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, Artificial Intelligence, 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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50.7/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 43/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Artificial Intelligence Data Search Answer Engine Financial Data Knowledge Graph Agents MCP Data Visualization

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

Composite quality — 50.7/100 · developing

Contract Quality 14.3 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 15.0 / 20

Access Clarity 10.5 / 20

Operational Transparency 2.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 43/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 7 / 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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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APIs 2

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

MCP Servers 1

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

Tako MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Tako Rate Limits

1 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

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

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

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgenticAccess

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

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

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

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)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  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: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- Data
- Search
- Answer Engine
- Financial Data
- Knowledge Graph
- Agents
- MCP
- Data Visualization
tags_raw:
- 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:
  - Agents
  tags_raw:
  - 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
  tags_raw:
  - 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

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