# Roofline

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/roofline/  
**Website:** https://www.roofline.ai/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Roofline (RooflineAI GmbH, Köln, Germany) is a 2024 RWTH Aachen University spin-off building a retargetable AI compiler stack for edge deployment. Its three products are an SDK that compiles models ahead of time from any framework — the product page shows a single Python call, attic.compile(model, (input,)) — a lightweight C runtime with Python bindings that executes the compiled model and orchestrates heterogeneous SoCs, and a Performance Dashboard fed by a roofbench command-line tool running nightly benchmarks across hundreds of models for latency, throughput and memory footprint. The stack is built on open-source MLIR and IREE with proprietary hardware-specific optimization on top, and targets NPUs, MCUs and heterogeneous SoCs with quantization (INT8, blocked, symmetric, asymmetric, dynamic), dynamic shapes for on-device LLMs and mixture-of-experts support. Published work includes NXP eIQ Neutron NPU LLM enablement, Vulkan 1.3 and Arm SVE support in IREE, and day-0 support for Liquid AI LFM2. Roofline is a strategic partner of the Edge AI Foundation and raised a seed round from Serena and First Momentum Ventures. It sells compiler licenses to hardware vendors and embedded software teams: there is no developer program, no public API, no documentation host and no registry-published package. Every product page ends at a Contact Sales form, and the only machine-readable document Roofline publishes anywhere is an llms.txt on its marketing site.

## Kin Score — 12.2 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-09-08 under rubric 0.20.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Roofline Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Roofline Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Ai Data, Edge AI, AI Compiler, MLIR, IREE, Machine-Learning, Model Deployment, Embedded, NPU, Quantization, On-Device LLM, Developer Tools, Germany

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/roofline/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.