Pointy

Pointy was an Irish retail-technology startup (pointy.com), founded by Mark Cummins and Charles Bibby and backed by Seedcamp, that helped independent brick-and-mortar retailers put their in-store inventory online by connecting a simple barcode-scanning device or point-of-sale integration to a searchable online product page. Google acquired Pointy in 2020 and has since fully folded the product into Google's own tooling: pointy.com now redirects to Google Business Profile support, and the former Pointy app is now Google's Local Inventory app, which syncs in-store products to Google Search and Maps via POS systems such as Clover, Square, and Lightspeed. Pointy no longer operates as an independent company and publishes no standalone public API, developer portal, or SDKs; this API Evangelist profile is retained as a portfolio-lead record and historical marker rather than an active API provider.

Pointy is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Retail Technology, Local Commerce, and Point-of-Sale.

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5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Retail Retail Technology Local Commerce Point-of-Sale Inventory Acquired

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 0.0 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

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

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aid: pointy
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  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:
  - url: https://pointy.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://support.google.com/business/answer/9934993?utm_campaign=landingpage — a different
      registrable domain (pointy.com -> google.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pointy.png
name: Pointy
description: 'Pointy was an Irish retail-technology startup (pointy.com), founded by Mark Cummins and Charles Bibby and backed
  by Seedcamp, that helped independent brick-and-mortar retailers put their in-store inventory online by connecting a simple
  barcode-scanning device or point-of-sale integration to a searchable online product page. Google acquired Pointy in 2020
  and has since fully folded the product into Google''s own tooling: pointy.com now redirects to Google Business Profile support,
  and the former Pointy app is now Google''s Local Inventory app, which syncs in-store products to Google Search and Maps
  via POS systems such as Clover, Square, and Lightspeed. Pointy no longer operates as an independent company and publishes
  no standalone public API, developer portal, or SDKs; this API Evangelist profile is retained as a portfolio-lead record
  and historical marker rather than an active API provider.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pointy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: google
x-acquired-year: 2020
x-backed-by:
- seedcamp
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Retail Technology
- Local Commerce
- Point-of-Sale
- Inventory
- Acquired
tags_raw:
- Company
- Retail
- Retail Technology
- Local Commerce
- Point of Sale
- Inventory
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://pointy.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Acquired by Google (2020) and fully absorbed into Google Local Inventory; pointy.com redirects to Google Business
    support, developer/api/docs subdomains do not resolve, no well-known or API surface. No API artifacts to create.

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