Propagate

Propagate (Propagate Brands) is an e-commerce accelerator and equity syndication platform founded by JD Jernigan and backed by 500 Global. It partners with early-stage direct-to-consumer brands selling on Shopify and Amazon — typically those under $1M in annual revenue and overlooked by larger aggregators — providing working capital plus growth marketing, branding, data collection, customer service, and supply-chain support to help them scale and reach acquisition-ready exits. It simultaneously lets individual investors take equity stakes in these growing private commerce brands to earn passive income. Propagate operates as a services-and-investment business rather than a software company and publishes no public developer API, SDK, or technical platform surface. As of August 2026 its website is also no longer reachable — propagatebrands.com and its www host resolve to Webflow's shared proxy but abort the TLS handshake, and archived captures show the site returning 403/404 since mid-2024 and a parked lander page by August 2025.

Propagate is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Direct-to-Consumer, Shopify, and Accelerator.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub
5.0/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
0 APIs
CompanyE-CommerceDirect-to-ConsumerShopifyAcceleratorInvestmentGrowth Marketing

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 5.0/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 5.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
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
Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. This rating is computed from github.com/api-evangelist/propagate: open an issue to ask a question, or submit a pull request to add artifacts. Want it done for you? Prioritized profiling — $2,500 →

Security Posture 1

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

Propagate Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: propagate
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/propagate.png
name: Propagate
description: Propagate (Propagate Brands) is an e-commerce accelerator and equity syndication platform founded by JD Jernigan
  and backed by 500 Global. It partners with early-stage direct-to-consumer brands selling on Shopify and Amazon — typically
  those under $1M in annual revenue and overlooked by larger aggregators — providing working capital plus growth marketing,
  branding, data collection, customer service, and supply-chain support to help them scale and reach acquisition-ready exits.
  It simultaneously lets individual investors take equity stakes in these growing private commerce brands to earn passive
  income. Propagate operates as a services-and-investment business rather than a software company and publishes no public
  developer API, SDK, or technical platform surface. As of August 2026 its website is also no longer reachable — propagatebrands.com
  and its www host resolve to Webflow's shared proxy but abort the TLS handshake, and archived captures show the site returning
  403/404 since mid-2024 and a parked lander page by August 2025.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/propagate/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Direct-to-Consumer
- Shopify
- Accelerator
- Investment
- Growth Marketing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/propagate-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://propagatebrands.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: defunct
  detail: propagatebrands.com and www.propagatebrands.com still resolve to Webflow's shared proxy but abort every TLS handshake
    with an internal error, so not one HTTP response came back — and the Wayback record shows the site 403/404ing since July
    2024 and serving a 545-byte parked lander by August 2025, with no api/app/docs/developers subdomain, GitHub org, or package-registry
    presence anywhere.
  evidence:
  - url: https://propagatebrands.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.propagatebrands.com/
    status: 0
  - url: http://propagatebrands.com/
    status: 301
  - url: https://propagatebrands.com/openapi.json
    status: 0
  - url: https://propagatebrands.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 0
  - url: http://web.archive.org/web/20250806030036/http://propagatebrands.com/
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-13'