# Automatic (Automatic Labs, Inc.)

> DEFUNCT. Automatic Labs was a San Francisco connected-car company (founded 2011 by Thejo
> Kote and Jerry Jariyasunant) whose OBD-II adapter and mobile app turned any car built since
> 1996 into a connected car. It ran the Automatic Developer Platform — a REST API for trip and
> vehicle data, an Events API delivering driving events over webhooks and websockets, and a
> private-beta Bluetooth Streaming SDK for raw OBD-II data. SiriusXM acquired the company on
> 2017-04-27 for approximately $115M; all operations ceased on 2020-05-28. No API, developer
> portal, or documentation remains online, and the automatic.com domain now belongs to
> Automattic. This profile is a historical record only.

## Status

- Company status: defunct (shut down 2020-05-28)
- API status: retired — no live host, no OpenAPI or AsyncAPI ever recovered
- Domain: automatic.com no longer belongs to this company (redirects to automattic.com)

## Repository artifacts

- [Lifecycle](lifecycle/automatic-lifecycle.yml): acquisition, shutdown, and the archived historical API surface
- [Packages](packages/automatic-packages.yml): the one surviving first-party npm package plus retired SDK languages

## Historical references

- [Archived developer portal (2019-10-06)](http://web.archive.org/web/20191006121606/https://developer.automatic.com/)
- [SiriusXM acquisition announcement (2017-04-27)](https://investor.siriusxm.com/news-events/press-releases/detail/1777/siriusxm-acquires-automatic-labs-inc)
- [Shutdown coverage (2020-05-01)](https://9to5mac.com/2020/05/01/automatic-labs-shutting-down/)
- [GitHub archive organization](https://github.com/Automatic)

## Notes for agents

- Do not attempt to call any api.automatic.com or developer.automatic.com endpoint; the hosts
  no longer serve this company.
- Do not confuse Automatic (Automatic Labs, connected car) with Automattic (WordPress.com).