Paro

Paro is an AI-powered professional services marketplace that connects businesses and accounting firms with vetted, on-demand finance and accounting experts. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Paro uses proprietary AI matching to pair clients with the top 2% of finance professionals across 60+ industries and 250+ skill sets — spanning bookkeeping, fractional CFO and controller services, financial planning and analysis, tax and compliance, and full-time recruiting. For accounting firms it provides staff augmentation, busy-season support, and service-expansion consulting. Paro operates a talent platform (app.paro.io) but does not publish a public developer API; this profile captures its identity, content, and public web surface for the API Evangelist network.

Paro is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Finance, Accounting, Marketplace, and Talent.

Paro’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 9 more developer resources.

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14.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyFinanceAccountingMarketplaceTalentFractional CFOBookkeepingProfessional ServicesAI

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 14.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 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
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Security Posture 1

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

Paro Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp
SignUp
 Login
Login

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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 4

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Resources
Resources

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: paro
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/paro.png
name: Paro
description: Paro is an AI-powered professional services marketplace that connects businesses and accounting firms with vetted,
  on-demand finance and accounting experts. Founded in 2015 and headquartered in Chicago, Paro uses proprietary AI matching
  to pair clients with the top 2% of finance professionals across 60+ industries and 250+ skill sets — spanning bookkeeping,
  fractional CFO and controller services, financial planning and analysis, tax and compliance, and full-time recruiting. For
  accounting firms it provides staff augmentation, busy-season support, and service-expansion consulting. Paro operates a
  talent platform (app.paro.io) but does not publish a public developer API; this profile captures its identity, content,
  and public web surface for the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/paro/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
- sierra-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Finance
- Accounting
- Marketplace
- Talent
- Fractional CFO
- Bookkeeping
- Professional Services
- AI
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/paro-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://paro.ai
- type: About
  url: https://paro.ai/about/
- type: Blog
  url: https://paro.ai/blog/
- type: Resources
  url: https://paro.ai/resources/
- type: Support
  url: https://paro.ai/how-paro-works/
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.paro.io/registration/aigp-onboarding
- type: Login
  url: https://app.paro.io/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://paro.ai/platform-terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://paro.ai/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/paro-ai
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/paro-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1