NimaSensor

NIMA (originally 6SensorLabs, founded by MIT alumni Shireen Yates and Scott Sundvor) makes a portable, consumer-use gluten detection sensor for people living with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. A pea-sized food sample is loaded into a single-use capsule, inserted into the handheld NIMA Sensor, and returns a clear result in about three minutes, detecting gluten down to 10 ppm. The product relaunched in 2025-2026 with investment from RA Capital Management, pairing a next-generation sensor with newly engineered test capsules and the NIMA Now app. NIMA is a consumer hardware and e-commerce company (storefront hosted on Shopify), not a developer-API provider - it exposes no first-party public developer API. It is tracked in the API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Uncork Capital.

NimaSensor is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Health, Consumer Hardware, Food Safety, and Gluten.

NimaSensor’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, authentication, and 8 more developer resources.

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20.3/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 9/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

AccessSelf serve

0 APIs

Company Health Consumer Hardware Food SafetyGlutenCeliacE-Commerce IoT

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 20.3/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.2 / 17

Access Clarity 4.7 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 5.8 / 9

Regulatory Posture 6.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 9/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 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

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Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Nimasensor Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

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

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nimasensor
name: NimaSensor
description: NIMA (originally 6SensorLabs, founded by MIT alumni Shireen Yates and Scott Sundvor) makes a portable, consumer-use
  gluten detection sensor for people living with celiac disease and gluten sensitivity. A pea-sized food sample is loaded
  into a single-use capsule, inserted into the handheld NIMA Sensor, and returns a clear result in about three minutes, detecting
  gluten down to 10 ppm. The product relaunched in 2025-2026 with investment from RA Capital Management, pairing a next-generation
  sensor with newly engineered test capsules and the NIMA Now app. NIMA is a consumer hardware and e-commerce company (storefront
  hosted on Shopify), not a developer-API provider - it exposes no first-party public developer API. It is tracked in the
  API Evangelist network as a portfolio company of Uncork Capital.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nimasensor/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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
image: https://nimanow.com/cdn/shop/files/BMC00138-Edit-Edit_6c2e82b0-d6ef-401f-87c0-d8e28987afae.jpg
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Health
- Consumer Hardware
- Food Safety
- Gluten
- Celiac
- E-Commerce
- IoT
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nimasensor-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://nimanow.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://nimanow.com/blogs/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://nimanow.com/pages/faqs
- type: Login
  url: https://nimanow.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://nimanow.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://nimanow.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nimasensor-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nimasensor-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nimasensor-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/nimasensor-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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