# Useful Sensors

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/useful-sensors/  
**Website:** https://usefulsensors.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Useful Sensors, now operating as Moonshine AI, builds fast, low-resource, private-by-design AI that runs entirely on-device. Founded by former Google TensorFlow leads Pete Warden (CEO) and Manjunath Kudlur (CTO), the company started with plug-and-play hardware like the Person Sensor and Tiny Code Reader and now ships Moonshine, an MIT-licensed family of low-latency speech-to-text, text-to-speech, and intent-recognition models with SDKs for in-browser JavaScript, server-side Python, and C++ on edge devices. There is no hosted cloud API — all speech processing happens locally on the device.

## Kin Score — 18.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 18.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 18.4 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 50.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## 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 (1)

- **Useful Sensors Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Ai Ml, Speech-to-Text, Text-to-Speech, Voice, Edge AI, On-Device AI, Machine-Learning, Open-Source

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