Recursive

Recursive (Recursive Superintelligence) is an AI research company founded in 2025 and backed by Earlybird, building recursive self-improving systems designed to automate knowledge discovery and accelerate scientific progress, beginning with AI research itself. Its team of researchers and entrepreneurs previously worked at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Brain, Meta, Salesforce and Uber, and works on open-ended algorithms, AI-generating algorithms and self-improving systems. The company is based in San Francisco with an additional presence in London. Recursive currently publishes no public API, developer documentation, SDK, or other machine-readable developer surface; this profile captures its identity as a lead in the API Evangelist network.

Recursive is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, AI Research, Machine Learning, and Superintelligence.

6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · 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 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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
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Security Posture 1

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

Recursive Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

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aid: recursive
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name: Recursive
description: Recursive (Recursive Superintelligence) is an AI research company founded in 2025 and backed by Earlybird, building
  recursive self-improving systems designed to automate knowledge discovery and accelerate scientific progress, beginning
  with AI research itself. Its team of researchers and entrepreneurs previously worked at OpenAI, DeepMind, Google Brain,
  Meta, Salesforce and Uber, and works on open-ended algorithms, AI-generating algorithms and self-improving systems. The
  company is based in San Francisco with an additional presence in London. Recursive currently publishes no public API, developer
  documentation, SDK, or other machine-readable developer surface; this profile captures its identity as a lead in the API
  Evangelist network.
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