Vela Labs

Vela Labs, Inc. (Vela, formerly Hive) is a San Francisco company founded in 2018 by Justin Killian and Jason Abaluck that provides an AI-driven platform helping eCommerce sellers manage, optimize, and grow their businesses across multiple channels from a single account. Vela supports Etsy, Shopify, eBay, and Faire, offering bulk listing editing, AI-assisted listing creation and optimization, photo editing, and multi-channel publishing for tens of thousands of sellers. A 500 Global portfolio company that has raised $5.5M. Vela consumes the official APIs of the marketplaces it supports but publishes no public API, developer portal, or machine-readable surface of its own.

Vela Labs is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Sellers, Listings, and Bulk Editing.

Vela Labs’ developer surface includes pricing, signup flow, support, FAQ, and 4 more developer resources.

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10.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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CompanyE-CommerceSellersListingsBulk EditingEtsyShopifyeBayArtificial Intelligence

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 10.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.0 / 20

Access Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.0 / 10

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

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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Roadmap

Roadmap

FAQ

FAQ

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: vela-labs
name: Vela Labs
description: Vela Labs, Inc. (Vela, formerly Hive) is a San Francisco company founded in 2018 by Justin Killian and Jason
  Abaluck that provides an AI-driven platform helping eCommerce sellers manage, optimize, and grow their businesses across
  multiple channels from a single account. Vela supports Etsy, Shopify, eBay, and Faire, offering bulk listing editing, AI-assisted
  listing creation and optimization, photo editing, and multi-channel publishing for tens of thousands of sellers. A 500 Global
  portfolio company that has raised $5.5M. Vela consumes the official APIs of the marketplaces it supports but publishes no
  public API, developer portal, or machine-readable surface of its own.
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specificationVersion: '0.23'
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- Artificial Intelligence
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maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: Support
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- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://getvela.ai/help/post/privacy-policy
- type: Roadmap
  url: https://getvela.com/community/wishlist
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