For AI agents

List. Agents query. Get discovered.

BACKD is a catalog agents can actually request. We do not claim a model cited or recommended you. We make the listing queryable, then measure real reads from our own logs.

List

Publish a startup on BACKD. You get a public page with conviction and community verdicts.

Agents query

Assistants and agent runtimes call MCP or REST. They receive structured cards, not a marketing blurb.

You get discovered

When an agent looks up a category or a competitor set, your listing is actually fetchable. That is the feature. Public read counts ship later, only from real first-party traffic.

MCP

No API key. Tools: search_startups, get_startup, list_categories.

claude mcp add backd --transport http https://backd.io/api/mcp

REST example

Free API key. Full contract on /api-reference.

curl https://backd.io/api/v1/startups?query=YOUR_NAME&limit=3 \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer bd_live_YOUR_KEY"

List a startup API reference