# Sparrow

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

Sparrow is an end-to-end employee leave management platform for employers in the United States and Canada, pairing software with a team of leave specialists to administer FMLA, CFRA, parental, medical and state paid-leave programs. The platform automates employee intake, files the associated insurance claims, coordinates with medical providers, delivers required notices, builds a personalized leave and financial plan for each employee, and reconciles leave pay back into payroll. Sparrow connects to customer HRIS and payroll systems — Workday, BambooHR, Gusto and ADP among them — by file feed rather than through a public developer API, and it publishes no developer portal, OpenAPI or SDK. The company was founded in 2018 in San Francisco by Deborah Hanus and Samarth Keshava, has raised roughly $64M across Series A and Series B rounds, and its shares are quoted on secondary marketplaces such as Forge Global.

## Kin Score — 22.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-09-02 under rubric 0.18.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 43.4 |
| Access Clarity | 43.4 |

## Agent readiness — 17.6 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | served |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | served |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | yes |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (4)

- **Sparrow Authentication** — 1 scheme
- **Sparrow Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Sparrow Vulnerability Disclosure** — Hackerone · contact published
- **Sparrow Trust Center** — SOC 2 Type II, ISO/IEC 27001, ISO/IEC 27001 Statement of Applicability, ISO/IEC 27701, ISO 22301, GDPR, CCPA, PIPEDA

## Plans (1)

- **Sparrow Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Leave Management, Human Resources, HR Tech, Payroll, Compliance, Employee Benefits, Absence Management, Software-as-a-Service

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