Nominal

Nominal is the unified software suite for testing and operating advanced hardware — flight systems, satellites, robotics, energy, and other mission-critical engineering programs. Nominal Core is a collaborative workspace that captures, monitors, and analyzes multimodal test data (telemetry, logs, video, and simulation results) across datasets, runs, assets, channels, workbooks, and checklists, while Nominal Connect runs at the edge to read from and write to instruments in real time from Python. Nominal exposes an open Conjure-based REST API at api.gov.nominal.io/api, with first-party SDKs for Python, Rust (and the nom CLI), Go, and LabVIEW, plus a documentation MCP server for AI clients. Backed by Founders Fund, General Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Lux Capital.

Nominal publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Deep Tech, Test and Measurement, Hardware, and Aerospace.

Nominal’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, signup flow, CLI, authentication, and 16 more developer resources.

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33.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyDeep TechTest and MeasurementHardwareAerospaceTelemetryObservabilityIndustrial DataData PlatformSDKs

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 33.7/100 · thin

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 5.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 4.8 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 9.3 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15

MCP Server 12 / 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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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APIs 1

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

Nominal Core API

The Nominal Core REST API (Conjure-generated) for test data storage, ingest, streaming, compute, and asset/run/checklist management.

MCP Servers 1

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

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

Design & Contract 3

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

Conventions

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 4

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

Packages

SDKs

CLI

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

Compliance

Authentication

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

ChangeLog

ChangeLog

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: nominal
name: Nominal
description: Nominal is the unified software suite for testing and operating advanced hardware — flight systems, satellites,
  robotics, energy, and other mission-critical engineering programs. Nominal Core is a collaborative workspace that captures,
  monitors, and analyzes multimodal test data (telemetry, logs, video, and simulation results) across datasets, runs, assets,
  channels, workbooks, and checklists, while Nominal Connect runs at the edge to read from and write to instruments in real
  time from Python. Nominal exposes an open Conjure-based REST API at api.gov.nominal.io/api, with first-party SDKs for Python,
  Rust (and the nom CLI), Go, and LabVIEW, plus a documentation MCP server for AI clients. Backed by Founders Fund, General
  Catalyst, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and Lux Capital.
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://nominal.io/favicon.ico
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/nominal/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- founders-fund
- general-catalyst
- lightspeed-venture-partners
- lux-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v1
tags:
- Company
- Deep Tech
- Test and Measurement
- Hardware
- Aerospace
- Telemetry
- Observability
- Industrial Data
- Data Platform
- SDKs
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Nominal Core API
  description: The Nominal Core REST API (Conjure-generated) for test data storage, ingest, streaming, compute, and asset/run/checklist
    management.
  humanURL: https://docs.nominal.io/api-reference
  baseURL: https://api.gov.nominal.io/api
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.nominal.io/api-reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.nominal.io/python/quickstart
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.nominal.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.nominal.io/home
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.nominal.io/home
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.nominal.io/api-reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.nominal.io/python/quickstart
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/nominal-io
- type: Blog
  url: https://nominal.io/blog
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.gov.nominal.io
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.nominal.io
  name: Nominal Status
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.nominal.io
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.nominal.io
  name: SOC 2 Type II, CMMC, NIST 800-171
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/nominal-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/nominal-llms.txt
- type: Packages
  url: packages/nominal-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/nominal-packages.yml
- type: CLI
  url: cli/nominal-cli.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/nominal-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/nominal-conventions.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/nominal-well-known.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/nominal-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/nominal-lifecycle.yml
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/nominal-changelog.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/nominal-domain-security.yml