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Sight Machine

Sight Machine is an industrial AI company (founded 2011, San Francisco and Ann Arbor) whose Manufacturing Data Platform connects to plant OT and IT systems — historians, MES, ERP, PLCs, OPC UA servers and MQTT brokers — and builds a semantic model of the factory that AI agents reason over. The platform is delivered as a per-customer tenant at {tenant}.sightmachine.io, and exposes its production data through a versioned /v1 REST surface (Dashboard API plus datatab/selector data endpoints), a first-party Python SDK (smsdk), and a PostgreSQL-wire ODBC/JDBC connector. Edge ingestion runs through FactoryTX, which speaks OPC UA, MQTT, SQL and file/cloud-store protocols. Authentication is by API key and secret headers issued per tenant; there is no public sandbox, no published pricing, and the API reference itself is served from inside the authenticated tenant environment.

Sight Machine publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Manufacturing, Industrial IoT, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Agents.

The Sight Machine catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Sight Machine’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, changelog, authentication, and 20 more developer resources.

37.3/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 29/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
AccessSelf serve
2 APIs
ManufacturingIndustrial IoTAnalyticsArtificial IntelligenceAgentsDataOPC UAMQTTDigital Twin

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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Sight Machine Dashboard API

REST endpoint that returns the fully-resolved values behind a Sight Machine dashboard, panel by panel, so dashboard data can be consumed by external enterprise applications. Aut...

Sight Machine Platform Data API

The /v1 datatab and selector surface of the Sight Machine Manufacturing Data Platform — cycles, downtime, parts, lines, raw data, machine types, machine schemas and KPI selector...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sight Machine Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

AsyncAPI definitions for this provider's event-driven and streaming APIs.

Security Posture 3

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Sight Machine Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Sight Machine Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Sight Machine Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 3

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: sight-machine
name: Sight Machine
description: Sight Machine is an industrial AI company (founded 2011, San Francisco and Ann Arbor) whose Manufacturing Data
  Platform connects to plant OT and IT systems — historians, MES, ERP, PLCs, OPC UA servers and MQTT brokers — and builds
  a semantic model of the factory that AI agents reason over. The platform is delivered as a per-customer tenant at {tenant}.sightmachine.io,
  and exposes its production data through a versioned /v1 REST surface (Dashboard API plus datatab/selector data endpoints),
  a first-party Python SDK (smsdk), and a PostgreSQL-wire ODBC/JDBC connector. Edge ingestion runs through FactoryTX, which
  speaks OPC UA, MQTT, SQL and file/cloud-store protocols. Authentication is by API key and secret headers issued per tenant;
  there is no public sandbox, no published pricing, and the API reference itself is served from inside the authenticated tenant
  environment.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sight-machine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: unknown
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - pricing
  - repository-unlicensed
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-27'
modified: '2026-08-27'
tags:
- Manufacturing
- Industrial IoT
- Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agents
- Data
- OPC UA
- MQTT
- Digital Twin
tags_raw:
- Manufacturing
- Industrial IoT
- Analytics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agents
- Data
- OPC UA
- MQTT
- Digital Twin
- Operations
apis:
- aid: sight-machine-dashboard-api
  name: Sight Machine Dashboard API
  description: REST endpoint that returns the fully-resolved values behind a Sight Machine dashboard, panel by panel, so dashboard
    data can be consumed by external enterprise applications. Authenticated with a tenant API key id and secret passed as
    X-SM-API-Key-Id and X-SM-API-Secret headers. Widgets must be configured for background loading before their data is reachable
    through the API.
  humanURL: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/apis
  baseURL: https://{tenant}.sightmachine.io
  tags:
  - Dashboards
  - Analytics
  - Manufacturing
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/apis
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/sight-machine-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/sight-machine-problem-types.yml
- aid: sight-machine-platform-data-api
  name: Sight Machine Platform Data API
  description: The /v1 datatab and selector surface of the Sight Machine Manufacturing Data Platform — cycles, downtime, parts,
    lines, raw data, machine types, machine schemas and KPI selectors. This is the surface the first-party Python SDK (smsdk)
    calls. It is served from the customer tenant host and requires an API key id and secret, or a session established by basic
    login.
  humanURL: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/sdk
  baseURL: https://{tenant}.sightmachine.io
  tags:
  - Manufacturing
  - Analytics
  - Data
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/sdk
  - type: SourceCode
    url: https://github.com/sightmachine/sightmachine-sdk
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/sight-machine-data-model.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sight-machine-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sightmachine.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/overview
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/apis
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.sightmachine.com/docs/overview
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/sightmachine
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.sightmachine.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.sightmachine.com/software-and-services-agreement
- type: Security
  url: https://www.sightmachine.com/security
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://linkedin.com/company/sight-machine
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/sight-machine-changelog.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/sight-machine-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/sight-machine-packages.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sight-machine-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/sight-machine-security.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sight-machine-llms.txt
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/sight-machine-authentication.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/sight-machine-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/sight-machine-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/sight-machine-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/sight-machine-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/sight-machine-data-model.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sight-machine-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sight-machine-rate-limits.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/sight-machine-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-27'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 18
  pass: local-v1

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