Install
npm install @kintsugi-tax/tax-platform-sdkTry itExperimental
See what an agent can do with Kintsugi before you ever sign up. Pick a story: recorded sessions replay real probe-harness transcripts; commands tagged live-capable can re-run against the real endpoint from our edge, right now (▶ run live — the exact same request, live and recorded lines always labeled); sandboxed self-drive sessions are designed and gated (docs/TRY-IT.md).
$curl -s -X POST https://api.trykintsugi.com/v1/tax/estimate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' # keyless → documented 422 header contractrecorded session — replayed, not liveVerified integrations
No integration evidence found in our corpus for this product yet — that means none was found, never that it doesn’t integrate.
By theme — the product's score on each story themeBy theme
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticnessevidence →
How well agents can access and operate the product
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depthevidence →
How much of the product can run unattended
Exemption certificates — stories about exemption certificates in this arenaExemption certificatesevidence →
Stories about exemption certificates in this arena
Filing remittance — stories about filing remittance in this arenaFiling remittanceevidence →
Stories about filing remittance in this arena
Global vat — stories about global vat in this arenaGlobal vatevidence →
Stories about global vat in this arena
Nexus monitoring — stories about nexus monitoring in this arenaNexus monitoringevidence →
Stories about nexus monitoring in this arena
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpennessevidence →
Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories
Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy postureevidence →
Data-handling and privacy stories
Product taxability — stories about product taxability in this arenaProduct taxabilityevidence →
Stories about product taxability in this arena
Tax agent access — stories about tax agent access in this arenaTax agent accessevidence →
Stories about tax agent access in this arena
Tax calculation — stories about tax calculation in this arenaTax calculationevidence →
Stories about tax calculation in this arena
Tax registrations — stories about tax registrations in this arenaTax registrationsevidence →
Stories about tax registrations in this arena
Tax reporting — stories about tax reporting in this arenaTax reportingevidence →
Stories about tax reporting in this arena
Story verdicts — every judged story with its evidenceStory verdicts
Follow the green: where the map greys out is where Kintsugi stops today. ✓ full · ~ partial · ! disputed · — none · n/a not applicable.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness
How well agents can access and operate the product
API surface
Drive the product through a documented public API
✓8/10
unlocks → Webhooks · Machine-readable spec · Versioning policy · API sandbox · Official CLI · Full data export · The product ships its own AI for tax questions — is this product taxable in this state, why did this invoice tax this way — answering from its rule base with citations, not a generic chatbot
Subscribe to events via webhooks
—–
Build against official SDKs
✓8/10
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent
~4/10
Connect an agent via an official MCP server
~6/10
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)
!3/10
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy
—0/10
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data
—–
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
~4/10
Agentic features
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product
—0/10
Operate the product with natural-language commands
~3/10
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools
n/an/a
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product
—0/10
Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
~5/10
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth
How much of the product can run unattended
Exemption certificates — stories about exemption certificates in this arenaExemption certificates
Stories about exemption certificates in this arena
Exemption and resale certificates are managed end to end — collected from customers, validated, stored with expiry tracking, and applied automatically at calculation time
~4/10
Mark a customer or transaction exempt through the API — with the exemption reason carried through calculation, reporting, and the filed return
~5/10
Filing remittance — stories about filing remittance in this arenaFiling remittance
Stories about filing remittance in this arena
Returns are prepared, filed, and remitted automatically in every registered jurisdiction — on time, with the vendor's guarantee covering penalties if it files late
~5/10
See the whole filing picture — a calendar of upcoming returns, per-filing status, the amounts remitted, and downloadable confirmations for every return submitted
~3/10
Global vat — stories about global vat in this arenaGlobal vat
Stories about global vat in this arena
Invoices come out compliant where I sell — required VAT fields, registration numbers, and locale rules flow through to my invoicing system or are generated by the product itself
—0/10
VAT and GST are covered like US sales tax — EU OSS/IOSS, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond, with foreign registration thresholds tracked and filings supported
—0/10
B2B cross-border sales are handled correctly — VAT and tax IDs validated against official registries in real time, reverse charge applied when it should be
—0/10
Nexus monitoring — stories about nexus monitoring in this arenaNexus monitoring
Stories about nexus monitoring in this arena
Import my historical transactions and see where I already owe — a backdated exposure analysis with estimated liability, penalties, and interest per jurisdiction
