Next Big Idea Club

Next Big Idea Club is a nonfiction book subscription club and podcast that curates the most important new nonfiction, chosen by a selection committee of Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink. Members receive curated new nonfiction, an in-app library, courses, and author interviews across the web and native iOS/Android apps. The consumer experience is powered by a first-party WordPress REST API (the members/v1 namespace) secured with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect via the WP OAuth Server, with Stripe integration for subscription billing. This profile was seeded as a Bloomberg Beta portfolio lead and enriched from the provider's public /wp-json/ discovery and /.well-known/ OAuth surface.

Next Big Idea Club publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: members API. Tagged areas include Company, Books, Media, Subscription, and Nonfiction.

Next Big Idea Club’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, authentication, and 12 more developer resources.

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36.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyBooksMediaSubscriptionNonfictionPodcastEducationMembership

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 36.2/100 · thin

Contract Quality 10.7 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.2 / 10

Discoverability 7.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 8.3 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · 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 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

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APIs 1

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

MCP Servers 1

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

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Next Big Idea Club Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

ErrorCatalog

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: next-big-idea-club
name: Next Big Idea Club
description: Next Big Idea Club is a nonfiction book subscription club and podcast that curates the most important new nonfiction,
  chosen by a selection committee of Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, Susan Cain, and Daniel Pink. Members receive curated new
  nonfiction, an in-app library, courses, and author interviews across the web and native iOS/Android apps. The consumer experience
  is powered by a first-party WordPress REST API (the members/v1 namespace) secured with OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect via the
  WP OAuth Server, with Stripe integration for subscription billing. This profile was seeded as a Bloomberg Beta portfolio
  lead and enriched from the provider's public /wp-json/ discovery and /.well-known/ OAuth surface.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/next-big-idea-club/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- bloomberg-beta
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
image: https://nextbigideaclub.com/wp-content/plugins/helium/themes/helium/favicon.ico
tags:
- Company
- Books
- Media
- Subscription
- Nonfiction
- Podcast
- Education
- Membership
apis:
- aid: next-big-idea-club:next-big-idea-club-members-api
  name: Next Big Idea Club members API
  description: Membership, subscription, library and course operations.
  humanURL: https://nextbigideaclub.com/
  baseURL: https://nextbigideaclub.com/wp-json/members/v1
  tags:
  - Members
  tags_raw:
  - members
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/next-big-idea-club-members-api-openapi.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/next-big-idea-club-members-overlay.yaml
- type: Website
  url: https://nextbigideaclub.com/
- type: Login
  url: https://nextbigideaclub.com/login/
- type: Support
  url: https://nextbigideaclub.com/faqs/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://nextbigideaclub.com/terms-and-conditions/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nextbigideaclub.com/data-privacy/
- type: Blog
  url: https://nextbigideaclub.com/magazine/
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/next-big-idea-club-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/next-big-idea-club-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/next-big-idea-club-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/next-big-idea-club-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/next-big-idea-club-llms.txt
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/next-big-idea-club-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/next-big-idea-club-problem-types.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/next-big-idea-club-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1