Motley

Motley is a Zurich-based company building a governed semantic layer for AI agents and business intelligence. Its open-core product, SLayer (motley-slayer), is a lightweight, agent-first semantic layer and query engine: teams model measures, dimensions, and filters once, and SLayer generates and executes correct SQL across Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB and more — exposed over MCP, a REST API, a CLI, a Python client, Apache Arrow Flight SQL, and a Postgres facade for BI tools. Motley Cloud adds the managed production layer on top: hosting, OAuth-based access control, row-level security, versioning, and a governed reporting engine that turns agent queries into reports, charts, documents, and presentations. Founded by Egor Kraev (ex-Head of AI at Wise), Artemy Belousov, and Yann Ranchere; backed by Seedcamp.

Motley is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Semantic Layer, Business Intelligence, Analytics, and AI Agents.

Motley’s developer surface includes engineering blog, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, signup flow, support, and 27 more developer resources.

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38.4/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive open core · MIT Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

1 API 1 MCP Servers

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Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 38.4/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 12.9 / 15

Access Clarity 4.7 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.6 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.1 / 15

Open Source Surface 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 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 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Open Source Surface applies to this provider. This product is open source and we read its repository directly, so Open Source Surface carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from what the repository actually publishes — a security policy, a contribution guide, a release history, a code of conduct — read live from the provider rather than inferred from our own catalog pointers. This facet adds; nothing was taken away to make room for it. An open-source project is not excused from the commercial facets, because exemption would strip it of the points it does earn. If we have the wrong repository, or this product is not open source, say so on your provider repo and we will drop the facet rather than have you publish against it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because both conditional facets apply and carry 25 points together. 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):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
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)

7 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 31.6 — up to +13.7 composite points
Contract Governance scores 4.5 — up to +11.5 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Agent Skills (SKILL.md packages)	undeclared	-	-	1

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 4

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Agent Skills

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 1

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

Motley SLayer Semantic Layer

SLayer is Motley's open-core, agent-first semantic layer and query engine. Agents and applications describe measures, dimensions, and filters and SLayer compiles and runs the co...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Motley MCP Server

SLayer runs as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) can discover and query data conversationally. It exposes the same tools across two trans...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

Motley Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Motley Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Motley Scopes

7 scopes · authorizationCode

7 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

SignUp

Sandbox

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

ContributionGuide

ContributionGuide

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

AgentSkill

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Build 5

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

SourceCode

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 4

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

IssueTracker

Releases

Support

ChangeLog

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

License

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Blog

BlogRSS

Website

Blog

LinkedIn

Source (apis.yml)

aid: motley
name: Motley
description: 'Motley is a Zurich-based company building a governed semantic layer for AI agents and business intelligence.
  Its open-core product, SLayer (motley-slayer), is a lightweight, agent-first semantic layer and query engine: teams model
  measures, dimensions, and filters once, and SLayer generates and executes correct SQL across Postgres, MySQL, Snowflake,
  BigQuery, ClickHouse, DuckDB and more — exposed over MCP, a REST API, a CLI, a Python client, Apache Arrow Flight SQL, and
  a Postgres facade for BI tools. Motley Cloud adds the managed production layer on top: hosting, OAuth-based access control,
  row-level security, versioning, and a governed reporting engine that turns agent queries into reports, charts, documents,
  and presentations. Founded by Egor Kraev (ex-Head of AI at Wise), Artemy Belousov, and Yann Ranchere; backed by Seedcamp.'
deliveryModel:
  model: open-core
  license: MIT
  open_source: true
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Open core · an OSS project plus a commercial hosted product
  confidence: high
  source:
  - license
  - 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
  - scopes
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/MotleyAI/slayer/main/docs/images/slayer-hero.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/motley/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
x-docs-platform: mkdocs
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Semantic Layer
- Business Intelligence
- Analytics
- AI Agents
- MCP
- SQL
- Data
- Reporting
apis:
- name: Motley SLayer Semantic Layer
  description: SLayer is Motley's open-core, agent-first semantic layer and query engine. Agents and applications describe
    measures, dimensions, and filters and SLayer compiles and runs the correct SQL across many databases, exposed over MCP,
    REST, CLI, a Python client, Apache Arrow Flight SQL, and a Postgres facade. Motley Cloud is the managed, governed, OAuth-secured
    hosted layer.
  humanURL: https://docs.motley.ai/slayer/
  baseURL: https://app.motley.ai/api/v1/
  tags:
  - Semantic Layer
  - Analytics
  - MCP
  - SQL
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.motley.ai/slayer/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.motley.ai/slayer/getting-started/
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://docs.motley.ai/slayer/getting-started/rest-api
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/motley-mcp.yml
  - type: CLI
    url: cli/motley-cli.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://motley.ai/blog/
  type: Blog
- url: https://motley.ai/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: IssueTracker
  url: https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer/issues
- type: Releases
  url: https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer/releases
- type: ContributionGuide
  url: https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md
- type: License
  name: MIT
  url: https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer/blob/main/LICENSE
- type: Website
  url: https://motley.ai
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.motley.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.motley.ai/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.motley.ai/slayer/reference/
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.motley.ai/slayer/getting-started/
- type: Blog
  url: https://motley.ai/blog
- type: Pricing
  url: https://motley.ai/pricing
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.motley.ai
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://motley.ai/legal/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://motley.ai/legal/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/MotleyAI
- type: Support
  url: https://discord.gg/egWxMctHCA
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/usemotley/
- type: SourceCode
  url: https://github.com/MotleyAI/slayer
- type: Packages
  url: packages/motley-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/motley-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/motley-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/motley-cli.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/motley-changelog.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/motley-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/motley-scopes.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/motley-well-known.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/motley-conventions.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/motley-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/motley-sandbox.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/motley-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/motley-domain-security.yml

Motley API — frequently asked questions

Does Motley have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Motley, including Motley SLayer Semantic Layer.

How do I authenticate with the Motley API?

Motley documents its authentication (oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Motley Authentication.

Does Motley have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Motley: SLayer runs as a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server so AI agents (Claude, Cursor, etc.) can discover and query data conversationally. It exposes the same tools across two transports.

Is the Motley API ready for AI agents?

Motley has a Kin Score of 38.4 out of 100 (thin) and an Agent Readiness score of 30.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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