Lightship

Lightship is an American manufacturer of all-electric travel trailers, co-founded by former Tesla leaders Toby Kraus and Ben Parker, with design and manufacturing in Colorado and offices in San Francisco. Its flagship product, the AE.1, is marketed as the first mass-produced all-electric travel trailer, offering up to 77 kWh of battery capacity, 1.8 kW of integrated solar, and named technologies including TrekDrive self-propulsion, CampQuiet silent operation, and Aero-Electric Design. Owners control the trailer through an onboard Atlas tablet and companion mobile app. Lightship sells direct to consumer and states that more than 85% of its supply chain is in the United States. Enrichment probes on 2026-07-19 found no public API, developer portal, SDK, or /.well-known/ discovery surface; this is a company record in the API Evangelist network rather than an API listing.

Lightship is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Electric Vehicles, Automotive, Manufacturing, and Clean Energy.

Lightship’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, pricing, and 9 more developer resources.

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13.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs

Company Electric Vehicles Automotive Manufacturing Clean Energy Travel Outdoor Recreation Consumer Hardware Sustainability

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 13.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 5.4 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.8 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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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.

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Security Posture 1

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

Lightship Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Contact

Contact

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

PressKit

Careers

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Events

Events

Source (apis.yml)

aid: lightship
name: Lightship
description: Lightship is an American manufacturer of all-electric travel trailers, co-founded by former Tesla leaders Toby
  Kraus and Ben Parker, with design and manufacturing in Colorado and offices in San Francisco. Its flagship product, the
  AE.1, is marketed as the first mass-produced all-electric travel trailer, offering up to 77 kWh of battery capacity, 1.8
  kW of integrated solar, and named technologies including TrekDrive self-propulsion, CampQuiet silent operation, and Aero-Electric
  Design. Owners control the trailer through an onboard Atlas tablet and companion mobile app. Lightship sells direct to consumer
  and states that more than 85% of its supply chain is in the United States. Enrichment probes on 2026-07-19 found no public
  API, developer portal, SDK, or /.well-known/ discovery surface; this is a company record in the API Evangelist network rather
  than an API listing.
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: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://lightshiprv.com/uploads/pages/Homepage/HEADER_Images/TEst/Ligthship%C2%AE_AE.1TM_Atmos_ShadeMoss_Exterior_CampMode_Image_1.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lightship/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- obvious-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-no-public-api: true
x-no-public-api-checked: '2026-07-19'
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Electric Vehicles
- Automotive
- Manufacturing
- Clean Energy
- Travel
- Outdoor Recreation
- Consumer Hardware
- Sustainability
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://lightshiprv.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/journal
- type: Support
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/faq
- type: Contact
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/contact
- type: Pricing
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/customization/ae-1
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/privacy-policy
- type: PressKit
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/press-and-media
- type: Careers
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/careers
- type: Events
  url: https://lightshiprv.com/events
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lightship-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lightship-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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