# Taxa

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/taxa/  
**Website:** https://www.taxatech.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Taxa Technologies is a San Francisco and Tokyo synthetic-biology startup engineering the human skin microbiome. Its debut consumer product is a shelf-stable probiotic deodorant cream: a single application of Taxa Probiotics (25.4 billion CFUs in a base of water, mango butter, and sunflower extract) lasts one week by swapping out the skin microbes responsible for body odor, with a line focused on Wakiga (severe underarm odor). The company frames the skin microbiome as a platform whose microbes drive body odor, UV absorption, and mosquito attraction. Backed by Matrix Partners, Taxa currently runs a product waitlist and publishes a consumer marketing site with People, Science, Terms, and Privacy pages, but no public API, developer documentation, or SDKs.

## Kin Score — 10.0 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.0).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Health**: 17.5 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | 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

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (1)

- **Taxa Domain Security** — DMARC

## Tags

Company, Frontier, Biotechnology, Synthetic Biology, Microbiome, Skincare, Consumer Health, Probiotics, Deodorant

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