Ventura

Ventura builds the AI workforce for distributors and manufacturers, starting with quoting and order entry. It reads inbound requests in any format - emails, PDFs, images, and phone calls - matches products against the customer's catalog, drafts a quote or order for a sales rep to review and approve, and pushes the approved result into the customer's ERP, with sales intelligence and a phone agent that transcribes rep calls and creates the resulting quote or order. Ventura plugs into the ERP and CRM a distributor already runs, follows the team's documented procedures, and learns from every correction. Ventura (formerly Autola) is operated by Gradient Ascent Labs, Inc., a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company based in San Francisco founded by Swen Koller and Jack Collins. As of 2026-08-14 the company publishes a marketing website and a privacy policy only: no public API, developer portal, documentation, SDK, OpenAPI, MCP server, or agent card was found on any Ventura host, and the customer application at app.ventura.ai redirects every path to a login.

Ventura is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, AI Agents, Distributors, and Manufacturers.

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10.9/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessApproval

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Company Artificial Intelligence AI Agents Distributors Manufacturers Quoting Order Entry ERP Industrials Sales Automation Y Combinator

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 10.9/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20

Access Clarity 3.7 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 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

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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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ventura Plans Pricing

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PLANS

Security Posture 1

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

Ventura Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Compliance

Compliance

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

ContactPage

ContactPage

Contact

Contact

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

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Website

Website

LinkedIn

Investors

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: ventura
name: Ventura
description: 'Ventura builds the AI workforce for distributors and manufacturers, starting with quoting and order entry. It
  reads inbound requests in any format - emails, PDFs, images, and phone calls - matches products against the customer''s
  catalog, drafts a quote or order for a sales rep to review and approve, and pushes the approved result into the customer''s
  ERP, with sales intelligence and a phone agent that transcribes rep calls and creates the resulting quote or order. Ventura
  plugs into the ERP and CRM a distributor already runs, follows the team''s documented procedures, and learns from every
  correction. Ventura (formerly Autola) is operated by Gradient Ascent Labs, Inc., a Y Combinator Winter 2026 company based
  in San Francisco founded by Swen Koller and Jack Collins. As of 2026-08-14 the company publishes a marketing website and
  a privacy policy only: no public API, developer portal, documentation, SDK, OpenAPI, MCP server, or agent card was found
  on any Ventura host, and the customer application at app.ventura.ai redirects every path to a login.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: approval
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/da34d67bc7bfb583fad0d2c587e602fbe787b210.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/ventura/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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: '2026-08-14'
x-legal-entity: Gradient Ascent Labs, Inc.
x-founded: '2025'
x-headquarters: San Francisco, CA, United States
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- AI Agents
- Distributors
- Manufacturers
- Quoting
- Order Entry
- ERP
- Industrials
- Sales Automation
- Y Combinator
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/ventura-domain-security.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/ventura-conformance.yml
- type: Compliance
  url: conformance/ventura-conformance.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/ventura-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/ventura-llms.txt
- type: Website
  url: https://www.ventura.ai
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.ventura.ai/privacy-policy
- type: ContactPage
  url: https://ventura.ai/#contact
- type: Contact
  url: mailto:support@ventura.ai
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/getventura
- type: Investors
  url: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/ventura
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-14'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: 'Ventura sells a hosted AI application that its own team wires into a customer''s ERP during onboarding, not a developer
    product: api.ventura.ai, docs.ventura.ai and developer.ventura.ai do not resolve in DNS, the marketing site''s sitemap
    lists only the homepage and the privacy policy, and the customer app at app.ventura.ai 307-redirects every path - including
    every /.well-known/* path - to /authenticate.'
  evidence:
  - url: https://ventura.ai/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ventura.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://ventura.ai/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://ventura.ai/sitemap.xml
    status: 200
  - url: https://app.ventura.ai/openapi.json
    status: 307
  - url: https://ventura.ai/pricing
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-14'

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