~5/10
The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not after
~6/10
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness
Open source, data portability, and self-hosting stories
Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture
Data-handling and privacy stories
Product taxability — stories about product taxability in this arenaProduct taxability
Stories about product taxability in this arena
Marketplace sales are modeled correctly — transactions where a facilitator (Amazon, app stores) collected the tax are tracked for nexus and reporting without being double-remitted
—–
The product gets the hard cases right — SaaS taxability that differs by state, digital-goods rules, and bundled offerings — with the research behind each determination visible
~3/10
Map my catalog to the vendor's tax categories — SaaS, digital goods, services, physical products — so each line item is taxed by what it is, in every jurisdiction it sells
~6/10
Tax agent access — stories about tax agent access in this arenaTax agent access
Stories about tax agent access in this arena
An agent can read my tax posture — nexus status, registrations, accrued liability, upcoming filings — and act on it through the API or an MCP surface with scoped credentials
~5/10
The product ships its own AI for tax questions — is this product taxable in this state, why did this invoice tax this way — answering from its rule base with citations, not a generic chatbot
—0/10
Tax calculation — stories about tax calculation in this arenaTax calculation
Stories about tax calculation in this arena
The vendor stands behind its numbers — a documented accuracy guarantee or audit support commitment if a calculation it produced turns out wrong
—–
Calculate the right sales tax for a transaction through an API in real time — address-level (rooftop) accuracy, not ZIP-code approximations — fast enough to sit inside checkout
~6/10
There are maintained integrations for my revenue stack — billing systems, payment processors, and commerce platforms feed transactions in without me building the plumbing
~6/10
Rate and rule changes across thousands of jurisdictions are the vendor's job — updates land automatically, are documented when they take effect, and never require me to redeploy
~4/10
Tax registrations — stories about tax registrations in this arenaTax registrations
Stories about tax registrations in this arena
Registering for a sales tax permit is handled in-product — the vendor files state and local registrations on my behalf with transparent per-registration pricing and status tracking
~5/10
Past-due exposure has a remediation path — voluntary disclosure agreements or back-filing support to clean up jurisdictions where I should have been collecting
~4/10
Tax reporting — stories about tax reporting in this arenaTax reporting
Stories about tax reporting in this arena
Refunds and credit notes adjust tax correctly — negative amounts flow through liability, reporting, and the next filing without manual journal fixes
—–
Every calculation is reconstructable — the rate, rules, address resolution, and product category that produced each transaction's tax, retained and exportable for an audit
~3/10
Transactions from every channel can be imported — API backfills and connector syncs from other processors and storefronts — so filings cover my whole business, not just one integration
~6/10
See accrued liability by jurisdiction at any moment — collected versus owed, filing-ready detail, and exports my accountant and GL can consume
~6/10
Sorted by importance (agentic first) (high → low) · 53/53 stories · click a row’s chevron for the rationale and evidence
Drive the product through a documented public API G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | full | 8/10 | Tprobed | |
Connect an agent via an official MCP server G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | none | 0/10 | ||
Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their tools G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 3 | n/a | 0/10 | ||
Build against official SDKs G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | full | 8/10 | Tprobed | |
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | full | 8/10 | Tprobed | |
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
Set up automations that run autonomously in the background G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Tprobed | |
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Tprobed | |
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent) G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | disputed | 3/10 | Dcontradicted | |
Operate the product with natural-language commands G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Tprobed | |
Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product G Agentic features | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Subscribe to events via webhooks G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Use an official CLI G Agent access | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Test against a sandbox environment without touching production data G Api quality | ai-native user | Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productAgenticness | 1 | none | untested | none yet | |
Calculate the right sales tax for a transaction through an API in real time — address-level (rooftop) accuracy, not ZIP-code approximations — fast enough to sit inside checkout C Calculation api | developer | Tax calculation — stories about tax calculation in this arenaTax calculation | 3 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not after C Threshold tracking | founder | Nexus monitoring — stories about nexus monitoring in this arenaNexus monitoring | 3 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
