Parade

Parade is an AI-powered capacity-management and carrier-access platform for freight brokers. It layers on top of a broker's existing Transportation Management System (TMS) and load boards to surface truck availability, syndicate loads to third-party loadboards and carriers, and digitally transact quotes and bookings. Parade's syndication APIs let integration partners search available loads, submit carrier quotes, book loads (Book Now), post available trucks, check carrier onboarding status, and receive digital-conversion and carrier-sync webhooks. Its CoDriver AI agent handles inbound carrier calls and emails. Parade is backed by Menlo Ventures and serves freight brokerages that have collectively transacted tens of billions of dollars in freight.

Parade publishes 8 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Available Trucks API, Bookings API, Carrier Onboarding Status API, and 5 more. Tagged areas include Company, Freight, Logistics, Trucking, and Supply Chain.

The Parade catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Parade’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, engineering blog, signup flow, authentication, sandbox, and 17 more developer resources.

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40.1/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 31/100 agent ready Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 39/100 slowing saas Full breakdown ↓
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3 published contracts 2 Agent Skills

Company Freight Logistics Trucking Supply ChainCapacity ManagementFreight Brokerage Transportation Load Board Artificial Intelligence

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Freight Capacity Management

BC-2400

Available TrucksBookings

POST /ls/syndication/post-truck POST /ls/syndication/book GET /ls/syndication/book/{reservation_id} POST /ls/syndication/drop

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 40.1/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.1 / 15

Access Clarity 3.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.9 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 2.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 31/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 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

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% 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):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
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)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Rate-Limit Signaling +7 pts — OpenAPI responses document X-RateLimit-* / RateLimit headers (verified), else a rate_limits artifact or RateLimits link (documented)
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

5 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 48.8 — up to +12.8 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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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.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 8

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

Parade Available Trucks API

The Available Trucks API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for available trucks.

Parade Bookings API

The Bookings API from Parade — 3 operation(s) for bookings.

Parade Carrier Onboarding Status API

The Carrier Onboarding Status API from Parade — 2 operation(s) for carrier onboarding status.

Parade Carrier Synchronization API

The Carrier Synchronization API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for carrier synchronization.

Parade Digital Conversion API

The Digital Conversion API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for digital conversion.

Parade Load Synchronization API

The Load Synchronization API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for load synchronization.

Parade Quotes API

The Quotes API from Parade — 3 operation(s) for quotes.

Parade Search API

The Search API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for search.

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Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Parade Transactions Available Trucks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Bookings API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Carrier Onboarding Status API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Carrier Synchronization API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Digital Conversion API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Load Synchronization API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Quotes API

OPEN COLLECTION

Parade Transactions Available Trucks Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Post available capacity and check carrier onboarding

AGENT SKILL

Quote and book a freight load

AGENT SKILL

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Parade API Rules

67 rules · 59 errors 5 warnings 3 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 3

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Parade Digital Transactions Overlay

2 actions · update · parade-digital-transactions-openapi.yaml

DERIVED

Parade Load Sync Overlay

2 actions · update · parade-load-sync-openapi.yaml

DERIVED

Parade Partner Webhooks Overlay

1 action · update · parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Parade Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Parade Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Parade Agentic Access

13 operations · 7 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

SignUp

SignUp

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Lifecycle

DataModel

Conformance

Webhooks

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

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 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: parade
name: Parade
description: Parade is an AI-powered capacity-management and carrier-access platform for freight brokers. It layers on top
  of a broker's existing Transportation Management System (TMS) and load boards to surface truck availability, syndicate loads
  to third-party loadboards and carriers, and digitally transact quotes and bookings. Parade's syndication APIs let integration
  partners search available loads, submit carrier quotes, book loads (Book Now), post available trucks, check carrier onboarding
  status, and receive digital-conversion and carrier-sync webhooks. Its CoDriver AI agent handles inbound carrier calls and
  emails. Parade is backed by Menlo Ventures and serves freight brokerages that have collectively transacted tens of billions
  of dollars in freight.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/parade/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.parade.ai/favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- menlo-ventures
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-public-openapi
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
x-docs-platform: swagger-ui
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-04
x-docs-hosting: github-pages
tags:
- Company
- Freight
- Logistics
- Trucking
- Supply Chain
- Capacity Management
- Freight Brokerage
- Transportation
- Load Board
- Artificial Intelligence
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- aid: parade:parade-available-trucks-api
  name: Parade Available Trucks API
  description: The Available Trucks API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for available trucks.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Available Trucks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-available-trucks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-bookings-api
  name: Parade Bookings API
  description: The Bookings API from Parade — 3 operation(s) for bookings.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Booking
  tags_raw:
  - Bookings
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-bookings-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-carrier-onboarding-status-api
  name: Parade Carrier Onboarding Status API
  description: The Carrier Onboarding Status API from Parade — 2 operation(s) for carrier onboarding status.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Carrier Onboarding Status
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-carrier-onboarding-status-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-carrier-synchronization-api
  name: Parade Carrier Synchronization API
  description: The Carrier Synchronization API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for carrier synchronization.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Carrier Synchronization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-carrier-synchronization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-digital-conversion-api
  name: Parade Digital Conversion API
  description: The Digital Conversion API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for digital conversion.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Digital Conversion
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-digital-conversion-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-load-synchronization-api
  name: Parade Load Synchronization API
  description: The Load Synchronization API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for load synchronization.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Load Synchronization
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-load-synchronization-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-quotes-api
  name: Parade Quotes API
  description: The Quotes API from Parade — 3 operation(s) for quotes.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Quotes
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-quotes-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- aid: parade:parade-search-api
  name: Parade Search API
  description: The Search API from Parade — 1 operation(s) for search.
  humanURL: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  baseURL: https://api.capacity.parade.ai
  tags:
  - Search
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/parade-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
  - type: Webhooks
    url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/parade-capability-edges.yml
  name: Parade Business Capability Map
- type: Website
  url: https://parade.ai
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.syndication.parade.ai/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.parade.ai/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.parade.ai
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.iubenda.com/terms-and-conditions/86638042
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.parade.ai/privacy-policy
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/parade-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/parade-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/parade-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/parade-lifecycle.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/parade-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/parade-conformance.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/parade-sandbox.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: openapi/_original/parade-partner-webhooks-openapi.yaml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/parade-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/parade-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/parade-digital-transactions-overlay.yaml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/parade-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/parade-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1

Parade API — frequently asked questions

Does Parade have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 8 APIs from Parade, including Parade Available Trucks API, Parade Bookings API and Parade Carrier Onboarding Status API, and 5 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Parade API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 8 OpenAPI specifications for Parade, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Parade API?

Parade uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Parade Authentication.

Is the Parade API ready for AI agents?

Parade has a Kin Score of 40.1 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.0 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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