The Lowdown

The Lowdown is the UK's leading community-driven reproductive and sexual health platform for women, founded in 2019 by Alice Pelton. It enables people to review and research their health conditions, symptoms and medications so they can make more informed decisions, starting with contraception and expanding into menopause, fertility, PCOS, endometriosis, periods and weight care. The platform combines scientific information with a unique dataset of thousands of community reviews and hundreds of thousands of data points on lived experience across dozens of contraceptive methods and brands, alongside medical advice and online prescriptions. It is free to use, monetising through partnerships with the NHS, women's health innovators and clinical trial recruitment. The Lowdown was surfaced as a portfolio company of Speedinvest and added to the API Evangelist network for enrichment; it is a consumer web platform and currently exposes no public API or developer program.

The Lowdown is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Women’s Health, Femtech, Reproductive Health, and Contraception.

The Lowdown’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 2 more developer resources.

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8.1/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyWomen's HealthFemtechReproductive HealthContraceptionDigital HealthHealthcareConsumer

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Composite quality — 8.1/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

The Lowdown Domain Security

TLSv1.2 · DMARC

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Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 Blog
Blog

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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name: The Lowdown
description: The Lowdown is the UK's leading community-driven reproductive and sexual health platform for women, founded in
  2019 by Alice Pelton. It enables people to review and research their health conditions, symptoms and medications so they
  can make more informed decisions, starting with contraception and expanding into menopause, fertility, PCOS, endometriosis,
  periods and weight care. The platform combines scientific information with a unique dataset of thousands of community reviews
  and hundreds of thousands of data points on lived experience across dozens of contraceptive methods and brands, alongside
  medical advice and online prescriptions. It is free to use, monetising through partnerships with the NHS, women's health
  innovators and clinical trial recruitment. The Lowdown was surfaced as a portfolio company of Speedinvest and added to the
  API Evangelist network for enrichment; it is a consumer web platform and currently exposes no public API or developer program.
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