# Shepherd

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shepherd/  
**Website:** https://shepherdinsurance.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 3.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 3.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Insurance**: 9.1 (matched via tags).

## 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)

- **Shepherd Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Insurtech, Insurance, Construction, Commercial Insurance, Underwriting, Renewable Energy

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