Nexus One

NexusOne, by Nexus Cognitive, is a composable open data architecture that lays horizontally across an entire enterprise data estate — connecting on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and legacy systems through one universal identity, governance, and operational control plane. Built on 85+ deeply integrated open-source tools (Iceberg, Trino, Spark, Ranger, Keycloak, DataHub, Gravitino, Airflow, and more), it positions itself as "The Data Layer for AI," making every system operate as a single coherent, agent-callable system without data migration or vendor lock-in. Founded in 2022, headquartered in Atlanta, GA, and backed by Insight Partners.

Nexus One is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Data Infrastructure, Data Governance, Artificial Intelligence, and Data Platform.

Nexus One’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 16 more developer resources.

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17.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Front door AI 6/6 dominant Heartbeat 100/100 alive library Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Data Infrastructure Data Governance Artificial Intelligence Data Platform Control Plane Open Source Data Platform Integration

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 17.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 2.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.7 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 4.7 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 4/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 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

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.

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 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% 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
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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

12 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 15.8 — up to +16.8 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 19.0 — up to +16.2 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/nexus-one/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/nexus-one to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

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.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (documented)

MCP Servers 1

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

NexusOne MCP

NexusOne describes MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint exposure as part of its "Composable Intelligence" layer, so AI agents can discover and act on governed data products acr...

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 3

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

Nexus One Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Nexus One Vulnerability Disclosure

security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Nexus One Trust Center

SOC 2, ISO 27001, HITRUST

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

MCPServer

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Packages

Packages

SDKs

SDKs

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nexus-one
deliveryModel:
  model: library
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Library · distributed through package registries, no callable service
  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:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/nexus-one.png
name: Nexus One
description: NexusOne, by Nexus Cognitive, is a composable open data architecture that lays horizontally across an entire
  enterprise data estate — connecting on-prem, cloud, hybrid, and legacy systems through one universal identity, governance,
  and operational control plane. Built on 85+ deeply integrated open-source tools (Iceberg, Trino, Spark, Ranger, Keycloak,
  DataHub, Gravitino, Airflow, and more), it positions itself as "The Data Layer for AI," making every system operate as a
  single coherent, agent-callable system without data migration or vendor lock-in. Founded in 2022, headquartered in Atlanta,
  GA, and backed by Insight Partners.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nexus-one/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- insight-partners
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Data Infrastructure
- Data Governance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Platform
- Control Plane
- Open Source
- Data
- Platform
- Integration
tags_raw:
- Company
- Data Infrastructure
- Data Governance
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data Platform
- Control Plane
- Open Source
- Open-Source
- Data
- AI
- Platform
- Integration
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://nexus0ne.substack.com/feed
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nx1.io/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://github.com/nexuscognitive
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/nexuscognitive
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.nx1.io/blog
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nexus-one-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nexus-one-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/nexus-one-packages.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/nexus-one-mcp.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/nexus-one-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nexus-one-well-known.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/nexus-one-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/nexus-one-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nexus-one-domain-security.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/nexus-one-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/nexus-one-trust-center.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nexus-one-conformance.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v1

Nexus One API — frequently asked questions

Does Nexus One have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Nexus One: NexusOne describes MCP (Model Context Protocol) endpoint exposure as part of its "Composable Intelligence" layer, so AI agents can discover and act on governed data products across the estate. The MCP

Is the Nexus One API ready for AI agents?

Nexus One has a Kin Score of 17.4 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 3.5 (human-only), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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