# Standout

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/standout/  
**Website:** https://standout.work  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Standout (standout.work) is an AI talent agent for tech professionals in the United States. Candidates run a CLI (`npx standout`) that assesses how they think, build, and debug to create a living, verified profile of capability rather than a resume. Standout matches candidates to hiring companies and brokers a direct introduction to the founder when a match looks right — no applications and no recruiter middle layer. It is free for candidates; companies pay only on a successful hire. Backed by Y Combinator.

## Kin Score — 12.4 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 8.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **Standout Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Hiring, Recruiting, Talent, Jobs, AI Agents, Developer Tools

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