generated: '2026-09-04'
method: searched
source: https://apigovernance.dev/ + https://perfai.ai/llms.txt + https://github.com/PerfAI-Inc
provider: APIGovernance.Dev
providerId: apigovernance-dev
parentCompany: PerfAI, Inc. (trading as Perfai Security, perfai.ai)
description: >-
  Lifecycle record for APIGovernance.Dev. The finding of this pass is that the product
  is legacy: its parent company has repositioned away from API governance and now sells a
  different product under a different name, while the APIGovernance.Dev marketing site is
  still served and still sells plans.
status: legacy
statusDetail: >-
  APIGovernance.Dev is one of seven single-purpose product domains PerfAI, Inc. cross-links
  from the apigovernance.dev footer (apiprivacy.com, apicontract.dev, apiperformance.dev,
  apirelease.dev, apiversion.dev, apitests.dev, apigovernance.dev). The parent company's own
  machine-readable statement of record now disclaims that whole line.
signals:
  - signal: parent-repositioning
    detail: >-
      https://perfai.ai/llms.txt states verbatim: "The company was previously known as
      PerfAI.ai, an API security and performance testing platform. That positioning is
      outdated. The company is now Perfai Security (always written 'Perfai Security',
      never 'PerfAI'), focused exclusively on autonomous application security for AI-native
      and vibe-coded apps. Disregard older descriptions referencing API performance
      testing, governance scoring, or privacy validation as the primary product."
    url: https://perfai.ai/llms.txt
    status: 200
    observed: '2026-09-04'
  - signal: application-host-unreachable
    detail: >-
      The only functional call to action on apigovernance.dev — "Get Started" / "Sign in" /
      "Start Free Trial" — points at https://app.apigovernance.dev/home#signup. That host
      resolves (A 52.173.146.108) but does not complete a TCP connection on port 443; every
      HTTP probe timed out. A visitor who clicks the buy button cannot reach the product.
    url: https://app.apigovernance.dev/home
    status: 0
    observed: '2026-09-04'
  - signal: marketing-site-still-live-and-selling
    detail: >-
      apigovernance.dev itself returns HTTP 200 with a complete Builder.io-authored
      marketing page that still lists three purchasable tiers (Startup Essentials $0/mo,
      Growth $199/mo, Enterprise custom) and a 2026 copyright line. It also still carries an
      unreplaced "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet" placeholder paragraph under "Key Benefits to
      Business", and its own footer link to /privacy-policy returns HTTP 404.
    url: https://apigovernance.dev/
    status: 200
    observed: '2026-09-04'
  - signal: engineering-moved-to-the-successor-product
    detail: >-
      The PerfAI, Inc. GitHub organization retains two public repositories. The CI/CD
      integration the Growth plan advertises was PerfAI-Inc/PerfAI-Action; that repository
      was renamed on 2026-08-07 to PerfAI-Inc/Perfai-Security and rescoped to the successor
      product ("Perfai - Autonomous Security for AI-built Apps"). Its action.yml now triggers
      a security scan against api.perfai.ai, not a governance review. The second repository,
      PingLambda, is archived. No governance-era repository remains.
    url: https://github.com/PerfAI-Inc
    status: 200
    observed: '2026-09-04'
versioning:
  scheme: none published
  policy: null
  note: APIGovernance.Dev publishes no API, and therefore no API versioning policy.
deprecation:
  policy_published: false
  sunset_header: null
  deprecation_header: null
  note: >-
    No deprecation or sunset policy is published, and no formal end-of-life notice for
    APIGovernance.Dev has been issued. The product is being retired by attrition rather than
    by announcement: the positioning is disclaimed on the parent's own site while the
    storefront keeps selling. NO Deprecation POINTER IS EMITTED — the provider publishes no
    deprecation policy; this artifact records our observation, not their commitment.
status_page:
  published: false
  url: null
  note: >-
    No status page was found on apigovernance.dev or any PerfAI, Inc. host, and no
    status.* subdomain is advertised. NO StatusPage POINTER IS EMITTED.
sla:
  published: false
  note: The Enterprise tier is quote-only; no SLA document is published.
support:
  channels:
    - name: Documentation & Tickets
      tiers: [Startup Essentials]
    - name: Tickets & Calls
      tiers: [Growth, Enterprise]
    - name: Book a Demo
      url: https://calendly.com/perfai/20-mins
      status: 200
  note: Support channels are named on the pricing table; no help desk URL is published.
successor:
  name: Perfai Security
  url: https://perfai.ai
  docs: https://docs.perfai.ai
  note: >-
    NOT PROFILED HERE, AND DELIBERATELY NOT HARVESTED INTO THIS REPO. Perfai Security is a
    different product with its own brand, domain and contract: a real OpenAPI 3.1.1 at
    https://docs.perfai.ai/api-reference/openapi.yaml whose info.title is "Perfai Security
    API" and whose servers[] is https://api.perfai.ai/v1; a conformant A2A agent card at
    https://docs.perfai.ai/.well-known/agent-card.json whose name and provider.organization
    are both "Perfai Security"; an MCP server; an llms.txt; and a changelog. None of it names
    API governance, and the parent's llms.txt expressly tells readers to disregard the
    governance positioning. Attributing that contract to APIGovernance.Dev would be the
    sibling-product misattribution this pipeline forbids (roadmap#52). It is recorded here as
    a lead for a separate perfai-security company profile, not as this company's API.
maintainers:
  - FN: Kin Lane
    email: info@apievangelist.com