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How Kintsugi’s scores are calculated

The full audit trail, recomputed from the verdict data at build time through the same code that produced the leaderboard: verdict × quality × story weight per cell, cells sum to dimension scores, dimensions blend into the PA Score. Every number on the product page is reproducible from this page alone; for why the formula looks like this, see the methodology.

verdict factors: full ×1.0 · partial ×0.6 · disputed ×0.3 · none ×0.0 · n/a excluded from both sides · cell points = weight × quality × factor · cell max = weight × 10

PA Score20/100

Agent-ready 43.8 × 0.30 = 13.14

API quality 9.4 × 0.20 = 1.88

Openness 14.4 × 0.20 = 2.88

Built-in AI 10.7 × 0.15 = 1.60

Automation 5.1 × 0.15 = 0.76

(13.14 + 1.88 + 2.88 + 1.60 + 0.76) ÷ (0.30 + 0.20 + 0.20 + 0.15 + 0.15) = 20.27 ÷ 1.00 = 20.3

Scores are stored to 1 decimal; the product page’s pills round to whole numbers for display. Each dimension below shows the stories, verdicts, and cited evidence behind its number.

Agent-ready43.8/100×0.30 of the PA blend

Outside-in: can YOUR agent reach and drive this product — API, MCP, CLI, headless runs, agent docs.

Point an agent at llms.txt or agent-oriented docsweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt # Kintsugi Developer Docs > Automated sales tax compliance, by API. Calculate tax, sync transactions and customers, man”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Run the product headlessly / in CI for automationweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/getting-started/creating-and-managing-api-keys“Choose when the key should expire: Never, One Month, Six Month, or One Year.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt # Kintsugi Developer Docs > Automated sales tax compliance, by API. Calculate tax, sync transactions and customers, man”

Plug MCP servers into this product so it can use their toolsweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Connect an agent via an official MCP serverweight 3

3 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 10.8 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Use an official CLIweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Drive the product through a documented public APIweight 3

3 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 24.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/api-guides/sales-tax-calculations“The tax estimate endpoint (POST /v1/tax/estimate) prices sales tax before you take payment.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-nexus-for-org“Get a list of all nexuses for the organization.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/create-registration“The Create Registration API allows users to create a new registration for tracking and managing tax filings efficiently across multiple jurisdictions.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-filings“The Get Filings API retrieves a paginated list of filings based on filters such as dates, jurisdiction, Country, status, etc.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/create-exemption“The Create Exemption API allows you to create a new exemption record. This includes defining details such as exemption type, jurisdiction, Country, State, validity dates, etc.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/getting-started/creating-and-managing-api-keys“Choose when the key should expire: Never, One Month, Six Month, or One Year.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt“PROBE llms.txt: HTTP 200 at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/llms.txt # Kintsugi Developer Docs > Automated sales tax compliance, by API. Calculate tax, sync transactions and customers, man”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Issue scoped/least-privilege API credentials for an agentweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/getting-started/creating-and-managing-api-keys“Choose when the key should expire: Never, One Month, Six Month, or One Year.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”

Build against official SDKsweight 2

2 (weight) × 8 (quality) × 1.0 (full) = 16.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Subscribe to events via webhooksweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Agent-ready = 78.8 ÷ 180 × 100 = 43.8

API quality9.4/100×0.20 of the PA blend

The programmable surface once an agent is there — machine-readable spec, interactive docs, sandbox, versioning discipline.

Explore an interactive API reference with runnable examplesweight 2

2 (weight) × 4 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 4.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-nexus-for-org“Get a list of all nexuses for the organization.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/create-registration“The Create Registration API allows users to create a new registration for tracking and managing tax filings efficiently across multiple jurisdictions.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-filings“The Get Filings API retrieves a paginated list of filings based on filters such as dates, jurisdiction, Country, status, etc.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/create-exemption“The Create Exemption API allows you to create a new exemption record. This includes defining details such as exemption type, jurisdiction, Country, State, validity dates, etc.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Download a machine-readable API spec (OpenAPI or equivalent)weight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.3 (disputed) = 1.8 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Test against a sandbox environment without touching production dataweight 1

1 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 10 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Rely on versioned APIs with a documented deprecation policyweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

API quality = 6.6 ÷ 70 × 100 = 9.4

Openness14.4/100×0.20 of the PA blend

Can you leave, inspect, or self-host — data export, open source, portability.

