# Venue Authority

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/venueauthority/  
**Website:** https://venueauthority.com  
**APIs profiled:** 5

Venue Authority is a self-serve facility verification and monitoring API for payment facilitators, marketplaces, KYB providers and restaurant platforms working with food-service businesses. It matches a business name and street address to a supported regulator facility record, returns source-linked evidence for that match, and supports ongoing portfolio monitoring so a change at the regulator surfaces after onboarding rather than at the next manual review. The public contract is an OpenAPI 3.1 document of 12 paths and 15 operations, authenticated with a bearer API key, and the provider tags every operation into five groups — resolution and evidence, coverage, watchlists, webhooks and audit exports — which is how it is carried here as five per-resource documents. Coverage is enumerated by the API itself rather than described in prose, and the provider publishes an APIs.json, llms.txt, llms-full.txt, a Postman collection and a machine-readable error catalogue alongside the contract, plus MIT-licensed Node.js, Python and MCP client packages released on GitHub with checksummed build artifacts.

## Kin Score — 32.9 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 32.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 53.3 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 31.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 26.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

Regulatory layer — **Payments**: 21.9 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 21.4 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | documented |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | partial |
| 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 |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## APIs (5)

- **Venue Authority Audit Exports API** — Create and download workspace-scoped evidence exports.
- **Venue Authority Coverage API** — Read supported sources, record counts, availability, and freshness.
- **Venue Authority Resolution & Evidence API** — Resolve a merchant and retrieve its canonical regulator record and retained evidence.
- **Venue Authority Watchlists API** — Manage workspace-owned facility watchlists and stable change history.
- **Venue Authority Webhooks API** — Register endpoints and inspect delivery attempts.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Venue Authority MCP Server**

## Tags

Facility Verification, KYB, Food Service, Payments, Marketplaces, Compliance, Monitoring, Regulatory Data

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