Ndea

Ndea is an AI research and science laboratory founded by Francois Chollet (creator of the Keras deep learning library and the ARC-AGI benchmark) and Mike Knoop (co-founder of Zapier) with the mission of building frontier AI systems that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a single unified architecture. Ndea treats program synthesis, enhanced by deep learning, as a pathway to artificial general intelligence, arguing that synthesizing discrete programs that explain observed data generalizes better from few examples than deep learning alone. Its stated ambition is to build a "factory for rapid scientific advancement." Both founders also serve on the board of the nonprofit ARC Prize Foundation. Ndea publishes no public API, developer portal, or SDK at this time; this profile tracks the company's public web surface and is added to the API Evangelist network as a Menlo Ventures portfolio lead.

Ndea is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, AGI, Machine-Learning, and Program Synthesis.

Ndea’s developer surface includes YouTube channel and 11 more developer resources.

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5.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
0 APIs
CompanyArtificial IntelligenceAGIMachine-LearningProgram SynthesisDeep LearningReasoningResearch LabScience

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 5.7/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Access Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Contract Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.7 / 10
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 Well-Known Document 0 / 5
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Security Posture 1

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

Ndea Domain Security

TLSv1.3

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Resources

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Learn 1

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YouTube
YouTube

Operate 1

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Contact
Contact

Company 5

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Website
Website
 About
About
 Jobs
Jobs
 Twitter
Twitter
 Careers
Careers

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Podcast
Podcast
 X
X

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: ndea
name: Ndea
description: Ndea is an AI research and science laboratory founded by Francois Chollet (creator of the Keras deep learning
  library and the ARC-AGI benchmark) and Mike Knoop (co-founder of Zapier) with the mission of building frontier AI systems
  that blend intuitive pattern recognition and formal reasoning into a single unified architecture. Ndea treats program synthesis,
  enhanced by deep learning, as a pathway to artificial general intelligence, arguing that synthesizing discrete programs
  that explain observed data generalizes better from few examples than deep learning alone. Its stated ambition is to build
  a "factory for rapid scientific advancement." Both founders also serve on the board of the nonprofit ARC Prize Foundation.
  Ndea publishes no public API, developer portal, or SDK at this time; this profile tracks the company's public web surface
  and is added to the API Evangelist network as a Menlo Ventures portfolio lead.
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: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://ndea.com/media/images/ndea-og-image.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ndea/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- menlo-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-08'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- AGI
- Machine-Learning
- Program Synthesis
- Deep Learning
- Reasoning
- Research Lab
- Science
tags_raw:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- AGI
- Machine Learning
- Program Synthesis
- Deep Learning
- Reasoning
- Research Lab
- Science
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://ndea.com
- type: About
  url: https://ndea.com/about
- type: Jobs
  url: https://ndea.com/jobs
- type: Contact
  url: https://ndea.com/contact
- type: Twitter
  url: https://x.com/ndea
- type: YouTube
  url: https://www.youtube.com/@ndeainc
- type: Podcast
  url: https://open.spotify.com/show/67zmiUKRMLQApaMnxpsHKY
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ndea-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ndea-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/ndea-well-known.yml
- type: Careers
  url: https://ndea.com/jobs
- type: X
  url: https://x.com/ndea
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1
x-merged-from:
- ndea-com

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