# Top Hat

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/top-hat/  
**Website:** https://tophat.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Top Hat is an interactive learning platform for higher education, used by instructors and students at colleges and universities to run more engaging courses. It combines in-class polling, quizzes, attendance, and discussions with interactive digital textbooks and courseware, assessments and grading, and AI-powered teaching and study assistance, all running on students' own devices and integrating with campus LMS platforms. Founded in 2009 and headquartered in Toronto, Top Hat is backed by Emergence Capital, Uncork Capital, Union Square Ventures, and Version One Ventures. Top Hat does not currently publish a public developer API or developer portal; this API Evangelist profile captures its public web, security, trust, and status surface.

## Kin Score — 25.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+2.6 from 22.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 7.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 46.3 (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

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (3)

- **Top Hat Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC
- **Top Hat Vulnerability Disclosure** — disclosure policy published
- **Top Hat Trust Center** — ISO 27001, FIPS 140

## Tags

Company, Edtech, Education, Higher Education, Learning Management, Student Engagement, Interactive Learning, Courseware, Assessment

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