# Tako

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/tako/  
**Website:** https://docs.tako.com  
**APIs profiled:** 2

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.

## Kin Score — 53.4 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 53.4).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 60.4 |
| Governance | 11.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 21.1 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 80.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 52.6 |

## Agent readiness — 56.3 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

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

## APIs (2)

- **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)

- **tako-mcp.yml**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Tako Agentic Access** — 13 operations · 6 acting

## Security (2)

- **Tako Authentication** — apiKey · 1 scheme
- **Tako Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, AI, Data, Search, Answer Engine, Financial Data, Knowledge Graph, Agents, MCP, Data Visualization

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