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 1 API on the APIs.io network: Data API. Tagged areas include Company, Legal Tech, Contract Intelligence, Contract Certification, and Contract Analysis.

TermScout’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, pricing, and 11 more developer resources.

42.5/100 developing ▲ 22.7 Agent 19/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
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1 APIs
CompanyLegal TechContract IntelligenceContract CertificationContract AnalysisProcurementLegal OperationsSales EnablementAIContract DataDocument Analysis

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 42.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 11.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 1.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 18.4 / 20
Operational Transparency 1.4 / 13
Governance 2.5 / 12
Discoverability 7.6 / 10
Agent readiness — 19/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 1

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

TermScout Data API

The termscout-data API turns a commercial agreement into structured contract intelligence. Callers upload a contract (or point at a hosted public contract URL), poll processing ...

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Termscout Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

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

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Access & Security 5

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
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.'
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: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-14'
tags:
- Company
- Legal Tech
- Contract Intelligence
- Contract Certification
- Contract Analysis
- Procurement
- Legal Operations
- Sales Enablement
- AI
- Contract Data
- Document Analysis
apis:
- name: TermScout Data API
  description: The termscout-data API turns a commercial agreement into structured contract intelligence. Callers upload a
    contract (or point at a hosted public contract URL), poll processing status, then read back extracted fields, citations
    with source language, predicted labels and confidence scores, predicted red flags, playbook pass/fail detail, a topic-level
    prediction summary, and a scored contract overview. A separate market-data endpoint returns frequency counts across contract
    positions so a single contract can be benchmarked against TermScout's corpus. Query parameters are kebab-case and response
    fields are snake_case. Every request requires both an x-api-key header and an Authorization credential validated by a
    custom authorizer.
  humanURL: https://api.termscout.com/docs
  baseURL: https://api.termscout.com
  tags:
  - contract-intelligence
  - contract-analysis
  - legal-tech
  - document-analysis
  - benchmarking
  - market-data
  - legal-operations
  - procurement
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/termscout-data-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: Overlay
    url: overlays/termscout-data-overlay.yaml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/termscout-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/termscout-lifecycle.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- 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