TermScout

TermScout is a contract intelligence and certification company for legal, procurement, and sales teams. Its platform analyzes and benchmarks commercial agreements against market standards, generates contract signals through Certify (AI contract analysis), and certifies contracts with TrustMark as an external, third-party signal of fairness that helps buyers and sellers close deals faster with less negotiation. TermScout was surfaced as a Techstars portfolio company and profiled in the API Evangelist network. TermScout does publish a machine-readable contract: an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition for the "termscout-data" API is served anonymously at https://api.termscout.com/docs, covering contract upload, processing status, extracted fields, citations, predicted labels and red flags, playbook results, and aggregate market data across contract positions. The API itself is key-gated (x-api-key plus an Authorization bearer credential) and access is arranged through sales; there is no self-serve developer portal, SDK, or published API reference. Its end-user products are delivered through the app.termscout.com web application, which also publishes an llms.txt index of public TrustMark contract reports.

TermScout publishes 2 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network: Contract Positions API and Contracts API. Tagged areas include Company, Legal Tech, Contract Intelligence, Contract Certification, and Contract Analysis.

The TermScout catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

TermScout’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, pricing, and 16 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Profile data on GitHub

47.2/100 developing ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware Front door AI 3/6 light Heartbeat 100/100 alive saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0 · Show this score on your site →

AccessPaidApproval

1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Company Legal Tech Contract IntelligenceContract CertificationContract Analysis Procurement Legal Operations Sales Enablement Artificial IntelligenceContract DataDocument Analysis

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Legal Management

BC-150

Contract PositionsContracts

GET /contract-positions

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 47.2/100 · developing

Contract Quality 8.7 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 3.1 / 15

Access Clarity 14.0 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.0 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 4.9 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

Show this score on your site.

It updates itself when the score changes. Paste this where you link to your API docs:

<a href="https://apis.io/providers/termscout/"><img src="https://apis.io/badge/termscout/card.svg" alt="TermScout on APIs.io — Kin Score by API Evangelist"></a>

Other styles, a README pill and a shields.io endpoint are on the badge page.

Raise your score.

Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Agentic Access Contract +10 pts — agentic_access artifact present (x-agentic-access), graded by author
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

9 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Developer Ergonomics scores 20.8 — up to +15.8 composite points
Contract Quality scores 46.2 — up to +13.5 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 10.5 — up to +11.6 composite points

Each check links to what satisfies it. Publish the artifact, or tell us where it already lives, and the score moves on the next scoring run.

Improve this rating by publishing the missing artifacts — every area above can be raised, and the full rubric is at apis.io/rating/. Every facet and dimension name above is a link: it opens that measurement's own page — what it means, the exact checks that feed it, how the whole catalog distributes on it, and the providers at the top of it. This rating is computed from the provider profile at artifacts.apis.io/termscout/apis.yml: open an issue on github.com/api-evangelist/termscout to ask a question or point us at an artifact you publish. Submit an artifact on GitHub — free → Manage your own listing — the Influence plan, $499/mo →

Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Procurement and B2B Buying (source-to-pay suites, spend management)	undeclared	-	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 2

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

TermScout Contract Positions API

The Contract Positions API from TermScout — 1 operation(s) for contract positions.

TermScout Contracts API

The Contracts API from TermScout — 9 operation(s) for contracts.

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Analyze a contract end to end

AGENT SKILL

Benchmark a contract term against market data

AGENT SKILL

Review red flags and playbook results

AGENT SKILL

TermScout API pricing

Prices published by TermScout, read 2026-10-28 from www.termscout.com/termscout-pricing.

Plan	Price
Certify™ Platform	$450 per user/month Includes: Five-user minimum. Billed annually.
TrustMark™ Basic	$10,800/year per certified agreement Includes: TrustMark certification for one agreement, buyer-facing dashboard, market-backed Signals
TrustMark™ Pro	$15,600/year per certified agreement Includes: Everything in Basic, plus 1 Improvement Scorecard/year, 1 named-competitor comparison/year, 1 contra
TrustMark™ Premium	$20,400/year per certified agreement Includes: Everything in Pro, plus 2 Improvement Scorecards/year, 3 named-competitor comparisons/year, 4 re-ana
Custom FAQs	$3,000/year Includes: Curated buyer-facing FAQs
3 Competitor Contract Package	$2,500/year Includes: Comparison against three named competitors
TrustMark™ AI	$3,000/year Includes: Available only with Pro plan or higher

Plan details, limits and sources →

Billed by: certified agreement · FinOps profile →

Pricing Plans 2

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Termscout Plans Pricing

7 plans

PLANS

Termscout Price Estimates

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Termscout Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

TermScout

SLA

FinOps 1

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

Termscout Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

TermScout API Rules

50 rules · 47 errors 1 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Termscout Data Overlay

16 actions · documentation · termscout-data-openapi.yml

DERIVED

Security Posture 4

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

Termscout Authentication

apiKey · 2 schemes

SECURITY

Termscout Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Termscout Vulnerability Disclosure