Do everything through the API that I can do in the UIweight 2

2 (weight) × 6 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 7.2 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/api-guides/sales-tax-calculations“The tax estimate endpoint (POST /v1/tax/estimate) prices sales tax before you take payment.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/sdks/overview“Five official SDKs. Python, TypeScript, Java, PHP and Ruby, each published to its language's package registry and generated from the same OpenAPI spec that produces this API reference.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-nexus-for-org“Get a list of all nexuses for the organization.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/create-registration“The Create Registration API allows users to create a new registration for tracking and managing tax filings efficiently across multiple jurisdictions.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-filings“The Get Filings API retrieves a paginated list of filings based on filters such as dates, jurisdiction, Country, status, etc.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/create-exemption“The Create Exemption API allows you to create a new exemption record. This includes defining details such as exemption type, jurisdiction, Country, State, validity dates, etc.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json“PROBE openapi: all candidate paths 404 (https://docs.trykintsugi.com/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/swagger.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/api/openapi.json, https://docs.trykintsugi.com/.well-known/openapi.json)”

Export all of my data in open formats and leaveweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Read the product's source under an open licenseweight 2

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Self-host the core productweight 3

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Openness = 7.2 ÷ 50 × 100 = 14.4

Built-in AI10.7/100×0.15 of the PA blend

Inside-out: how agentic the product itself is for its users — built-in assistants, autonomous features.

Get AI-generated insights and suggestions from my data inside the productweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Send transactions covering the previous full calendar year through today. Kintsugi determines nexus by looking back across that window, so without it we cannot tell you when you crossed a threshold or when your filing obligation began.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Set up automations that run autonomously in the backgroundweight 2

2 (weight) × 5 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 6.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Dozens of prebuilt connectors cover shopping carts, billing systems, ERPs, and accounting platforms. Pick your platform, authorize it once, and Kintsugi keeps transactions in sync from then on.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://trykintsugi.com“Kintsugi finds the exposure you didn’t know you had, registers you, and files everywhere you sell with real people to support you whenever needed.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Delegate tasks to a built-in AI assistant inside the productweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Operate the product with natural-language commandsweight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Built-in AI = 9.6 ÷ 90 × 100 = 10.7

Automation5.1/100×0.15 of the PA blend

Depth of automation primitives — rules, scheduling, bulk operations, webhooks.

Perform bulk operations across many items at onceweight 2

2 (weight) × 3 (quality) × 0.6 (partial) = 3.6 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Send transactions covering the previous full calendar year through today. Kintsugi determines nexus by looking back across that window, so without it we cannot tell you when you crossed a threshold or when your filing obligation began.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-nexus-for-org“Get a list of all nexuses for the organization.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/reference/get-filings“The Get Filings API retrieves a paginated list of filings based on filters such as dates, jurisdiction, Country, status, etc.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”

Define rules that trigger actions automatically on eventsweight 3

3 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 30 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Build against the REST API or an official SDK. Start with Planning an Integration to choose your integration level, then Syncing Transaction Records for the payload shape.”

Schedule recurring jobs or workflowsweight 2

2 (weight) × 0 (quality) × 0.0 (none) = 0.0 of 20 max

  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com“Dozens of prebuilt connectors cover shopping carts, billing systems, ERPs, and accounting platforms. Pick your platform, authorize it once, and Kintsugi keeps transactions in sync from then on.”
  • [claimed-docs] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“Kintsugi's MCP server gives AI assistants direct access to our API documentation, making it easier for developers to build integrations with accurate, up-to-date code examples.”
  • [probe] https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started“official MCP server documented at https://docs.trykintsugi.com/docs/mcp/getting-started”

Version, review, and roll back my automationsweight 1

n/a — not applicable to this product: excluded from numerator and denominator

no evidence cited — the verdict rests on absence of evidence, re-checked on refresh

Automation = 3.6 ÷ 70 × 100 = 5.1