An agent can read my tax posture — nexus status, registrations, accrued liability, upcoming filings — and act on it through the API or an MCP surface with scoped credentials C Agent operations | ai-native user | Tax agent access — stories about tax agent access in this arenaTax agent access | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Tprobed | |
Returns are prepared, filed, and remitted automatically in every registered jurisdiction — on time, with the vendor's guarantee covering penalties if it files late C Autofile | finance lead | Filing remittance — stories about filing remittance in this arenaFiling remittance | 3 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
The product gets the hard cases right — SaaS taxability that differs by state, digital-goods rules, and bundled offerings — with the research behind each determination visible C Saas rules | founder selling software | Product taxability — stories about product taxability in this arenaProduct taxability | 3 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
Define rules that trigger actions automatically on events G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 3 | none | 0/10 | ||
VAT and GST are covered like US sales tax — EU OSS/IOSS, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond, with foreign registration thresholds tracked and filings supported C Vat coverage | founder selling internationally | Global vat — stories about global vat in this arenaGlobal vat | 3 | none | 0/10 | ||
Export all of my data in open formats and leave G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 3 | none | untested | none yet | |
Prevent my data from being used to train AI models G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 3 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Self-host the core product G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 3 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
Map my catalog to the vendor's tax categories — SaaS, digital goods, services, physical products — so each line item is taxed by what it is, in every jurisdiction it sells C Tax codes | developer | Product taxability — stories about product taxability in this arenaProduct taxability | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
See accrued liability by jurisdiction at any moment — collected versus owed, filing-ready detail, and exports my accountant and GL can consume C Liability reports | finance lead | Tax reporting — stories about tax reporting in this arenaTax reporting | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
There are maintained integrations for my revenue stack — billing systems, payment processors, and commerce platforms feed transactions in without me building the plumbing G Integrations | developer | Tax calculation — stories about tax calculation in this arenaTax calculation | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Cclaimed | |
Transactions from every channel can be imported — API backfills and connector syncs from other processors and storefronts — so filings cover my whole business, not just one integration C Channel imports | developer | Tax reporting — stories about tax reporting in this arenaTax reporting | 2 | partial | 6/10 | Tprobed | |
Import my historical transactions and see where I already owe — a backdated exposure analysis with estimated liability, penalties, and interest per jurisdiction C Exposure analysis | finance lead | Nexus monitoring — stories about nexus monitoring in this arenaNexus monitoring | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Mark a customer or transaction exempt through the API — with the exemption reason carried through calculation, reporting, and the filed return C Exempt customers | developer | Exemption certificates — stories about exemption certificates in this arenaExemption certificates | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Registering for a sales tax permit is handled in-product — the vendor files state and local registrations on my behalf with transparent per-registration pricing and status tracking G Registration filing | ops user | Tax registrations — stories about tax registrations in this arenaTax registrations | 2 | partial | 5/10 | Cclaimed | |
Exemption and resale certificates are managed end to end — collected from customers, validated, stored with expiry tracking, and applied automatically at calculation time C Certificate management | ops user | Exemption certificates — stories about exemption certificates in this arenaExemption certificates | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Past-due exposure has a remediation path — voluntary disclosure agreements or back-filing support to clean up jurisdictions where I should have been collecting C Remediation | finance lead | Tax registrations — stories about tax registrations in this arenaTax registrations | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Rate and rule changes across thousands of jurisdictions are the vendor's job — updates land automatically, are documented when they take effect, and never require me to redeploy C Rate maintenance | ops user | Tax calculation — stories about tax calculation in this arenaTax calculation | 2 | partial | 4/10 | Cclaimed | |
Every calculation is reconstructable — the rate, rules, address resolution, and product category that produced each transaction's tax, retained and exportable for an audit C Audit trail | ops user | Tax reporting — stories about tax reporting in this arenaTax reporting | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
Perform bulk operations across many items at once G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
See the whole filing picture — a calendar of upcoming returns, per-filing status, the amounts remitted, and downloadable confirmations for every return submitted C Filing visibility | ops user | Filing remittance — stories about filing remittance in this arenaFiling remittance | 2 | partial | 3/10 | Cclaimed | |
