions/ records idempotency as unsupported.
  - type: StatusPage
    reason: No status page exists (status.lightningreach.org does not resolve). The API root is a bare health check.
  - type: Deprecation
    reason: No deprecation or versioning policy is published.
  - type: Security
    reason: probe-security-programs.py found no security.txt, no disclosure page and no bug-bounty programme.
  - type: Compliance
    reason: No certifications or compliance programme are published; nothing verifiable to point at.
  - type: WellKnown
    reason: No .well-known document is served on any host; well-known/ records the negative probe only.
  - type: SDKs
    reason: No first-party client libraries exist on npm, PyPI or any other registry.
  - type: Documentation
    reason: The only API documentation is the Swagger UI, already pointed at as APIReference.
  not_applicable:
  - scopes (no oauth2 securityScheme and no documented OAuth)
  - packages, cli, components, sandbox, changelog, grpc (none published)
  - decline-codes (not a payments/authorization provider; per-scheme declineReasons captured in data-model/)
  - asyncapi spec (no AsyncAPI document; webhook surface captured instead)
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence