Tako

Tako is an AI answer-engine API for authoritative, source-grounded data. It serves live financial, macroeconomic, and company data as cited answers, structured knowledge cards (charts, tables, maps), and embeddable visualizations for agents and applications. Developers build with four core APIs — Search (fast structured knowledge cards with no LLM in the loop), Answer (a single written, cited response), Contents (the exact numbers behind a card, as CSV), and Agent (asynchronous deep research runs) — plus a Data Graph for discovering what data exists, and Thin-Viz for turning your own data into embeddable Tako cards. Tako pulls from authoritative government, academic, think-tank, and licensed providers (S&P Global, SimilarWeb, YouGov, NOAA) — not scraped web content. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an official hosted MCP server, Python and TypeScript SDKs, an installable Agent Skill, an llms.txt, a Machine Payments Protocol surface, and emphasizes zero data retention, SOC 2 compliance, and guaranteed SLAs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Ribbit Capital.

Tako publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network: agent API and tako API. Tagged areas include Company, AI, Data, Search, and Answer Engine.

Tako’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, signup flow, pricing, engineering blog, support, and 23 more developer resources.

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50.0/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 76/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
AccessSelf serve
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyAIDataSearchAnswer EngineFinancial DataKnowledge GraphAgentsMCPData Visualization

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 50.0/100 · developing
Contract Quality 14.2 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 16.1 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.5 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 76/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Tako agent API

The agent API from Tako — 4 operation(s) for agent.

Tako tako API

The tako API from Tako — 7 operation(s) for tako.

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

tako-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tako Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Tako Finops

FINOPS

Security Posture 2

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

Tako Authentication

apiKey · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Tako Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Tako Agentic Access

13 operations · 6 acting

13 operations · 6 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 SignUp
SignUp

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 5

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conventions
Conventions
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Conformance
Conformance
 DataModel
DataModel
 Components
Components

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages
Packages
 SDKs
SDKs

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support
Support
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing
Pricing
 TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 FinOps
FinOps

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Playground
Playground
 Overlay
Overlay
 APICatalog
APICatalog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: tako
name: Tako
description: Tako is an AI answer-engine API for authoritative, source-grounded data. It serves live financial, macroeconomic,
  and company data as cited answers, structured knowledge cards (charts, tables, maps), and embeddable visualizations for
  agents and applications. Developers build with four core APIs — Search (fast structured knowledge cards with no LLM in the
  loop), Answer (a single written, cited response), Contents (the exact numbers behind a card, as CSV), and Agent (asynchronous
  deep research runs) — plus a Data Graph for discovering what data exists, and Thin-Viz for turning your own data into embeddable
  Tako cards. Tako pulls from authoritative government, academic, think-tank, and licensed providers (S&P Global, SimilarWeb,
  YouGov, NOAA) — not scraped web content. It publishes an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, an official hosted MCP server, Python and TypeScript
  SDKs, an installable Agent Skill, an llms.txt, a Machine Payments Protocol surface, and emphasizes zero data retention,
  SOC 2 compliance, and guaranteed SLAs. Surfaced as a portfolio company of Ribbit Capital.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/tako/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://tako.com/apple-touch-icon
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- ribbit-capital
x-tier: enriched
x-tier-reason: has-openapi
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- AI
- Data
- Search
- Answer Engine
- Financial Data
- Knowledge Graph
- Agents
- MCP
- Data Visualization
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
- FN: Tako API Support
  email: api-support@trytako.com
apis:
- aid: tako:tako-agent-api
  name: Tako agent API
  description: The agent API from Tako — 4 operation(s) for agent.
  humanURL: https://docs.tako.com
  baseURL: https://tako.com/api
  tags:
  - agent
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tako-agent-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tako-authentication.yml
- aid: tako:tako-tako-api
  name: Tako tako API
  description: The tako API from Tako — 7 operation(s) for tako.
  humanURL: https://docs.tako.com
  baseURL: https://tako.com/api
  tags:
  - tako
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/tako-tako-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/tako-authentication.yml
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.tako.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.tako.com
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.tako.com/api-reference/search-v3
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.tako.com/documentation/getting-started/quickstart
- type: SignUp
  url: https://tako.com/console/api-keys
- type: Pricing
  url: https://tako.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://tako.com/blog
- type: Playground
  url: https://tako.com/playground
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://tako.com/tos
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://tako.com/privacy
- type: Support
  url: https://docs.tako.com
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/tako-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/tako-mcp.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/tako-packages.yml
- type: SDKs
  url: packages/tako-packages.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/tako-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/tako-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/tako-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/tako-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/tako-finops.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/tako-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/tako-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/tako-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/tako-openapi-overlay.yaml
- type: Components
  url: components/tako-components.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/tako-well-known.yml
- type: APICatalog
  url: well-known/tako-api-catalog.json
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/tako-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/tako-agentic-access.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1