B2B cross-border sales are handled correctly — VAT and tax IDs validated against official registries in real time, reverse charge applied when it should be C Vat validation | developer | Global vat — stories about global vat in this arenaGlobal vat | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Invoices come out compliant where I sell — required VAT fields, registration numbers, and locale rules flow through to my invoicing system or are generated by the product itself C Invoice compliance | ops user | Global vat — stories about global vat in this arenaGlobal vat | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Schedule recurring jobs or workflows G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
The product ships its own AI for tax questions — is this product taxable in this state, why did this invoice tax this way — answering from its rule base with citations, not a generic chatbot C Builtin ai | founder | Tax agent access — stories about tax agent access in this arenaTax agent access | 2 | none | 0/10 | ||
Choose where my data is stored (region/residency) G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Control data retention and deletion G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Marketplace sales are modeled correctly — transactions where a facilitator (Amazon, app stores) collected the tax are tracked for nexus and reporting without being double-remitted C Marketplace rules | finance lead | Product taxability — stories about product taxability in this arenaProduct taxability | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Opt out of telemetry and usage tracking G | ai-native user | Privacy posture — data-handling and privacy storiesPrivacy posture | 2 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Read the product's source under an open license G | ai-native user | Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesOpenness | 2 | n/a | untested | none yet | |
Refunds and credit notes adjust tax correctly — negative amounts flow through liability, reporting, and the next filing without manual journal fixes C Adjustments | developer | Tax reporting — stories about tax reporting in this arenaTax reporting | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
The vendor stands behind its numbers — a documented accuracy guarantee or audit support commitment if a calculation it produced turns out wrong C Accuracy guarantee | finance lead | Tax calculation — stories about tax calculation in this arenaTax calculation | 2 | none | untested | none yet | |
Version, review, and roll back my automations G | ai-native user | Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedAutomation depth | 1 | n/a | untested | none yet |
Opportunities — the stories that would move this product's scores, from its own judged verdictsOpportunitiestop 8 of 42 stories with headroom
What would move Kintsugi’s scores — derived from its own judged verdicts, biggest headroom first. Each line quotes what the judge found missing; shipping it (or evidencing it publicly) is the fix.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productDelegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the product
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 45
Kintsugi's evidence only describes an MCP server that lets external AI assistants read its API documentation for developers building integrations (kintsugi-docs-6, kintsugi-probe-3) — this is not a built-in assistant inside the product that end users can delegate tasks to.
Automation depth — how much of the product can run unattendedDefine rules that trigger actions automatically on events
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
Kintsugi is a sales-tax compliance API with connectors, SDKs, and an MCP server for documentation access, but there is no evidence of a rules engine or event-triggered automation system where users define conditional actions on events.
Global vat — stories about global vat in this arenaVAT and GST are covered like US sales tax — EU OSS/IOSS, UK, Canada, Australia and beyond, with foreign registration thresholds tracked and filings supported
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
The evidence pack only describes US-style sales tax nexus, registration, and filing APIs (with generic "Country" fields) but never mentions VAT, GST, EU OSS/IOSS, or specific UK/Canada/Australia regimes, so there is no proof Kintsugi extends its compliance engine to international VAT/GST obligations.
Openness — open source, data portability, and self-hosting storiesExport all of my data in open formats and leave
nonemoves PA Scoreimpact 30
No evidence of any data export feature, open-format export, or account portability tooling; the only migration-related content describes importing from Avalara/TaxJar into Kintsugi, not exporting out.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productGet AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the product
nonemoves Built-in AIimpact 30
Kintsugi's evidence shows nexus/threshold determination logic and an MCP server aimed at helping developers build integrations with accurate API docs, not AI-generated insights or suggestions surfaced to end users from their own data.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productUse an official CLI
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30
Kintsugi offers SDKs, REST API, and an MCP server for docs access, but no evidence of an official CLI tool being published or documented anywhere in the evidence pack.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productSubscribe to events via webhooks
nonemoves agent-readyimpact 30
No evidence pack item mentions webhooks, event subscriptions, or push notifications; Kintsugi's documented integration model is REST API/SDK polling and connector sync, not event-driven webhooks.
