ShiftSouth

ShiftSouth (Pty) Ltd operates SweepSouth, South Africa's first on-demand home services marketplace, launched in 2014. The platform connects roughly 250,000 customers with about 6,500 vetted home-services professionals ("SweepStars") across Cape Town, Johannesburg, Sandton, Centurion, Pretoria, Durban, Umhlanga, Stellenbosch, Paarl and other South African cities. Services span on-demand and express indoor cleaning, office and Airbnb turnover cleaning, laundry and ironing, elder care, Mom's Helper and childcare, dog walking, gardening and pool maintenance, plus full-time placements of housekeepers, nannies and carers and a MyHome Hub subscription for managing private domestic workers. Professionals are background-checked, reference-verified and insured. SweepSouth is a 500 Global portfolio company and has won the Forbes Africa Women Innovation Award (2020) and the World Economic Forum Breakthrough Female Innovators Award (2017). It is a consumer marketplace with mobile apps for iOS and Android and does not publish a public developer API surface.

ShiftSouth is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Home Services, Marketplace, On-Demand, and Cleaning.

ShiftSouth’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 4 more developer resources.

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12.3/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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CompanyHome ServicesMarketplaceOn-DemandCleaningSouth AfricaConsumerGig Economy

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

Composite quality — 12.3/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20

Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 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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Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: shiftsouth
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  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
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name: ShiftSouth
description: ShiftSouth (Pty) Ltd operates SweepSouth, South Africa's first on-demand home services marketplace, launched
  in 2014. The platform connects roughly 250,000 customers with about 6,500 vetted home-services professionals ("SweepStars")
  across Cape Town, Johannesburg, Sandton, Centurion, Pretoria, Durban, Umhlanga, Stellenbosch, Paarl and other South African
  cities. Services span on-demand and express indoor cleaning, office and Airbnb turnover cleaning, laundry and ironing, elder
  care, Mom's Helper and childcare, dog walking, gardening and pool maintenance, plus full-time placements of housekeepers,
  nannies and carers and a MyHome Hub subscription for managing private domestic workers. Professionals are background-checked,
  reference-verified and insured. SweepSouth is a 500 Global portfolio company and has won the Forbes Africa Women Innovation
  Award (2020) and the World Economic Forum Breakthrough Female Innovators Award (2017). It is a consumer marketplace with
  mobile apps for iOS and Android and does not publish a public developer API surface.
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x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Home Services
- Marketplace
- On-Demand
- Cleaning
- South Africa
- Consumer
- Gig Economy
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://sweepsouth.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://sweepsouth.com/blog/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.sweepsouth.com/hc/en-us
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://sweepsouth.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://sweepsouth.com/privacy/
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shiftsouth-domain-security.yml
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  date: '2026-07-21'
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