Modern

Modern (modernis.com) is a two-way customer interaction platform for heavy-equipment dealerships, unifying service communications "from intake to invoice" across construction, agriculture, mining, landscaping, and material-handling sectors. It provides two-way text and email messaging, digital repair-order approvals, inspection and warranty documentation, outbound maintenance scheduling, rental tracking, parts-order status, and DMS integration. The MODERN Partner API (docs.modernis.com, base https://connect.modernis.com) lets authorized integrators read dealership dashboards, manage service work orders, post work-order events, send customer notifications, and maintain technicians and notes on a franchise's behalf using 24-hour bearer tokens exchanged from franchise credentials.

Modern is listed with 8 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Dashboards API, Events API, Federation API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Heavy Equipment, Dealership, Field Service Management, and Work Orders.

The Modern catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Modern’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, authentication, and 9 more developer resources.

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24.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Front door AI 2/6 trace Heartbeat 97/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

8 APIs 2 Agent Skills

Company Heavy Equipment Dealership Field Service Management Work Orders Customer Communication Notification Partner API

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 24.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 3.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 5.1 / 15

Access Clarity 2.6 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 15.8 — up to +21.1 composite points
Access Clarity scores 17.1 — up to +16.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 33.9 — up to +13.2 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Modern Dashboards API

Franchise dashboards and dashboard types

Modern Events API

Work-order event types and event creation

Modern Federation API

Token exchange / authentication

Modern Notes API

Technician / work-order notes

Modern Notifications API

Customer notifications

Modern Technicians API

Technician records

Modern Users API

Dashboard users

Modern Work Orders API

Service work order lifecycle

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Postman Collections 1

Ready-to-run Postman collections for exercising this provider's APIs.

MODERN Partner API - Documentation

POSTMAN

Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

MODERN Partner Dashboards API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Events API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Federation API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Notes API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Notifications API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Technicians API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Users API

OPEN COLLECTION

MODERN Partner Dashboards Work Orders API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Create and manage work orders

AGENT SKILL

Update service status and notify the customer

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Modern API Rules

60 rules · 57 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Modern Partner Api Overlay

2 actions · update · modern-partner-api-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Modern Authentication

http-basic/http-bearer · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Modern Domain Security

TLSv1.3

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Blog

Blog

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: modern
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/modern.png
name: Modern
description: Modern (modernis.com) is a two-way customer interaction platform for heavy-equipment dealerships, unifying service
  communications "from intake to invoice" across construction, agriculture, mining, landscaping, and material-handling sectors.
  It provides two-way text and email messaging, digital repair-order approvals, inspection and warranty documentation, outbound
  maintenance scheduling, rental tracking, parts-order status, and DMS integration. The MODERN Partner API (docs.modernis.com,
  base https://connect.modernis.com) lets authorized integrators read dealership dashboards, manage service work orders, post
  work-order events, send customer notifications, and maintain technicians and notes on a franchise's behalf using 24-hour
  bearer tokens exchanged from franchise credentials.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/modern/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: postman
x-docs-platform-confidence: high
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
tags:
- Company
- Heavy Equipment
- Dealership
- Field Service Management
- Work Orders
- Customer Communication
- Notification
- Partner API
tags_raw:
- Company
- Heavy Equipment
- Dealership
- Field Service
- Work Orders
- Customer Communications
- Notifications
- Partner API
apis:
- aid: modern:modern-dashboards-api
  name: Modern Dashboards API
  description: Franchise dashboards and dashboard types
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-dashboards-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-events-api
  name: Modern Events API
  description: Work-order event types and event creation
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Event
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-events-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-federation-api
  name: Modern Federation API
  description: Token exchange / authentication
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Federation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-federation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-notes-api
  name: Modern Notes API
  description: Technician / work-order notes
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Notes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-notes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-notifications-api
  name: Modern Notifications API
  description: Customer notifications
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Notification
  tags_raw:
  - Notifications
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-notifications-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-technicians-api
  name: Modern Technicians API
  description: Technician records
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Technicians
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-technicians-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-users-api
  name: Modern Users API
  description: Dashboard users
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-users-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
- aid: modern:modern-work-orders-api
  name: Modern Work Orders API
  description: Service work order lifecycle
  humanURL: https://docs.modernis.com/
  baseURL: https://connect.modernis.com
  tags:
  - Work Orders
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/modern-work-orders-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Postman
    url: https://docs.modernis.com/api/collections/1530425/RWEgreaJ?segregateAuth=true&versionTag=latest
  - type: PostmanCollection
    url: postman/modern-partner-api.postman_collection.json
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/modern-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/modern-error-codes.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/modern-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/modern-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/modern-conformance.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/modern-llms.txt
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://modernis.com/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://modernis.com/feed/
  type: BlogRSS
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/modern-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/modern-partner-api-overlay.yaml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/modern-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://modernis.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.modernis.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.modernis.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.modernis.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/modern-authentication.yml
- type: Login
  url: https://service.modernis.com/login
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://modernis.com/privacy-policy/
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

Modern API — frequently asked questions

Does Modern have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Modern, including Modern Dashboards API, Modern Events API and Modern Federation API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Modern API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Modern, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Modern API?

Modern uses bearer-token authentication (http-basic/http-bearer · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Modern Authentication.

Is the Modern API ready for AI agents?

Modern has a Kin Score of 24.3 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 25.3 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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