Agenticness — how well agents can access and operate the productRely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policy
nonemoves API qualityimpact 30
Missing: explicit API version numbering/headers, a deprecation/sunset policy document, changelog or migration guidance for breaking changes.
Showing the top 8 of 42 — every none/partial verdict in the story verdicts table is headroom.
Think a verdict is wrong? Every verdicts-table row has a Flag link — see the methodology.
Coverage map — which docs area, API section, or community source covers which judged storiesCoverage map6 surfaces · 29 covered stories
Where the cited evidence behind each covered verdict came from — the same citations the verdicts table shows, no extra judging.
docs21 stories
- Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Connect an agent via an official MCP server
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agent
- Build against official SDKs
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Operate the product with natural-language commands
- Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
- Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)
- Exemption and resale certificates are managed end to end — collected from customers, validated, stored with expiry tracking, and applied automatically at calculation time
- Mark a customer or transaction exempt through the API — with the exemption reason carried through calculation, reporting, and the filed return
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- The product gets the hard cases right — SaaS taxability that differs by state, digital-goods rules, and bundled offerings — with the research behind each determination visible
- Map my catalog to the vendor's tax categories — SaaS, digital goods, services, physical products — so each line item is taxed by what it is, in every jurisdiction it sells
- An agent can read my tax posture — nexus status, registrations, accrued liability, upcoming filings — and act on it through the API or an MCP surface with scoped credentials
- Calculate the right sales tax for a transaction through an API in real time — address-level (rooftop) accuracy, not ZIP-code approximations — fast enough to sit inside checkout
- There are maintained integrations for my revenue stack — billing systems, payment processors, and commerce platforms feed transactions in without me building the plumbing
- Rate and rule changes across thousands of jurisdictions are the vendor's job — updates land automatically, are documented when they take effect, and never require me to redeploy
- Every calculation is reconstructable — the rate, rules, address resolution, and product category that produced each transaction's tax, retained and exportable for an audit
- See accrued liability by jurisdiction at any moment — collected versus owed, filing-ready detail, and exports my accountant and GL can consume
API reference15 stories
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Exemption and resale certificates are managed end to end — collected from customers, validated, stored with expiry tracking, and applied automatically at calculation time
- Mark a customer or transaction exempt through the API — with the exemption reason carried through calculation, reporting, and the filed return
- Returns are prepared, filed, and remitted automatically in every registered jurisdiction — on time, with the vendor's guarantee covering penalties if it files late
- See the whole filing picture — a calendar of upcoming returns, per-filing status, the amounts remitted, and downloadable confirmations for every return submitted
- Import my historical transactions and see where I already owe — a backdated exposure analysis with estimated liability, penalties, and interest per jurisdiction
- The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not after
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- An agent can read my tax posture — nexus status, registrations, accrued liability, upcoming filings — and act on it through the API or an MCP surface with scoped credentials
- Registering for a sales tax permit is handled in-product — the vendor files state and local registrations on my behalf with transparent per-registration pricing and status tracking
- Past-due exposure has a remediation path — voluntary disclosure agreements or back-filing support to clean up jurisdictions where I should have been collecting
- Every calculation is reconstructable — the rate, rules, address resolution, and product category that produced each transaction's tax, retained and exportable for an audit
- See accrued liability by jurisdiction at any moment — collected versus owed, filing-ready detail, and exports my accountant and GL can consume
docs.trykintsugi.com14 stories
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Build against official SDKs
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Perform bulk operations across many items at once
