Material Exchange website screenshot

Material Exchange

Material Exchange is a sourcing platform that structures early-stage sourcing workflows for product development teams, backed by Partech. It provides a structured, agentic environment - with an AI assistant named Frank - to define sourcing direction, align stakeholders, and coordinate sourcing earlier in product development. The platform helps teams structure briefs, identify relevant suppliers and materials, surface missing cost or compliance data, compare options, and flag gaps before decisions move downstream. No public API, developer portal, SDKs, or documentation surface has been found; this profile was enriched via domain-security probes and public identity discovery only.

Material Exchange is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketplace, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Product Development.

7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyMarketplaceSourcingSupply ChainProduct DevelopmentMaterialsProcurementAI Assistant

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
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Security Posture 1

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

Material Exchange Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: material-exchange
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  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/material-exchange.png
name: Material Exchange
description: Material Exchange is a sourcing platform that structures early-stage sourcing workflows for product development
  teams, backed by Partech. It provides a structured, agentic environment - with an AI assistant named Frank - to define sourcing
  direction, align stakeholders, and coordinate sourcing earlier in product development. The platform helps teams structure
  briefs, identify relevant suppliers and materials, surface missing cost or compliance data, compare options, and flag gaps
  before decisions move downstream. No public API, developer portal, SDKs, or documentation surface has been found; this profile
  was enriched via domain-security probes and public identity discovery only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/material-exchange/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- partech
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Marketplace
- Sourcing
- Supply Chain
- Product Development
- Materials
- Procurement
- AI Assistant
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/material-exchange-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://material-exchange.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/material-exchange
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1