Smarterer

Smarterer was a Boston-based skills-assessment company that used crowdsourced, adaptive tests to rapidly quantify people's proficiency across 400+ technical, social, and business skills. Backed by Google Ventures (GV), it opened a REST API in March 2015 that let partners embed tests, pull score data, and build leaderboards and profiles on top of its assessment engine. Pluralsight acquired Smarterer for roughly $75M in November 2014, absorbed its test engine into the Pluralsight learning platform, and wound down the standalone product. The smarterer.com domain no longer serves a site (defensively held via MarkMonitor, no DNS A record) and there is no live API surface to enrich.

Smarterer is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Skills Assessment, EdTech, and Education.

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0.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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CompanyConsumerSkills AssessmentEdTechEducationTestingDefunctAcquired

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 0.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.3 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: smarterer
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/smarterer.png
name: Smarterer
description: Smarterer was a Boston-based skills-assessment company that used crowdsourced, adaptive tests to rapidly quantify
  people's proficiency across 400+ technical, social, and business skills. Backed by Google Ventures (GV), it opened a REST
  API in March 2015 that let partners embed tests, pull score data, and build leaderboards and profiles on top of its assessment
  engine. Pluralsight acquired Smarterer for roughly $75M in November 2014, absorbed its test engine into the Pluralsight
  learning platform, and wound down the standalone product. The smarterer.com domain no longer serves a site (defensively
  held via MarkMonitor, no DNS A record) and there is no live API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/smarterer/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: pluralsight
x-acquired-date: '2014-11-19'
x-backed-by:
- gv
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Consumer
- Skills Assessment
- EdTech
- Education
- Testing
- Defunct
- Acquired
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: nochange
  artifacts_added: 0
  pass: local-v1
  notes: Defunct — acquired by Pluralsight (2014); smarterer.com no DNS A record; no live API surface. Historical REST API
    (opened 2015) is dead. No artifacts to search/derive.