# ShiftSouth

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/shiftsouth/  
**Website:** https://sweepsouth.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.6 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.6).

| 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 | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## 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)

- **Shiftsouth Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Home Services, Marketplace, On-Demand, Cleaning, South Africa, Consumer, Gig Economy

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