# Vela Labs

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/vela-labs/  
**Website:** https://welcome.getvela.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 10.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## 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)

- **Vela Labs Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Tags

Company, E-Commerce, Sellers, Listings, Bulk Editing, Etsy, Shopify, eBay, Artificial Intelligence

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