Sound Agriculture

Sound Agriculture is an Emeryville, California agriculture company founded in 2013 by Eric Davidson and Travis Bayer that sells nature-based crop nutrition products to row-crop growers through an independent dealer network: SOURCE, a foliar-applied soil activator that stimulates soil microbes to supply nitrogen and phosphorus; BLUEPRINT, an arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi inoculant; and INFLECT. It also runs an on-demand breeding program that tunes plant gene expression epigenetically without editing DNA. Sound Agriculture is not a software company and publishes no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable contract; its only authenticated surface is a Salesforce Experience Cloud dealer portal at dealerportal.sound.ag.

Sound Agriculture is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Agriculture, AgTech, Biologicals, and Crop Nutrition.

Sound Agriculture’s developer surface includes engineering blog, FAQ, support, and 23 more developer resources.

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13.5/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 18/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent Heartbeat 0/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Agriculture AgTech BiologicalsCrop NutritionSoil Health Fertilizer Plant Breeding Sustainability

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scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 13.5/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 1.5 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.2 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.0 / 15

Agent readiness — 18/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 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 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 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

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 6 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Health 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 could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document
MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 0.0 — up to +25.0 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 7.1 — up to +18.6 composite points
Access Clarity scores 21.1 — up to +15.8 composite points

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Dynamic Client Registration

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

Sound Agriculture API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Sound Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Sound Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Sound Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Sound Vulnerability Disclosure

Hackerone · security.txt · contact published

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DealerPortal

DealerPortal

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

SecurityTxt

SecurityTxt

Security

Security

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

FAQ

FAQ

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 6

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

Newsroom

Careers

LinkedIn

Other 5

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Products

Science

Whitepapers

Sustainability

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: sound
name: Sound Agriculture
description: 'Sound Agriculture is an Emeryville, California agriculture company founded in 2013 by Eric Davidson and Travis
  Bayer that sells nature-based crop nutrition products to row-crop growers through an independent dealer network: SOURCE,
  a foliar-applied soil activator that stimulates soil microbes to supply nitrogen and phosphorus; BLUEPRINT, an arbuscular
  mycorrhizal fungi inoculant; and INFLECT. It also runs an on-demand breeding program that tunes plant gene expression epigenetically
  without editing DNA. Sound Agriculture is not a software company and publishes no developer program, API, SDK or machine-readable
  contract; its only authenticated surface is a Salesforce Experience Cloud dealer portal at dealerportal.sound.ag.'
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  probe_state: none
  source:
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://soundag-usa-production.imgix.net/assets/general/sound-agriculture-seo-image.jpg?w=1200
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/sound/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-18'
modified: '2026-09-18'
tags:
- Company
- Agriculture
- AgTech
- Biologicals
- Crop Nutrition
- Soil Health
- Fertilizer
- Plant Breeding
- Sustainability
tags_raw:
- Company
- Agriculture
- Agtech
- Biologicals
- Crop Nutrition
- Soil Health
- Fertilizer
- Plant Breeding
- Sustainability
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/sound-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/sound-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/sound-well-known.yml
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/sound-security.txt
- type: Security
  url: security/sound-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/sound-packages.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/sound-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/sound-rate-limits.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/sound-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.sound.ag/
- type: About
  url: https://www.sound.ag/about
- type: Products
  url: https://www.sound.ag/sound-solutions
- type: Science
  url: https://www.sound.ag/our-science
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.sound.ag/blog
- type: Newsroom
  url: https://www.sound.ag/news
- type: Whitepapers
  url: https://www.sound.ag/whitepapers
- type: FAQ
  url: https://www.sound.ag/faq
- type: Support
  url: https://www.sound.ag/contact
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.sound.ag/careers
- type: Sustainability
  url: https://www.sound.ag/sustainability
- type: DealerPortal
  url: https://dealerportal.sound.ag/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/soundag
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sound-agriculture/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.sound.ag/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.sound.ag/privacy-policy
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://forgeglobal.com/sound_stock/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-18'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 9
  pass: local-v3
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Sound Agriculture sells physical crop-nutrition biologicals (SOURCE, BLUEPRINT, INFLECT) through dealers and runs
    a plant-breeding lab; its whole public surface is a Craft CMS marketing site whose API-shaped paths 404, its api./developer./docs.
    subdomains are a wildcard CNAME to Pardot with no TLS certificate, its only authenticated host is a Salesforce Experience
    Cloud dealer portal that 302s to /login, and its GitHub org holds lab-automation code and a Postman collection for Leaf
    Agriculture's API rather than any Sound API.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/api
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/graphql
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/.well-known/agent.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://dealerportal.sound.ag/api
    status: 302
  - url: https://dealerportal.sound.ag/.well-known/openid-configuration
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://github.com/soundag
    status: 200
  - url: https://www.sound.ag/
    status: 200
  - url: https://forgeglobal.com/sound_stock/
    status: 403
  checked: '2026-09-18'

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