Narrative Sports

Narrative Sports (Narrative AI Inc., YC Fall 2025, listed by Y Combinator as "usenarrative") is an AI-powered sports content platform that automates the creation and distribution of broadcast-ready highlight videos for broadcasters, teams, and leagues. Its API ingests live SRT streams for soccer and MMA, detects key moments in real time, and returns rendered clips in multiple aspect ratios, single-game recaps, multi-game highlight packages, and OTIO edit timelines.

Narrative Sports publishes 6 API contracts indexed on the APIs.io network, including Health API, Highlight Packages API, Highlights API, and 3 more. Tagged areas include Sports, Video, Artificial Intelligence, Highlights, and Broadcasting.

The Narrative Sports catalog on APIs.io includes 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

Narrative Sports’ developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, pricing, engineering blog, support, authentication, and 19 more developer resources.

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1 published contract 3 Agent Skills

Sports Video Artificial Intelligence Highlights Broadcasting Media Sports Technology

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Composite quality — 46.9/100 · developing

Contract Quality 9.6 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 7.4 / 15

Access Clarity 8.9 / 15

Operational Transparency 1.8 / 10

Contract Governance 1.6 / 9

Discoverability 5.5 / 8

Regulatory Posture 3.4 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 32/100 · agent ready

Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 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

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
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Request/Response Examples +7 pts — share of operations carrying request/response examples; else an Examples / Code Samples link
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document
Delegated User Identity +6 pts — a served discovery document listing authorization_code in grant_types_supported (served), else an oauth2 authorizationCode flow or openIdConnect declared in an OpenAPI (documented)

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Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Contract Quality scores 51.2 — up to +12.2 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 18.4 — up to +10.6 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 49.4 — up to +10.1 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Film & Media Identifiers (EIDR, ISAN, MovieLabs, DPP)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

APIs 6

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

Narrative Sports Health API

The Health API from Narrative Sports — 1 operation(s) for health.

Narrative Sports Highlight Packages API

The Highlight Packages API from Narrative Sports — 3 operation(s) for highlight packages.

Narrative Sports Highlights API

The Highlights API from Narrative Sports — 4 operation(s) for highlights.

Narrative Sports Projects API

The Projects API from Narrative Sports — 1 operation(s) for projects.

Narrative Sports Recaps API

The Recaps API from Narrative Sports — 3 operation(s) for recaps.

Narrative Sports Tasks API

The Tasks API from Narrative Sports — 8 operation(s) for tasks.

Open Collections 6

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Narrative Sports Health API

OPEN COLLECTION

Narrative Sports Health Highlight Packages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Narrative Sports Health Highlights API

OPEN COLLECTION

Narrative Sports Health Projects API

OPEN COLLECTION

Narrative Sports Health Recaps API

OPEN COLLECTION

Narrative Sports Health Tasks API

OPEN COLLECTION

Agent Skills 3

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

Create a single-game recap

AGENT SKILL

Build a multi-game highlight package

AGENT SKILL

Process a live sports stream into highlights

AGENT SKILL

Narrative Sports API pricing

Prices published by Narrative Sports, read 2026-10-07 from www.narrative-sports.com/pricing.

Plan	Price
ENTERPRISE	Contact us Includes: On-premises hosting; custom integrations into MAM/vendors; advanced analytics and monitoring; state-

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Usenarrative Plans Pricing

1 plans

PLANS

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Narrative Sports

SLA

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Usenarrative Finops

FINOPS

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Narrative Sports API Rules

50 rules · 39 errors 9 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Usenarrative Sports Overlay

26 actions · documentation · usenarrative-sports-openapi-original.json

DERIVED

Security Posture 2

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

Usenarrative Authentication

http · 1 scheme

SECURITY

Usenarrative Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Usenarrative Agentic Access