- Import my historical transactions and see where I already owe — a backdated exposure analysis with estimated liability, penalties, and interest per jurisdiction
- The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not after
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Map my catalog to the vendor's tax categories — SaaS, digital goods, services, physical products — so each line item is taxed by what it is, in every jurisdiction it sells
- An agent can read my tax posture — nexus status, registrations, accrued liability, upcoming filings — and act on it through the API or an MCP surface with scoped credentials
- There are maintained integrations for my revenue stack — billing systems, payment processors, and commerce platforms feed transactions in without me building the plumbing
- Past-due exposure has a remediation path — voluntary disclosure agreements or back-filing support to clean up jurisdictions where I should have been collecting
- Transactions from every channel can be imported — API backfills and connector syncs from other processors and storefronts — so filings cover my whole business, not just one integration
- See accrued liability by jurisdiction at any moment — collected versus owed, filing-ready detail, and exports my accountant and GL can consume
OpenAPI spec7 stories
- Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Build against official SDKs
- Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examples
- Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)
- Do everything through the API that I can do in the UI
- Transactions from every channel can be imported — API backfills and connector syncs from other processors and storefronts — so filings cover my whole business, not just one integration
trykintsugi.com7 stories
- Set up automations that run autonomously in the background
- Returns are prepared, filed, and remitted automatically in every registered jurisdiction — on time, with the vendor's guarantee covering penalties if it files late
- Import my historical transactions and see where I already owe — a backdated exposure analysis with estimated liability, penalties, and interest per jurisdiction
- The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not after
- Rate and rule changes across thousands of jurisdictions are the vendor's job — updates land automatically, are documented when they take effect, and never require me to redeploy
- Registering for a sales tax permit is handled in-product — the vendor files state and local registrations on my behalf with transparent per-registration pricing and status tracking
- Past-due exposure has a remediation path — voluntary disclosure agreements or back-filing support to clean up jurisdictions where I should have been collecting
llms.txt4 stories
- Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docs
- Run the product headlessly / in CI for automation
- Drive the product through a documented public API
- Calculate the right sales tax for a transaction through an API in real time — address-level (rooftop) accuracy, not ZIP-code approximations — fast enough to sit inside checkout
Probe proofs — replayable recordings from the probe harnessProbe proofs
Replayable recordings from our probe harness — see the Prove-It protocol to submit one.
$curl -s -X POST https://api.trykintsugi.com/v1/tax/estimate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' # keyless → documented 422 header contractreproduced$ curl -s -X POST https://api.trykintsugi.com/v1/tax/estimate -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{}' # [redacted]less → documented 422 header contract
{"detail":[{"type":"missing","loc":["header","x-organization-id"],"msg":"Field required","input":null,"ctx":{}},{"type":"missing","loc":["body","date"
$curl -sL https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt | head -3reproduced$ curl -sL https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt | head -3 # Kintsugi Developer Docs > Automated sales tax compliance, by API. Calculate tax, sync transactions and customers, manage registrations and nexus, and file returns. This file indexes the developer documentation and the Customer API reference.
$curl -s -X POST https://docs.trykintsugi.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>' # keyless initialize completes with serverInforeproduced$ curl -s -X POST https://docs.trykintsugi.com/mcp -H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '<jsonrpc initialize>' # [redacted]less initialize completes with serverInfo
"serverInfo":{"name":"kintsugi","version":"1.0.0"}
Claims vs evidence — vendor claims reconciled against independent verdictsClaims vs evidence
5 of 14 testable claims verified · 0 contradicted → integrity 36/100
15 distinct capability claims found in Kintsugi’s own claimed-docs/GitHub materials, reconciled against our judge’s independent verdicts.
