# Poncho

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/poncho/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Poncho was a consumer weather service founded in 2013 in New York City by Kuan Huang and Paul Murphy that delivered a personalized, personality-driven daily forecast through the messaging layer — Facebook Messenger, SMS, email, and Amazon Alexa — rather than a traditional weather app. Backed by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Comcast Ventures, and Lerer Hippeau, the company was acquired by Dirty Lemon and is no longer independently operating. It never published a public developer API, OpenAPI definition, SDKs, or developer portal, so this profile carries identity metadata only.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Weather, Chatbots, Messaging, Conversational, Consumer

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/poncho/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.