Roost

Roost is a Sunnyvale, California home-telematics company that helps property and casualty insurance carriers modernize homeowners and commercial insurance with smart, in-home sensors and monitoring. Its Protection360 commercial loss-prevention service and Security360 white-label home-security bundle detect water leaks, extreme temperatures, and smoke-alarm events, delivering real-time alerts and risk data to insurers, property owners, and third parties. Roost partners with dozens of top P&C carriers, but does not publish a public developer API or developer portal; integrations are arranged directly with its engineering team.

Roost is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Fintech, Insurance, Insurtech, and Telematics.

Roost’s developer surface includes support, engineering blog, and 4 more developer resources.

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15.0/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyFintechInsuranceInsurtechTelematicsSmart HomeIoTProperty InsuranceLoss Prevention

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 15.0/100 · emerging
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 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.

Roost Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: roost
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/roost.png
name: Roost
description: Roost is a Sunnyvale, California home-telematics company that helps property and casualty insurance carriers
  modernize homeowners and commercial insurance with smart, in-home sensors and monitoring. Its Protection360 commercial loss-prevention
  service and Security360 white-label home-security bundle detect water leaks, extreme temperatures, and smoke-alarm events,
  delivering real-time alerts and risk data to insurers, property owners, and third parties. Roost partners with dozens of
  top P&C carriers, but does not publish a public developer API or developer portal; integrations are arranged directly with
  its engineering team.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/roost/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- dcm-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Fintech
- Insurance
- Insurtech
- Telematics
- Smart Home
- IoT
- Property Insurance
- Loss Prevention
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://getroost.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://support.getroost.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://getroost.com/press/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://getroost.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://getroost.com/privacy-statement/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/roost-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1