Modern Electron

Modern Electron is a Bothell, Washington energy-hardware company founded in 2015 by Tony Pan (CEO) and Max Mankin (CTO) as a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures. It was built to commercialize advanced thermionic energy converters — solid-state, direct heat-to-electricity devices intended to add on-site generation to combustion and thermal equipment. The company now operates publicly as Modern Hydrogen, applying methane pyrolysis behind the meter to crack natural gas into hydrogen and solid carbon before combustion, for industrial heat and steam, on-site power, data-center energy, asphalt products and heavy-duty fleet fueling. The product is physical equipment installed at customer sites; Modern Electron / Modern Hydrogen operates no developer program, publishes no public API, SDK or machine-readable specification, and its public GitHub organization holds only forks of open-source scientific-computing projects (WarpX, AMReX, PICMI, GPy) used in its own R&D.

Modern Electron is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Energy, Hydrogen, Clean Energy, and Hardware.

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4.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0

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Company Energy Hydrogen Clean Energy Hardware Manufacturing Climate TechThermionics

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scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0

Composite quality — 4.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.6 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.2 / 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: modern-electron
name: Modern Electron
description: Modern Electron is a Bothell, Washington energy-hardware company founded in 2015 by Tony Pan (CEO) and Max Mankin
  (CTO) as a spin-out of Intellectual Ventures. It was built to commercialize advanced thermionic energy converters — solid-state,
  direct heat-to-electricity devices intended to add on-site generation to combustion and thermal equipment. The company now
  operates publicly as Modern Hydrogen, applying methane pyrolysis behind the meter to crack natural gas into hydrogen and
  solid carbon before combustion, for industrial heat and steam, on-site power, data-center energy, asphalt products and heavy-duty
  fleet fueling. The product is physical equipment installed at customer sites; Modern Electron / Modern Hydrogen operates
  no developer program, publishes no public API, SDK or machine-readable specification, and its public GitHub organization
  holds only forks of open-source scientific-computing projects (WarpX, AMReX, PICMI, GPy) used in its own R&D.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/modern-electron/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
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-25'
modified: '2026-08-25'
tags:
- Company
- Energy
- Hydrogen
- Clean Energy
- Hardware
- Manufacturing
- Climate Tech
- Thermionics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/modern-electron-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://modernhydrogen.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/modernelectron
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/modern-electron-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-25'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Modern Electron (now trading as Modern Hydrogen) sells physical energy hardware — thermionic converters and behind-the-meter
    methane-pyrolysis units installed at customer sites — and runs no developer program; its brand domain modernelectron.com
    302s every path to modernhydrogen.com, which at probe time answered the Pantheon platform "404 - Unknown site" for the
    site root itself behind a default *.pantheonsite.io certificate that does not cover the domain.
  evidence:
  - url: http://modernelectron.com/
    status: 302
  - url: https://modernhydrogen.com/
    status: 404
  - url: https://modernhydrogen.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://modernhydrogen.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://github.com/modernelectron
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-25'

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