Zum

Zum is a student transportation technology company that runs school bus operations for K-12 school districts through its Connected Mobility Experience (CMX) platform. Founded by Ritu Narayan and headquartered in Redwood City, California, Zum unifies parents, students, drivers, and district administrators with real-time ride tracking, route optimization, parent notification apps, driver tooling, fleet management dashboards, and an electrified bus program. The company serves roughly 6,500 schools and districts, has completed more than 159 million rides, and is backed by SoftBank Vision Fund. Zum operates consumer-facing parent and driver mobile apps and district dashboards, but publishes no public developer portal, API documentation, or API surface at this time.

Zum is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Transportation, Student Transportation, Mobility, and School Bus.

Zum’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 7 more developer resources.

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11.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

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CompanyTransportationStudent TransportationMobilitySchool BusFleet ManagementElectrificationK-12 Education

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scored 2026-08-20 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 11.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 1.2 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.9 / 15

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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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Blog

Careers

Press

Source (apis.yml)

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name: Zum
description: Zum is a student transportation technology company that runs school bus operations for K-12 school districts
  through its Connected Mobility Experience (CMX) platform. Founded by Ritu Narayan and headquartered in Redwood City, California,
  Zum unifies parents, students, drivers, and district administrators with real-time ride tracking, route optimization, parent
  notification apps, driver tooling, fleet management dashboards, and an electrified bus program. The company serves roughly
  6,500 schools and districts, has completed more than 159 million rides, and is backed by SoftBank Vision Fund. Zum operates
  consumer-facing parent and driver mobile apps and district dashboards, but publishes no public developer portal, API documentation,
  or API surface at this time.
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- Electrification
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