Red Beacon

Redbeacon was a consumer home-services marketplace that connected homeowners with local service professionals — for home repair, cleaning, landscaping, handyman and similar jobs — letting people describe a job and receive quotes from vetted local pros. The company was an early venture-backed startup (with Mayfield among its investors) and was acquired by The Home Depot in 2012. The standalone Redbeacon consumer service was subsequently wound down. As of this enrichment pass the redbeacon.com domain still resolves (Cloudflare DNS, Google Workspace email) but serves no live website (origin returns HTTP 525 / 400) and publishes no developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API surface. This profile is retained as a historical/portfolio-graph node.

Red Beacon is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Home Services, Marketplace, Local Services, and Consumer.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyHome ServicesMarketplaceLocal ServicesConsumerAcquiredDefunct

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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.

Red Beacon Domain Security

TLSv1.3

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: red-beacon
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/red-beacon.png
name: Red Beacon
description: Redbeacon was a consumer home-services marketplace that connected homeowners with local service professionals
  — for home repair, cleaning, landscaping, handyman and similar jobs — letting people describe a job and receive quotes from
  vetted local pros. The company was an early venture-backed startup (with Mayfield among its investors) and was acquired
  by The Home Depot in 2012. The standalone Redbeacon consumer service was subsequently wound down. As of this enrichment
  pass the redbeacon.com domain still resolves (Cloudflare DNS, Google Workspace email) but serves no live website (origin
  returns HTTP 525 / 400) and publishes no developer portal, API documentation, or machine-readable API surface. This profile
  is retained as a historical/portfolio-graph node.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/red-beacon/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- Local Services
- Consumer
- Acquired
- Defunct
apis: []
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/red-beacon-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.redbeacon.com
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io