24 operations · 10 acting · 1 human-in-the-loop

24 operations · 10 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

DeveloperPortal

DeveloperPortal

Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

APIReference

APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

X-MCPServerCandidate

X-MCPServerCandidate

AgentSkill

AgentSkill

AgenticAccess

AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog

Conventions

Lifecycle

Conformance

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

StatusPage

StatusPage

Commercial 4

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Pricing

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Overlay

Overlay

Source (apis.yml)

aid: usenarrative
name: Narrative Sports
description: Narrative Sports (Narrative AI Inc., YC Fall 2025, listed by Y Combinator as "usenarrative") is an AI-powered
  sports content platform that automates the creation and distribution of broadcast-ready highlight videos for broadcasters,
  teams, and leagues. Its API ingests live SRT streams for soccer and MMA, detects key moments in real time, and returns rendered
  clips in multiple aspect ratios, single-game recaps, multi-game highlight packages, and OTIO edit timelines.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/usenarrative/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://narrative-sports.com/largelogofrontend_white2.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
x-docs-platform: mintlify
x-docs-platform-confidence: medium
x-docs-platform-checked: 2026-10-17
tags:
- Sports
- Video
- Artificial Intelligence
- Highlights
- Broadcasting
- Media
- Sports Technology
apis:
- aid: usenarrative:usenarrative-health-api
  name: Narrative Sports Health API
  description: The Health API from Narrative Sports — 1 operation(s) for health.
  humanURL: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.narrative-sports.com
  tags:
  - Health
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usenarrative-health-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
- aid: usenarrative:usenarrative-highlight-packages-api
  name: Narrative Sports Highlight Packages API
  description: The Highlight Packages API from Narrative Sports — 3 operation(s) for highlight packages.
  humanURL: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.narrative-sports.com
  tags:
  - Highlight Packages
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usenarrative-highlight-packages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
- aid: usenarrative:usenarrative-highlights-api
  name: Narrative Sports Highlights API
  description: The Highlights API from Narrative Sports — 4 operation(s) for highlights.
  humanURL: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.narrative-sports.com
  tags:
  - Highlights
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usenarrative-highlights-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
- aid: usenarrative:usenarrative-projects-api
  name: Narrative Sports Projects API
  description: The Projects API from Narrative Sports — 1 operation(s) for projects.
  humanURL: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.narrative-sports.com
  tags:
  - Project
  tags_raw:
  - Projects
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usenarrative-projects-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
- aid: usenarrative:usenarrative-recaps-api
  name: Narrative Sports Recaps API
  description: The Recaps API from Narrative Sports — 3 operation(s) for recaps.
  humanURL: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.narrative-sports.com
  tags:
  - Recaps
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usenarrative-recaps-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
- aid: usenarrative:usenarrative-tasks-api
  name: Narrative Sports Tasks API
  description: The Tasks API from Narrative Sports — 8 operation(s) for tasks.
  humanURL: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
  baseURL: https://api.narrative-sports.com
  tags:
  - Task
  tags_raw:
  - Tasks
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/usenarrative-tasks-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/usenarrative-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.narrative-sports.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/
- type: APIReference
  url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/api-reference/sports/introduction
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://docs.narrative-sports.com/quickstart
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://app.narrative-sports.com/api-dashboard
- type: Login
  url: https://app.narrative-sports.com/
- type: Pricing
  url: https://narrative-sports.com/pricing
- type: Blog
  url: https://narrative-sports.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://narrative-sports.com/support
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://narrative-sports.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://narrative-sports.com/privacy
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://status.narrative-sports.com/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Narrative-Sports
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/usenarrative-llms.txt
- type: X-MCPServerCandidate
  url: mcp/usenarrative-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: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/usenarrative-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/usenarrative-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/usenarrative-lifecycle.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/usenarrative-conformance.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/usenarrative-data-model.yml
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/usenarrative-sports-overlay.yaml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/usenarrative-domain-security.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/usenarrative-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/usenarrative-authentication.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 17
  pass: local-v1

Narrative Sports API — frequently asked questions

Does Narrative Sports have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 6 APIs from Narrative Sports, including Narrative Sports Health API, Narrative Sports Highlight Packages API and Narrative Sports Highlights API, and 3 more.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Narrative Sports API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 6 OpenAPI specifications for Narrative Sports, each linked for download from this page.

How do I authenticate with the Narrative Sports API?

Narrative Sports uses bearer-token authentication (http · 1 scheme). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Usenarrative Authentication.

How much does the Narrative Sports API cost?

APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Narrative Sports, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Narrative Sports API ready for AI agents?

Narrative Sports has a Kin Score of 46.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 31.9 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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