Trato

TRATO is an AI-powered Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and electronic signature platform used by more than 180,000 users to centralize, draft, approve, sign and track contracts. It offers template-based smart drafting, automated approval routing, real-time contract tracking, and secure e-signatures, with multi-jurisdiction legal expertise across Mexico, Spain and Germany and support for Mexican NOM-151 advanced electronic signatures. TRATO exposes a JWT-authenticated REST API (Contracts, Templates, Milestones) and webhook events for programmatic contract generation and integration with CRM, document management and payment systems. Founded in 2014 in Mexico City and backed by 500 Global.

Trato publishes 5 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Contracts API, Custom Properties API, Participants API, and 2 more. Tagged areas include Company, Contract Management, Contract Lifecycle Management, Electronic Signature, and Legal Tech.

The Trato catalog on APIs.io includes 1 event-driven AsyncAPI specification.

Trato’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, support, pricing, authentication, and 22 more developer resources.

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36.8/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 25/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

5 APIs

Company Contract Management Contract Lifecycle Management Electronic Signature Legal Tech Document-Management Workflow-Automation Legal

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scored 2026-09-06 · rubric v0.19.0

Composite quality — 36.8/100 · thin

Contract Quality 5.1 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 13.0 / 20

Access Clarity 6.6 / 20

Operational Transparency 3.4 / 13

Contract Governance 0.5 / 12

Discoverability 8.2 / 10

Agent readiness — 25/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 6 / 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 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 6 / 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

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APIs 5

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

Get Started 4

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

Login

Sandbox

Sandbox

Documentation 3

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

AsyncAPI

AsyncAPI

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Webhooks

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Lifecycle

Conformance

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

StatusPage

StatusPage

Support

Support

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: trato
name: Trato
description: TRATO is an AI-powered Contract Lifecycle Management (CLM) and electronic signature platform used by more than
  180,000 users to centralize, draft, approve, sign and track contracts. It offers template-based smart drafting, automated
  approval routing, real-time contract tracking, and secure e-signatures, with multi-jurisdiction legal expertise across Mexico,
  Spain and Germany and support for Mexican NOM-151 advanced electronic signatures. TRATO exposes a JWT-authenticated REST
  API (Contracts, Templates, Milestones) and webhook events for programmatic contract generation and integration with CRM,
  document management and payment systems. Founded in 2014 in Mexico City and backed by 500 Global.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/trato/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
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: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - security
  - sandbox
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Contract Management
- Contract Lifecycle Management
- Electronic Signature
- Legal Tech
- Document-Management
- Workflow-Automation
- Legal
tags_raw:
- Company
- Contract Management
- Contract Lifecycle Management
- Electronic Signature
- Legaltech
- Document Management
- Workflow Automation
- Legal
image: https://trato.io
apis:
- aid: trato:trato-contracts-api
  name: Trato Contracts API
  description: Create, configure, send, sign and manage contracts.
  humanURL: https://developer.trato.io/
  baseURL: https://enterprise.api.trato.io
  tags:
  - Contracts
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trato-contracts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.trato.io/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trato-authentication.yml
- aid: trato:trato-custom-properties-api
  name: Trato Custom Properties API
  description: Attach custom metadata properties to a contract.
  humanURL: https://developer.trato.io/
  baseURL: https://enterprise.api.trato.io
  tags:
  - Custom Properties
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trato-custom-properties-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.trato.io/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trato-authentication.yml
- aid: trato:trato-participants-api
  name: Trato Participants API
  description: Manage participants (signers) on a contract.
  humanURL: https://developer.trato.io/
  baseURL: https://enterprise.api.trato.io
  tags:
  - Participants
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trato-participants-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.trato.io/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trato-authentication.yml
- aid: trato:trato-spectators-api
  name: Trato Spectators API
  description: Manage read-only observers of a contract.
  humanURL: https://developer.trato.io/
  baseURL: https://enterprise.api.trato.io
  tags:
  - Spectators
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trato-spectators-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.trato.io/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trato-authentication.yml
- aid: trato:trato-templates-api
  name: Trato Templates API
  description: List reusable contract templates.
  humanURL: https://developer.trato.io/
  baseURL: https://enterprise.api.trato.io
  tags:
  - Templates
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/trato-templates-api-openapi.yml
  - type: AsyncAPI
    url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developer.trato.io/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/trato-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://trato.io
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developer.trato.io/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developer.trato.io/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developer.trato.io/contracts
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developer.trato.io/
- type: Blog
  url: https://blog.trato.io
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.trato.io
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/contratosapp
- type: Support
  url: https://trato.io/contact
- type: Pricing
  url: https://trato.io/#pricing
- type: Login
  url: https://clm.trato.io/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://trato.io/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://trato.io/privacy-policy
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/tratolegaltech/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/trato-authentication.yml
- type: Webhooks
  url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
- type: AsyncAPI
  url: asyncapi/trato-webhooks-asyncapi.yml
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/trato-mcp.yml
  note: 'Renamed from MCPServer 2026-09-03 (roadmap#247): the manifest self-describes as status: candidate — a tool list derived
    from the published API contracts, not an existing server. The scorer already read the manifest and reported mcp_server
    correctly; the MCPServer type was crediting the artifact-type surfaces with a server that does not exist.'
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Sandbox
  url: sandbox/trato-sandbox.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/trato-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/trato-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/trato-data-model.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/trato-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/trato-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/trato-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/trato-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/trato-llms.txt
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/trato-openapi-overlay.yaml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 16
  pass: local-v1

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APIs 5

Trato Contracts API

Trato Custom Properties API

Trato Participants API

Trato Spectators API

Trato Templates API

Open Collections 6

API Collection

TRATO Contract Contracts API

TRATO Contract Contracts Custom Properties API

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Event Specifications 1

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