Second Measure

Bloomberg Second Measure provides alternative data analytics for investors, turning billions of anonymized U.S. consumer card-transaction purchases into daily insights on the performance of thousands of public and private companies and brands. It is a Bloomberg product delivered primarily through the Bloomberg Terminal (ALTD and ECAN commands) and via aggregated and transaction-level data feeds, with 2-, 3-, and 7-day delivery lags that support intra-quarter earnings forecasting and investment monitoring. Second Measure was founded as a Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio company and acquired by Bloomberg in 2020. As of this enrichment pass the company exposes no public developer API, developer portal, or machine-readable API specification; access is gated through Bloomberg data products rather than a self-serve web API.

Second Measure is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Cloud, Alternative Data, Analytics, and Consumer Insights.

Second Measure’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 5 more developer resources.

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11.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 4/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 11.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.8 / 10

Agent readiness — 4/100 · 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 4 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Second Measure
description: Bloomberg Second Measure provides alternative data analytics for investors, turning billions of anonymized U.S.
  consumer card-transaction purchases into daily insights on the performance of thousands of public and private companies
  and brands. It is a Bloomberg product delivered primarily through the Bloomberg Terminal (ALTD and ECAN commands) and via
  aggregated and transaction-level data feeds, with 2-, 3-, and 7-day delivery lags that support intra-quarter earnings forecasting
  and investment monitoring. Second Measure was founded as a Bessemer Venture Partners portfolio company and acquired by Bloomberg
  in 2020. As of this enrichment pass the company exposes no public developer API, developer portal, or machine-readable API
  specification; access is gated through Bloomberg data products rather than a self-serve web API.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/second-measure/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Cloud
- Alternative Data
- Analytics
- Consumer Insights
- Financial Data
- Transaction Data
- Bloomberg
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Blog
  url: https://secondmeasure.com/datapoints/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://secondmeasure.com/privacy-policy/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://secondmeasure.com/tos/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/second-measure-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/second-measure-well-known.yml
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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