Pyka

Pyka is an Alameda, California company that designs and manufactures large, dual-use heavy-lift autonomous electric aircraft for commercial and defense operations. Its flagship products are the Pelican 2 autonomous crop-protection aircraft for aerial application and the DropShip long-range heavy-lift cargo UAS. Pyka builds a fully integrated, vertically owned autonomy stack — an Autonomy Engine (real-time OS, sensor fusion, flight control, and path planning), a Mission Control operator suite (simulation, communications, and operator interface), and custom aerospace-grade hardware. The company is backed by DCVC and Obvious Ventures. Pyka does not currently publish a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; this profile captures its public web and domain-security footprint. Surfaced via VC portfolio enrichment.

Pyka is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Autonomous Aircraft, Drones, Aerospace, and Agriculture.

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7.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

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Company Autonomous Aircraft Drones Aerospace Agriculture Logistics Defense Robotics Electric Aviation

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 7.1/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 2.1 / 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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Security Posture 1

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

Pyka Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Source (apis.yml)

aid: pyka
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: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/pyka.png
name: Pyka
description: Pyka is an Alameda, California company that designs and manufactures large, dual-use heavy-lift autonomous electric
  aircraft for commercial and defense operations. Its flagship products are the Pelican 2 autonomous crop-protection aircraft
  for aerial application and the DropShip long-range heavy-lift cargo UAS. Pyka builds a fully integrated, vertically owned
  autonomy stack — an Autonomy Engine (real-time OS, sensor fusion, flight control, and path planning), a Mission Control
  operator suite (simulation, communications, and operator interface), and custom aerospace-grade hardware. The company is
  backed by DCVC and Obvious Ventures. Pyka does not currently publish a public developer API, SDK, or developer portal; this
  profile captures its public web and domain-security footprint. Surfaced via VC portfolio enrichment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pyka/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcvc
- obvious-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-20'
tags:
- Company
- Autonomous Aircraft
- Drones
- Aerospace
- Agriculture
- Logistics
- Defense
- Robotics
- Electric Aviation
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/pyka-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://flypyka.com
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://flypyka.com/privacy-policy
- type: About
  url: https://flypyka.com/about-us
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-20'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

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