# sherpa

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/sherpa/  
**Website:** https://sherpahq.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

sherpa is an AI operating system for External Workforce Management (EWM) that runs an enterprise's contingent-labor program end to end with autonomous agents, replacing the work traditionally done by a VMS (Vendor Management System) and MSP (Managed Service Provider). Its agents cover every phase of an external engagement: autonomous intake and classification from Slack, email, Teams or voice; collaborative scope, role and budget drafting; autonomous sourcing with market-benchmarked rates and ranked candidates and suppliers; coordinated screening interviews scored against a weighted rubric; autonomous hiring and onboarding (documents, background and compliance checks, contracts, provisioning, hardware and badges); and active management and payment with a dedicated PM agent, live spend visibility and flexible payouts once outcomes are verified. One platform spans every worker type — contingent labor, freelancers / independent contractors (with a built-in Agent of Record), SOW / services engagements, and, coming soon, AI agents as a managed worker type — with rate intelligence, compliance management and analytics built in. sherpa launched out of stealth with a $2.2M pre-seed round and is backed by Seedcamp and Y Combinator.

## Kin Score — 11.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 11.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 61.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 10.5 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 2.6 (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 | yes |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

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

## Security (2)

- **Sherpa Domain Security** — TLSv1.3
- **Sherpa Vulnerability Disclosure** — security.txt · contact published

## Tags

Company, External Workforce Management, Vendor Management System, Managed Service Provider, AI Agents, Contingent Labor, Freelancer Management, Staffing, Procurement, HR Tech

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