contact published

SECURITY

Termscout Trust Center

SOC 2, GDPR, CCPA

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Login

Agent Surfaces 2

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

TrustCenter

TrustCenter

Compliance

Compliance

Security

Security

VulnerabilityDisclosure

VulnerabilityDisclosure

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Support

Support

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Plans

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: termscout
name: TermScout
description: 'TermScout is a contract intelligence and certification company for legal, procurement, and sales teams. Its
  platform analyzes and benchmarks commercial agreements against market standards, generates contract signals through Certify
  (AI contract analysis), and certifies contracts with TrustMark as an external, third-party signal of fairness that helps
  buyers and sellers close deals faster with less negotiation. TermScout was surfaced as a Techstars portfolio company and
  profiled in the API Evangelist network. TermScout does publish a machine-readable contract: an OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition
  for the "termscout-data" API is served anonymously at https://api.termscout.com/docs, covering contract upload, processing
  status, extracted fields, citations, predicted labels and red flags, playbook results, and aggregate market data across
  contract positions. The API itself is key-gated (x-api-key plus an Authorization bearer credential) and access is arranged
  through sales; there is no self-serve developer portal, SDK, or published API reference. Its end-user products are delivered
  through the app.termscout.com web application, which also publishes an llms.txt index of public TrustMark contract reports.'
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: paid
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: high
  source:
  - https://www.termscout.com/termscout-pricing
  - https://api.termscout.com/docs
  generated: '2026-08-14'
  method: searched
image: https://www.termscout.com/hs-fs/hubfs/Vector%20(21).png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/termscout/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- techstars
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: published-openapi-harvested
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-10-06'
tags:
- Company
- Legal Tech
- Contract Intelligence
- Contract Certification
- Contract Analysis
- Procurement
- Legal Operations
- Sales Enablement
- Artificial Intelligence
- Contract Data
- Document Analysis
tags_raw:
- Company
- Legal Tech
- Contract Intelligence
- Contract Certification
- Contract Analysis
- Procurement
- Legal Operations
- Sales Enablement
- AI
- Contract Data
- Document Analysis
apis:
- aid: termscout:termscout-contract-positions-api
  name: TermScout Contract Positions API
  description: The Contract Positions API from TermScout — 1 operation(s) for contract positions.
  humanURL: https://api.termscout.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.termscout.com
  tags:
  - Contract Positions
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/termscout-contract-positions-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/termscout-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/termscout-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/termscout-data-model.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/termscout-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/termscout-conformance.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/termscout-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/termscout-lifecycle.yml
- aid: termscout:termscout-contracts-api
  name: TermScout Contracts API
  description: The Contracts API from TermScout — 9 operation(s) for contracts.
  humanURL: https://api.termscout.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.termscout.com
  tags:
  - Contracts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/termscout-contracts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/termscout-authentication.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/termscout-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/termscout-data-model.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/termscout-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/termscout-conformance.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/termscout-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/termscout-lifecycle.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/termscout-rate-limits.yml
- url: https://blog.termscout.com/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/termscout-capability-edges.yml
  name: TermScout Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/termscout-data-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://termscout.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.termscout.com
- type: Support
  url: https://learn.termscout.com/knowledge
- type: Pricing
  url: https://www.termscout.com/termscout-pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://app.termscout.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.termscout.com/terms-conditions
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.termscout.com/privacy
- type: TrustCenter
  url: security/termscout-trust-center.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: https://security.termscout.com/
- type: Security
  url: https://security.termscout.com/
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/termscout-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/termscout-domain-security.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/termscout-llms.txt
- type: Plans
  url: plans/termscout-plans-pricing.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-14'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 23
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: covered
  note: 'Round 1 (2026-07-21) recorded TermScout as having no public API. That was wrong, and this round corrected it: STEP
    0b contract discovery on the API HOST ROOT found a live OpenAPI 3.0.1 definition served anonymously at https://api.termscout.com/docs
    (HTTP 200, application/json, 69,776 bytes, 11 operations, 21 schemas), and a real provider-published llms.txt at https://app.termscout.com/llms.txt
    (HTTP 200, 12,386 bytes). Round 1 had checked only the marketing host, where every such path 404s.'
x-not-published:
  note: Verified absences, each probed this round. Recorded so a later round does not re-litigate them and so the gaps are
    legible to the provider.
  developer_portal: false
  api_reference_prose: false
  getting_started: false
  sdks: false
  cli: false
  postman: false
  github_org: false
  status_page: false
  changelog: false
  deprecation_policy: false
  sla: false
  rate_limits: false
  error_catalog: false
  webhooks: false
  asyncapi: false
  mcp_server: false
  agent_card: false
  well_known_documents: false
  sandbox: false
  oauth_scopes: false

TermScout API — frequently asked questions

Does TermScout have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from TermScout, including TermScout Contract Positions API and TermScout Contracts API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the TermScout API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 2 OpenAPI specifications for TermScout, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the TermScout API?

TermScout uses bearer-token authentication (apiKey · 2 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Termscout Authentication.

How much does the TermScout API cost?

TermScout publishes its prices; its Certify™ Platform plan is $450 per user/month as of 2026-10-28. APIs.io lists 7 pricing plans for TermScout, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the TermScout API ready for AI agents?

TermScout has a Kin Score of 47.2 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 20.6 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

Work with this as data

Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.

MCP server

One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.

https://apis.io/mcp

Tools for providers

9 MCP tools reach this

find_providersBrowse and filter every provider in the catalog.
get_provider_artifactsEvery artifact this provider publishes, grouped by type.
get_provider_operationsEvery operation across all of their OpenAPIs — one call instead of parsing every spec.
get_provider_toolsEvery MCP tool they ship, with the operation each wraps.
get_provider_evidenceHow each part of their score was established. Free — the basis for a claim should not sit behind it.
get_provider_ratingPRO — composite, band, trend and facet scores.
apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.
resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.
find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.

All 92 tools →

Call it yourself

curl for this page

This provider

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/termscout"

All providers

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers?limit=25"

Every operation they expose

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/termscout/operations?limit=25"

How their score was established

curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/providers/termscout/evidence"

Calls without X-API-Key need no key. Calls with it need a paid plan — get a key.

Get an API key

Free tier, no form to fill in. Signing in shares your email address with us — we store it to create your key and to recognise you if you sign in with another provider. See our Privacy Policy and Terms.

GitHub Google LinkedIn

A second provider on the same verified email joins the account you already have.