Powder

Powder was a Paris-based gaming company, founded in 2018 and backed by a $14M Series A led by Serena with General Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven, Bpifrance Digital Venture and Secocha Ventures. It built AI-powered clipping software for gamers and content creators: a low-resource Windows screen recorder plus on-device machine learning that detected highlight moments in gameplay recordings and long Twitch, YouTube and Kick streams and turned them into short vertical clips, AutoEdits and automontages, with per-title models for 40-plus games including Fortnite, Valorant, Counter-Strike 2 and League of Legends, and NPU-accelerated local inference on AMD XDNA hardware. It was distributed as an end-user desktop app through Steam, the Microsoft Store and Razer Cortex, on a free tier with a $9.99/month Powder Pro subscription. Powder published no public API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract. The company has since wound down: its own apex domain now redirects every path to a first-party notice stating the app is no longer updated or maintained and that all subscriptions have been cancelled.

Powder is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Gaming, Video, Artificial Intelligence, and Content Creation.

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0.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Gaming Video Artificial Intelligence Content Creation Streaming Media Desktop Application Discontinued Defunct

Kin Score

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 0.0/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 0.0 / 9

Regulatory Posture 1.9 / 15

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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
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)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes

13 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

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

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points
Access Clarity scores 0.0 — up to +20.0 composite points

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Security Posture 1

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

Powder Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: powder
name: Powder
description: 'Powder was a Paris-based gaming company, founded in 2018 and backed by a $14M Series A led by Serena with General
  Catalyst, Slow Ventures, Alven, Bpifrance Digital Venture and Secocha Ventures. It built AI-powered clipping software for
  gamers and content creators: a low-resource Windows screen recorder plus on-device machine learning that detected highlight
  moments in gameplay recordings and long Twitch, YouTube and Kick streams and turned them into short vertical clips, AutoEdits
  and automontages, with per-title models for 40-plus games including Fortnite, Valorant, Counter-Strike 2 and League of Legends,
  and NPU-accelerated local inference on AMD XDNA hardware. It was distributed as an end-user desktop app through Steam, the
  Microsoft Store and Razer Cortex, on a free tier with a $9.99/month Powder Pro subscription. Powder published no public
  API, developer portal, SDK or machine-readable contract. The company has since wound down: its own apex domain now redirects
  every path to a first-party notice stating the app is no longer updated or maintained and that all subscriptions have been
  cancelled.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/powder/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://www.powder.gg/_next/static/media/og.fecfbdd8.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: serena-portfolio
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-source: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p8TjN7bCRdOnhrD5DjG02pmoGi4ylsGKmdCS-YV4jrg/edit
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-17'
modified: '2026-08-17'
tags:
- Company
- Gaming
- Video
- Artificial Intelligence
- Content Creation
- Streaming
- Media
- Desktop Application
- Discontinued
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/powder-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.powder.gg/
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Product lifecycle and end-of-life notice
  url: lifecycle/powder-lifecycle.yml
- type: TermsOfService
  name: Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy
  url: https://powderapp.notion.site/POWDER-T-C-fb5f1576921f4ec9a7fb9d243786ace3
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  name: Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy (combined document)
  url: https://powderapp.notion.site/POWDER-T-C-fb5f1576921f4ec9a7fb9d243786ace3
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-17'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: Powder shipped only a consumer Windows desktop clipping app with no public API, portal or SDK, and the company has
    since wound down — its apex host powder.gg now 301-redirects every path, including /openapi.json and every /.well-known/
    path, to a first-party notice saying the app is no longer updated or maintained.
  evidence:
  - url: https://powder.gg/openapi.json
    status: 301
  - url: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1p8TjN7bCRdOnhrD5DjG02pmoGi4ylsGKmdCS-YV4jrg/export?format=txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.powder.gg/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.powder.gg/llms.txt
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-17'

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