aid: automatic
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/automatic.png
name: Automatic
description: >-
  Automatic (Automatic Labs, Inc.) was a San Francisco connected-car company founded in 2011
  by Thejo Kote and Jerry Jariyasunant. Its OBD-II adapter and companion mobile app turned
  almost any car built since 1996 into a connected car, adding trip logging, fuel and MPG
  tracking, engine-light diagnostics, parking recall, and automatic crash alerts. Automatic
  ran a public developer platform at developer.automatic.com built around three surfaces: a
  REST API exposing trip, user, and vehicle data; an Events API delivering real-time driving
  events such as ignition on/off, hard braking, acceleration, speeding, and location changes
  over webhooks and websockets; and a private-beta Streaming SDK that read raw OBD-II data
  from the second-generation adapter over Bluetooth. SiriusXM acquired the company on
  2017-04-27 for approximately $115 million, and all operations were shut down on 2020-05-28.
  THIS COMPANY IS DEFUNCT — no API, developer portal, or documentation remains online, and
  the automatic.com domain now belongs to the unrelated company Automattic. This profile is
  retained as a historical record of a notable connected-car API platform.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/automatic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- anthemis
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-sunset-date: '2020-05-28'
x-acquired-by: SiriusXM
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Automotive
- Connected Car
- Telematics
- Internet of Things
- Vehicle Data
- OBD-II
- Defunct
apis: []
common:
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/automatic-lifecycle.yml
- type: Packages
  name: Packages
  url: packages/automatic-packages.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: LLMs.txt
  url: llms/automatic-llms.txt
- type: GitHubOrganization
  name: GitHub Organization
  url: https://github.com/Automatic
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
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