# Mainstay

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mainstay/  
**Website:** https://www.mainstay.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Mainstay (formerly AdmitHub) is a student engagement platform for higher education that delivers human-centered, AI-enhanced conversational coaching to students via SMS text messaging, live chat, web chat, and social messaging. Grounded in behavioral science research, its two-way messaging assistant nudges students through enrollment, registration, financial aid, and academic milestones while giving institutional staff insights and tools to improve engagement, persistence, and outcomes. Mainstay is a Techstars portfolio company. It publishes an API-token authenticated REST API (v1.0, base URL https://api.admithub.com) documented at docs.api.mainstay.com, used to sync student and employee records and engagement data between Mainstay and external systems; tokens are generated from the Mainstay dashboard and presented as Bearer credentials.

## Kin Score — 26.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 26.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 41.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 50.0 |

## Agent readiness — 9.0 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| 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 |

## Access

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

## APIs (1)

- **Mainstay API** — AdmitHub/Mainstay REST API v1.0 for syncing student and employee records and engagement data between Mainstay and external systems, with Bearer API-token authentication.

## Security (3)

- **Mainstay Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Mainstay Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC
- **Mainstay Trust Center** — SOC 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, GDPR

## Tags

Company, Education, EdTech, Higher Education, Conversational AI, Student Engagement, Chatbot, Messaging

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