Takeoff Technologies, Inc. is an eGrocery micro-fulfillment company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Waltham, Massachusetts. It paired KNAPP-built robotic storage-and-retrieval hardware with its own cloud software stack — order management, inventory, pick routing, labor management, and delivery orchestration — into micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs) installed inside or beside existing supermarkets, so grocers could assemble online orders in minutes instead of sending shoppers down the aisles. Customers and partners included Albertsons, Wakefern Food Corp., Woolworths Group and Chilean grocer SMU. The company filed for Chapter 11 in May 2024 and Woolworths Group acquired its micro-fulfillment assets in August 2024. Takeoff never published a public developer program: there is no developer portal, API reference, SDK or machine-readable specification anywhere on its public surface, and the marketing site at www.takeoff.com no longer serves TLS. A closed API gateway at api.takeoff.com remains live and actively certificate-maintained, serving customer integrations behind authentication.
TakeOff is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Grocery, Retail, E-Commerce, and Fulfillment.
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aid: takeoff
name: TakeOff
description: 'Takeoff Technologies, Inc. is an eGrocery micro-fulfillment company founded in 2016 and headquartered in Waltham,
Massachusetts. It paired KNAPP-built robotic storage-and-retrieval hardware with its own cloud software stack — order management,
inventory, pick routing, labor management, and delivery orchestration — into micro-fulfillment centers (MFCs) installed
inside or beside existing supermarkets, so grocers could assemble online orders in minutes instead of sending shoppers down
the aisles. Customers and partners included Albertsons, Wakefern Food Corp., Woolworths Group and Chilean grocer SMU. The
company filed for Chapter 11 in May 2024 and Woolworths Group acquired its micro-fulfillment assets in August 2024. Takeoff
never published a public developer program: there is no developer portal, API reference, SDK or machine-readable specification
anywhere on its public surface, and the marketing site at www.takeoff.com no longer serves TLS. A closed API gateway at
api.takeoff.com remains live and actively certificate-maintained, serving customer integrations behind authentication.'
accessModel:
pricing: unknown
onboarding: open
trial: false
try_now: false
public: true
label: Open access
confidence: low
source:
- authentication
- security
generated: '2026-09-02'
method: derived
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/32682326?s=200&v=4
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/takeoff/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-29'
modified: '2026-08-29'
tags:
- Company
- Grocery
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Fulfillment
- Micro-Fulfillment
- Warehouse Automation
- Robotics
- Supply Chain
- Logistics
tags_raw:
- Company
- Grocery
- Retail
- eCommerce
- Fulfillment
- Micro-Fulfillment
- Warehouse Automation
- Robotics
- Supply Chain
- Logistics
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: GitHubOrganization
url: https://github.com/TakeoffTech
- type: LLMsTxt
url: llms/takeoff-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
url: security/takeoff-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-29'
status: minimal
artifacts_added: 4
pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
state: gated
reason: customer-only-docs
detail: 'Takeoff''s API is real and live but has no public face at all: api.takeoff.com holds a Google Trust Services certificate
reissued 2026-07-16 and answers {"code":"401", "message":"Missing authentication header."} on /auth and /sites and {"message":"Forbidden"}
on /webhooks and /identity, yet it names no header, serves no OAuth metadata and 404s every spec path, while the company''s
own marketing site www.takeoff.com has had no TLS certificate provisioned at its Webflow origin since the 2024 Chapter
11 and Woolworths asset sale — so integration docs exist only for deployed grocer tenants.'
evidence:
- url: https://api.takeoff.com/auth
status: 401
- url: https://api.takeoff.com/webhooks
status: 403
- url: https://api.takeoff.com/openapi.json
status: 404
- url: https://api.takeoff.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 404
- url: https://api.takeoff.com/llms.txt
status: 404
- url: https://www.takeoff.com/
status: 0
- url: https://status.takeoff.com/
status: 0
- url: https://github.com/TakeoffTech
status: 200
- url: https://forgeglobal.com/takeoff_stock/
status: 403
checked: '2026-08-29'
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