Shepherd

Shepherd is a technology-driven commercial insurance provider offering coverage for the builders and operators shaping the physical world. It underwrites Primary Casualty, Excess Casualty, and Builder's Risk lines for the construction and renewable-energy sectors, using data and an in-house AI underwriting engine (Nova) to deliver faster indications and modernized risk assessment. Shepherd sells through insurance brokers rather than exposing a public developer platform; it has issued 1,500+ policies across $400B+ in insured volume. This API Evangelist profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Costanoa Ventures and enriched by the pipeline; no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable specification was found.

Shepherd is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Insurtech, Insurance, Construction, and Commercial Insurance.

Shepherd’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 3 more developer resources.

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8.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs
CompanyInsurtechInsuranceConstructionCommercial InsuranceUnderwritingRenewable Energy

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 8.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 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.

Shepherd Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · 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

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog
 About
About

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: shepherd
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  onboarding: unknown
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  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shepherd.png
name: Shepherd
description: Shepherd is a technology-driven commercial insurance provider offering coverage for the builders and operators
  shaping the physical world. It underwrites Primary Casualty, Excess Casualty, and Builder's Risk lines for the construction
  and renewable-energy sectors, using data and an in-house AI underwriting engine (Nova) to deliver faster indications and
  modernized risk assessment. Shepherd sells through insurance brokers rather than exposing a public developer platform; it
  has issued 1,500+ policies across $400B+ in insured volume. This API Evangelist profile was surfaced as a portfolio company
  of Costanoa Ventures and enriched by the pipeline; no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable specification was
  found.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shepherd/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- costanoa-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Insurtech
- Insurance
- Construction
- Commercial Insurance
- Underwriting
- Renewable Energy
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 2
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common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shepherd-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://shepherdinsurance.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://shepherdinsurance.com/blog
- type: About
  url: https://shepherdinsurance.com/about
- type: Support
  url: https://shepherdinsurance.com/contact