# Motley

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/motley/  
**Website:** https://motley.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 34.0 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 34.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 4.5 |
| Contract Governance | 4.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 85.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 31.6 |
| Access Clarity | 31.6 |

## Agent readiness — 23.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | yes |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **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...

## Security (2)

- **Motley Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect · 2 schemes
- **Motley Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Semantic Layer, Business Intelligence, Analytics, AI Agents, MCP, SQL, Data, Reporting

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