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Verified
9
Unverified
0
Contradicted
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Undersold
Verified (5)
“Provides a REST API and official SDKs for building custom integrations”
Drive the product through a documented public APIfullproof ↗
“Provides an MCP server giving AI assistants direct access to Kintsugi's API documentation for building integrations”
“Tax estimate API endpoint prices sales tax before payment is taken, suitable for checkout flows”
Calculate the right sales tax for a transaction through an API in real time — address-level (rooftop) accuracy, not ZIP-code approximations — fast enough to sit inside checkoutpartialproof ↗
“Publishes five official SDKs (Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP, Ruby) generated from the same OpenAPI spec”
“API endpoint returns a list of all nexuses for the organization”
An agent can read my tax posture — nexus status, registrations, accrued liability, upcoming filings — and act on it through the API or an MCP surface with scoped credentialspartialproof ↗
Unverified (11)
“Offers dozens of prebuilt connectors for shopping carts, billing systems, ERPs, and accounting platforms that sync transactions automatically”
There are maintained integrations for my revenue stack — billing systems, payment processors, and commerce platforms feed transactions in without me building the plumbingpartialproof ↗
“Determines nexus by analyzing transactions from the prior full calendar year through today to find when a filing obligation began”
The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not afterpartialproof ↗
“Collects business presence info (offices, employees, inventory) to assess physical nexus exposure”
The product watches my economic nexus exposure — tracking sales and transaction counts against every state and country threshold and alerting me before I cross one, not afterpartialproof ↗
“API keys can be created with configurable expiration windows (never, 1 month, 6 months, 1 year)”
Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentpartialproof ↗
“Classifies every product into a category and subcategory that determines how it's taxed across jurisdictions”
Map my catalog to the vendor's tax categories — SaaS, digital goods, services, physical products — so each line item is taxed by what it is, in every jurisdiction it sellspartialproof ↗
“Create Registration API lets users create and track tax registrations across multiple jurisdictions”
Registering for a sales tax permit is handled in-product — the vendor files state and local registrations on my behalf with transparent per-registration pricing and status trackingpartialproof ↗
“Get Filings API retrieves a paginated list of filings filterable by date, jurisdiction, country, and status”
See the whole filing picture — a calendar of upcoming returns, per-filing status, the amounts remitted, and downloadable confirmations for every return submittedpartialproof ↗
“Create Exemption API lets developers create exemption records with type, jurisdiction, and validity dates”
Mark a customer or transaction exempt through the API — with the exemption reason carried through calculation, reporting, and the filed returnpartialproof ↗
“Finds unknown tax exposure, registers the business, and files returns everywhere it sells, backed by human support”
Import my historical transactions and see where I already owe — a backdated exposure analysis with estimated liability, penalties, and interest per jurisdictionpartialproof ↗
“Finds unknown tax exposure, registers the business, and files returns everywhere it sells, backed by human support”
Registering for a sales tax permit is handled in-product — the vendor files state and local registrations on my behalf with transparent per-registration pricing and status trackingpartialproof ↗
“Finds unknown tax exposure, registers the business, and files returns everywhere it sells, backed by human support”
Returns are prepared, filed, and remitted automatically in every registered jurisdiction — on time, with the vendor's guarantee covering penalties if it files latepartialproof ↗
Undersold (14)
Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsfullproof ↗
Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationpartialproof ↗
Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundpartialproof ↗
Operate the product with natural-language commandspartialproof ↗
Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplespartialproof ↗
Perform bulk operations across many items at oncepartialproof ↗
Exemption and resale certificates are managed end to end — collected from customers, validated, stored with expiry tracking, and applied automatically at calculation timepartialproof ↗
Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIpartialproof ↗
The product gets the hard cases right — SaaS taxability that differs by state, digital-goods rules, and bundled offerings — with the research behind each determination visiblepartialproof ↗
Rate and rule changes across thousands of jurisdictions are the vendor's job — updates land automatically, are documented when they take effect, and never require me to redeploypartialproof ↗
Past-due exposure has a remediation path — voluntary disclosure agreements or back-filing support to clean up jurisdictions where I should have been collectingpartialproof ↗
Every calculation is reconstructable — the rate, rules, address resolution, and product category that produced each transaction's tax, retained and exportable for an auditpartialproof ↗
Transactions from every channel can be imported — API backfills and connector syncs from other processors and storefronts — so filings cover my whole business, not just one integrationpartialproof ↗
See accrued liability by jurisdiction at any moment — collected versus owed, filing-ready detail, and exports my accountant and GL can consumepartialproof ↗
Claims outside our story set (1)
Real capability claims found in Kintsugi’s own materials, but no story in this arena’s taxonomy covers them yet — that’s feedback on the taxonomy, not a mark against the product.
“Offers a defined migration path for switching from another tax provider, reduced to mapping a handful of concerns”
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Business model
Published: Free tier ($0) covers nexus and exposure monitoring, AI categorization, and the Kin assistant; Starter is $75 per filing or registration with no onboarding or transaction fees; Premium (multi-country, API/SDK/SSO) is custom.
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