Lilac Solutions

Lilac Solutions is an Oakland, California climate-technology company founded in 2016 that develops direct lithium extraction (DLE) technology built on proprietary ion exchange media. Its ion exchange beads and modular brine processing systems pull battery-grade lithium from high-grade, low-grade and complex brines without evaporation ponds, cutting water use and shrinking the land footprint and time-to-production of conventional lithium operations. Lilac operates mini-pilot, field-pilot and commercial deployments across the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Nevada, Argentina, Chile, Germany and Indonesia, and manufactures its ion exchange media on a dedicated production line in Nevada. The company is venture-backed with roughly $350M raised, employs about 200 people, and sells industrial hardware and process technology to lithium producers — it publishes no public developer platform, API, or machine-readable API contract.

Lilac Solutions is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Lithium, Direct Lithium Extraction, Ion Exchange, and Critical Minerals.

Lilac Solutions’ developer surface includes engineering blog, product news, and 12 more developer resources.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

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Company LithiumDirect Lithium ExtractionIon ExchangeCritical Minerals Battery MaterialsMining TechnologyClimate Tech Energy TransitionIndustrial Hardware

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scored 2026-08-30 · rubric v0.17.2

Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17

Access Clarity 1.8 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 2.0 / 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 Surface 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: lilac-solutions
name: Lilac Solutions
description: Lilac Solutions is an Oakland, California climate-technology company founded in 2016 that develops direct lithium
  extraction (DLE) technology built on proprietary ion exchange media. Its ion exchange beads and modular brine processing
  systems pull battery-grade lithium from high-grade, low-grade and complex brines without evaporation ponds, cutting water
  use and shrinking the land footprint and time-to-production of conventional lithium operations. Lilac operates mini-pilot,
  field-pilot and commercial deployments across the Great Salt Lake in Utah, Nevada, Argentina, Chile, Germany and Indonesia,
  and manufactures its ion exchange media on a dedicated production line in Nevada. The company is venture-backed with roughly
  $350M raised, employs about 200 people, and sells industrial hardware and process technology to lithium producers — it publishes
  no public developer platform, API, or machine-readable API contract.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/lilac-solutions/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-01'
modified: '2026-08-01'
image: https://lilac-solutions.transforms.svdcdn.com/production/SEO/Lilac-SEO.jpg?w=1200&h=630&q=82&auto=format&fit=crop&dm=1739477438&s=08d385b49b797fe05aa7c8714df99fe2
tags:
- Company
- Lithium
- Direct Lithium Extraction
- Ion Exchange
- Critical Minerals
- Battery Materials
- Mining Technology
- Climate Tech
- Energy Transition
- Industrial Hardware
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/lilac-solutions-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/
- type: About
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/news
- type: News
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/news
- type: Technology
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/technology
- type: Projects
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/projects
- type: Careers
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/careers
- type: Contact
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://lilac-solutions.files.svdcdn.com/production/PDFs/PAGBAM_111224.pdf
- type: CookiePolicy
  url: https://lilacsolutions.com/cookie-consent-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/lilac-solutions/
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/lilac-solutions_stock/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/lilac-solutions-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-01'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1

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