# Zest

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/zest/  
**Website:** https://zestequity.com  
**APIs profiled:** 8

Zest Equity is a DIFC/ADGM-based provider of digital infrastructure for private-market transactions across the Middle East and North Africa. Its SPV-as-a-Service (SPaaS) platform lets partners create Cayman/DIFC Special Purpose Vehicles, run FSRA-regulated escrow, and arrange private capital deals. The Zest Public API gives partners programmatic access to the core workflow: OAuth 2.0 JWT-Bearer authentication, contract-validated SPV creation requests, bulk investor onboarding, subscription processing (signed forms + funding receipts), and nine HMAC-SHA256-signed webhook lifecycle events, with Idempotency-Key support on write endpoints and a uniform error envelope.

## Kin Score — 47.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 64.0 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 26.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 66.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 23.7 |
| Access Clarity | 23.7 |

## Agent readiness — 46.8 (agent-native)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | verified |
| Error Semantics | verified |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | yes |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (8)

- **Zest Authentication API** — OAuth 2.0 JWT-Bearer assertion grant. Exchange a partner-signed JWT for a short-lived bearer access token, then send that token in the Authorization header on every partner API ...
- **Zest Contracts API** — Read-only access to the spaas-contract registry (templates, catalogs, primitives, samples) used to validate SPV-request `attributes`.
- **Zest Investors API** — Bulk-create investor records with partial-success semantics. Each row carries its own status / error envelope so a single bad row never fails the batch.
- **Zest SPV Requests API** — Submit SPV creation requests, inspect their lifecycle, and cancel pending ones. SPV requests are reviewed by Zest admins and produce SPV materialisation on approval.
- **Zest Subscription Forms API** — Upload signed subscription forms (PDF or image) for partner-managed subscriptions. Files are streamed to private storage and referenced on the Bid.
- **Zest Subscription Fundings API** — Upload wire-transfer receipts plus funding metadata. Strict order: a signed form must already be on record before fundings can be uploaded.
- **Zest Subscriptions API** — Create one or more subscriptions for a single SPV.
- **Zest System API** — Service health and OpenAPI introspection endpoints.

## MCP servers (1)

- **Zest MCP Server**

## Agentic access (1)

- **Zest Agentic Access** — 23 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Zest Authentication** — http/oauth2 · 1 scheme
- **Zest Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, SPV, Private Markets, Fintech, Equity, Investors, Escrow, SPaaS, MENA

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