# Sampler

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sampler/  
**Website:** https://sampler.io  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Sampler (The Sampler App Inc., Toronto) was a digital product-sampling platform used by consumer packaged goods (CPG) and retail brands to run targeted sample-distribution campaigns, collect first-party consumer data and reviews, and measure the impact of sampling on purchase behavior. Founded in 2013, it acquired Abeo and AdMass in 2023 and served brands including Procter & Gamble, Unilever, L'Oreal, Nestle and PepsiCo. THE COMPANY IS DEFUNCT: it filed for bankruptcy on 2024-06-27 with CAD 12.9M in liabilities against roughly CAD 300K in assets, and ceased operations. As of 2026-08-12 the entire estate is decommissioned — sampler.io and www.sampler.io fail the TLS handshake outright, api.sampler.io retains stale DNS records whose hosts refuse all connections, and every documentation or developer subdomain is NXDOMAIN. Sampler never published a public developer API, developer portal, documentation host, OpenAPI, or machine discovery surface; the api.sampler.io/v1/ endpoints visible in archived crawls were the private backend of its consumer claim widget and admin console, not a documented developer product.

## Kin Score — 5.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## 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 |

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Sampler Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

Company, Marketing, Product Sampling, Consumer Packaged Goods, Advertising, Software-as-a-Service, Defunct, Retail

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