Smarter Sorting

Smarter Sorting (which rebranded as SmarterX in 2023 and now operates as part of Syndigo) is an Austin, Texas product-intelligence and regulatory-classification company serving retailers, consumer-goods brands and the logistics industry. Its Smarter-1 platform takes a customer's product catalog — at minimum a UPC and a product name — and returns machine-generated regulatory classifications covering hazardous-waste handling (RCRA waste codes and state waste codes), transport of dangerous goods (DOT, IATA and IMDG hazard classes, UN numbers, packing groups and proper shipping names), NFPA 704 fire-diamond ratings, lithium-battery attributes and UN 38.3 documentation, so that a retailer can decide whether an item may be sold, shipped, donated, recycled, reclaimed or must be disposed of as regulated waste. The company publishes a public Customer Classification API (OpenAPI 3.1.0) alongside its Back of Store Solution (BOSS) platform, a developer portal, a staging environment and a public status page.

Smarter Sorting publishes 4 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Api(.) API, Assets(.) API, Docs(.*) API, and 1 more. Tagged areas include Company, Product Data, Regulatory Compliance, Hazardous Waste, and Retail.

The Smarter Sorting catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Smarter Sorting’s developer surface includes authentication, documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, and 19 more developer resources.

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46.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready Front door AI 5/6 prominent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0

2 published contracts

Company Product Data Regulatory Compliance Hazardous Waste Retail Consumer Goods Supply Chain SustainabilityDangerous GoodsProduct Classification

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Product Information Management

BC-2370

products

GET /classification/v1/products/:upc POST /classification/v1/products/bulk GET /classification/v1/products

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-10-09 · rubric v0.23.0

Composite quality — 46.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 9.9 / 15

Access Clarity 5.5 / 15

Operational Transparency 2.6 / 10

Contract Governance 0.4 / 9

Discoverability 5.0 / 8

Regulatory Posture 5.3 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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APIs 4

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

Smarter Sorting Api(.*) API

The Api(.*) API from Smarter Sorting — 1 operation(s) for api(.*).

Smarter Sorting Assets(.*) API

The Assets(.*) API from Smarter Sorting — 1 operation(s) for assets(.*).

Smarter Sorting Docs(.*) API

The Docs(.*) API from Smarter Sorting — 2 operation(s) for docs(.*).

Smarter Sorting Products API

The products API from Smarter Sorting — 4 operation(s) for products.

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Smarter Sorting Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Smarter Sorting Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Event Specifications 1

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

Smarter Sorting Event Surface

ASYNCAPI

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Smarter Sorting Customer Classification V1 Overlay

9 actions · documentation · smarter-sorting-customer-classification-v1-openapi.yml

GENERATED

Security Posture 4

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

Smarter Sorting Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Smarter Sorting Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

SECURITY

Smarter Sorting Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone

SECURITY

Smarter Sorting Trust Center

SOC 2 Type II

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Access & Security 6

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Compliance

TrustCenter

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Plans

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: smarter-sorting
name: Smarter Sorting
description: Smarter Sorting (which rebranded as SmarterX in 2023 and now operates as part of Syndigo) is an Austin, Texas
  product-intelligence and regulatory-classification company serving retailers, consumer-goods brands and the logistics industry.
  Its Smarter-1 platform takes a customer's product catalog — at minimum a UPC and a product name — and returns machine-generated
  regulatory classifications covering hazardous-waste handling (RCRA waste codes and state waste codes), transport of dangerous
  goods (DOT, IATA and IMDG hazard classes, UN numbers, packing groups and proper shipping names), NFPA 704 fire-diamond ratings,
  lithium-battery attributes and UN 38.3 documentation, so that a retailer can decide whether an item may be sold, shipped,
  donated, recycled, reclaimed or must be disposed of as regulated waste. The company publishes a public Customer Classification
  API (OpenAPI 3.1.0) alongside its Back of Store Solution (BOSS) platform, a developer portal, a staging environment and
  a public status page.
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://portal.smartersorting.com/assets/imgs/logo-ss-color.svg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/smarter-sorting/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-28'
modified: '2026-08-28'
tags:
- Company
- Product Data
- Regulatory Compliance
- Hazardous Waste
- Retail
- Consumer Goods
- Supply Chain
- Sustainability
- Dangerous Goods
- Product Classification
apis:
- aid: smarter-sorting:smarter-sorting-api-api
  name: Smarter Sorting Api(.*) API
  description: The Api(.*) API from Smarter Sorting — 1 operation(s) for api(.*).
  humanURL: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.smartersorting.com
  tags: []
  tags_raw:
  - Api(.*)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smarter-sorting-api-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs/api
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/smarter-sorting-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/smarter-sorting-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/smarter-sorting-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/smarter-sorting-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/smarter-sorting-sandbox.yml
- aid: smarter-sorting:smarter-sorting-assets-api
  name: Smarter Sorting Assets(.*) API
  description: The Assets(.*) API from Smarter Sorting — 1 operation(s) for assets(.*).
  humanURL: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.smartersorting.com
  tags:
  - Assets
  tags_raw:
  - Assets(.*)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smarter-sorting-assets-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs/api
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/smarter-sorting-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/smarter-sorting-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/smarter-sorting-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/smarter-sorting-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/smarter-sorting-sandbox.yml
- aid: smarter-sorting:smarter-sorting-docs-api
  name: Smarter Sorting Docs(.*) API
  description: The Docs(.*) API from Smarter Sorting — 2 operation(s) for docs(.*).
  humanURL: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.smartersorting.com
  tags:
  - Docs
  tags_raw:
  - Docs(.*)
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smarter-sorting-docs-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs/api
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/smarter-sorting-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/smarter-sorting-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/smarter-sorting-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/smarter-sorting-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/smarter-sorting-sandbox.yml
- aid: smarter-sorting:smarter-sorting-products-api
  name: Smarter Sorting Products API
  description: The products API from Smarter Sorting — 4 operation(s) for products.
  humanURL: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.smartersorting.com
  tags:
  - Product
  tags_raw:
  - products
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/smarter-sorting-products-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs/api
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/smarter-sorting-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/smarter-sorting-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/smarter-sorting-conventions.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/smarter-sorting-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Sandbox
    url: sandbox/smarter-sorting-sandbox.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/smarter-sorting-rate-limits.yml
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/smarter-sorting-capability-edges.yml
  name: Smarter Sorting Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/smarter-sorting-customer-classification-v1-overlay.yaml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/smarter-sorting-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/smarter-sorting-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/smarter-sorting-authentication.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.smartersorting.com/
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
- type: Documentation
  url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs/api
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://api.smartersorting.com/docs#setup
- type: Support
  url: https://support.smartersorting.com/s/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.smartersorting.com/blog
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.smartersorting.com/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.smartersorting.com/legal/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.smartersorting.com/legal/privacy-policy
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/smarter-sorting-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: security/smarter-sorting-trust-center.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/smarter-sorting-trust-center.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/smarter-sorting-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/smarter-sorting-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/smarter-sorting-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/smarter-sorting-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/smarter-sorting-llms.txt
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-28'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 24
  pass: local-v1

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