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roadster

Roadster was a Palo Alto digital automotive retail commerce platform (its Express Storefront let dealers sell and finance vehicles fully online) that was acquired by CDK Global in 2021 and folded into CDK's automotive digital-retailing suite. The roadster.com domain now serves CDK Global's Automotive Digital Retailing product and no longer exposes a standalone Roadster developer portal, API reference, or public API surface. Surfaced as a portfolio company of slow-ventures and profiled in the API Evangelist network; no public API artifacts are discoverable.

roadster is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Automotive, Digital Retail, Commerce, and E-Commerce.

roadster’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 3 more developer resources.

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3.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 3/6 light Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0
0 APIs
CompanyAutomotiveDigital RetailCommerceE-CommerceDealershipAcquired

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0
Composite quality — 3.9/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17
Access Clarity 0.0 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.1 / 9
Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 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
Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
The six quality facets above are damped to 85 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 15. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 85% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.
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Security Posture 1

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

Roadster Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

ParentCompany
ParentCompany

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: roadster
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:
  - url: https://roadster.com
    status: 301
    note: declared website redirects to https://www.cdkglobal.com/automotive-digital-retailing — a different registrable domain
      (roadster.com -> cdkglobal.com), possible rename or acquisition (probed 2026-09-03, roadmap#169)
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/roadster.png
name: roadster
description: Roadster was a Palo Alto digital automotive retail commerce platform (its Express Storefront let dealers sell
  and finance vehicles fully online) that was acquired by CDK Global in 2021 and folded into CDK's automotive digital-retailing
  suite. The roadster.com domain now serves CDK Global's Automotive Digital Retailing product and no longer exposes a standalone
  Roadster developer portal, API reference, or public API surface. Surfaced as a portfolio company of slow-ventures and profiled
  in the API Evangelist network; no public API artifacts are discoverable.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/roadster/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: Surfaced as a portfolio company of slow-ventures and profiled in the API Evangelist network; no public
  API artifacts are discoverable.
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- slow-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Automotive
- Digital Retail
- Commerce
- E-Commerce
- Dealership
- Acquired
x-acquired-by: cdk-global
x-status: acquired-no-public-api
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- url: https://www.cdkglobal.com/insights
  type: Blog
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/cdk-global/
  name: CDK Global
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: Roadster was a Palo Alto digital automotive retail commerce platform (its Express Storefront let dealers sell
    and finance vehicles fully online) that was acquired by CDK Global in 2021 and folded into CDK's automotive digital-retailing
    suit
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/roadster-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://roadster.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1

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