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Touchlight

Touchlight is a UK-based cell-free DNA manufacturer, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Hampton, London, that produces synthetic DNA enzymatically rather than by bacterial fermentation. Its doggybone DNA (dbDNA) platform — along with mbDNA and z-dbDNA — is a cell-free, plasmid-free DNA vector used as starting material for mRNA, viral vector (AAV, lentivirus), non-viral gene therapy, gene editing and DNA vaccine programs, manufactured at what the company describes as the first GMP-licensed facility for fully cell-free enzymatic DNA. Touchlight sells physical DNA material — off-the-shelf catalogue constructs and custom RUO-to-GMP manufacturing — and operates no developer program, public API, or machine-readable API contract of any kind.

Touchlight is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Life Sciences, DNA Manufacturing, and Synthetic Biology.

Touchlight’s developer surface includes engineering blog and 9 more developer resources.

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9.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
0 APIs
CompanyBiotechnologyLife SciencesDNA ManufacturingSynthetic BiologyGene TherapyVaccinesContract Manufacturing

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scored 2026-09-02 · rubric v0.18.0
Composite quality — 9.5/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 21
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 17
Access Clarity 3.6 / 17
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11
Contract Governance 0.0 / 10
Discoverability 4.3 / 9
Regulatory Posture 2.6 / 15
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
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
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 Surface 0 / 5
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Security Posture 1

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

Touchlight Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact
Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 Careers
Careers

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: touchlight
name: Touchlight
description: Touchlight is a UK-based cell-free DNA manufacturer, founded in 2007 and headquartered in Hampton, London, that
  produces synthetic DNA enzymatically rather than by bacterial fermentation. Its doggybone DNA (dbDNA) platform — along with
  mbDNA and z-dbDNA — is a cell-free, plasmid-free DNA vector used as starting material for mRNA, viral vector (AAV, lentivirus),
  non-viral gene therapy, gene editing and DNA vaccine programs, manufactured at what the company describes as the first GMP-licensed
  facility for fully cell-free enzymatic DNA. Touchlight sells physical DNA material — off-the-shelf catalogue constructs
  and custom RUO-to-GMP manufacturing — and operates no developer program, public API, or machine-readable API contract of
  any kind.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/touchlight/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://touchlight.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/website_meta-1.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-harvest-source-url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/touchlight-stock
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-30'
modified: '2026-08-30'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Life Sciences
- DNA Manufacturing
- Synthetic Biology
- Gene Therapy
- Vaccines
- Contract Manufacturing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/touchlight-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://touchlight.com/
- type: About
  url: https://touchlight.com/about-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://touchlight.com/news/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://touchlight.com/feed/
- type: Contact
  url: https://touchlight.com/contact/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://touchlight.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://touchlight.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Careers
  url: https://touchlight.com/about-us/careers/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/touchlight-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-30'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: 'Touchlight sells physical genetic material — GMP-grade cell-free dbDNA constructs and custom DNA manufacturing
    — so its only web surface is a WordPress marketing site: there is no developer portal, no /developers, /api or docs host,
    and the site''s own Yoast-generated llms.txt indexes only marketing pages, news posts and an "Applications" post type
    with no API named anywhere.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://touchlight.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  - url: https://touchlight.com/developers/
    status: 404
  - url: https://touchlight.com/api/
    status: 404
  - url: https://touchlight.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://touchlight.com/.well-known/api-catalog
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-30'

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