# MindSumo

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/mindsumo/  
**Website:** http://mindsumo.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

MindSumo was a crowdsourcing and open-innovation platform that connected companies with a community of students and young professionals to solve time-boxed business challenges for monetary prizes, generating ideas, market insight, and hiring leads. A GV (Google Ventures) portfolio company later acquired by MBO Partners, the platform distributed over $1.3M in rewards across 1,300+ challenges in 200+ countries before being permanently shut down after 13 years of operation. MindSumo never published a public developer API, SDK, or documentation surface; this profile records its identity and the residual public web properties (terms, privacy) that remain live.

## Kin Score — 7.1 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 7.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Mindsumo Domain Security** — TLSv1.2 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Crowdsourcing, Open Innovation, Challenges, Talent, Insights

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