# Gro Intelligence

> DEFUNCT. Gro Intelligence was an agricultural and climate data company (New York / Nairobi,
> founded 2014 by Sara Menker) that operated a read-only REST API over a normalized ontology of
> agricultural, climate and trade time series. The company ceased operations in spring 2024 and its
> IP was acquired by Almanac (formerly Semios) in November 2024. The API host
> (api.gro-intelligence.com), the developer portal (developers.gro-intelligence.com) and the web
> application (app.gro-intelligence.com) all return NXDOMAIN as of 2026-08-22, and the primary
> domain gro-intelligence.com is a parked registrar lander that answers HTTP 200 to every path.
> There is no callable endpoint and no way to obtain a credential. This file is a historical record
> assembled by API Evangelist from the company's still-public GitHub organization and package
> registry listings — do not attempt to call this API.

## Status

- [Company status: defunct](https://agfundernews.com/breaking-ag-insights-platform-gro-intelligence-is-closing-down): Ceased operations spring 2024 after a 60% layoff in March 2024.
- [IP acquired by Almanac](https://agfundernews.com/almanac-acquires-gro-intelligence-ip-to-deliver-actionable-insights-across-the-global-agricultural-sector): Asset purchase out of liquidation, November 2024. No Gro-branded API surface transferred.
- API base URL as published: https://api.gro-intelligence.com/v2 (NXDOMAIN — not callable)

## What survives

- [GitHub organization](https://github.com/gro-intelligence): Still public.
- [Official API client source](https://github.com/gro-intelligence/api-client): MIT licensed, Python + an unpublished R client. Last commit 2024-04-01.
- [Python SDK on PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/groclient/): groclient 1.369.1, published 2024-01-31. Still installable; wraps a dead host.
- [Python SDK on conda-forge](https://anaconda.org/conda-forge/groclient): 1.369.1.
- [Documentation mirror](https://gro.readthedocs.io/): The surviving Sphinx build of the client reference. The canonical portal is gone.
- [Release history](https://github.com/gro-intelligence/api-client/releases): Dated releases through v1.369.1 (2024-01-31).

## The API surface, as it was

Read-only. Every operation was an HTTP GET under /v2/, authenticated with `authorization: Bearer <token>`.

- Ontology lookup: /v2/metrics, /v2/items, /v2/regions, /v2/frequencies, /v2/sources, /v2/units
- Ontology discovery: /v2/entities/list, /v2/search, /v2/top/{entity_type}
- Series discovery: /v2/data_series/list, /v2/stream/data_series/list
- Availability: /v2/available/sources, /v2/available/time-frequencies
- Units: /v2/units/allowed
- Geography: /v2/geocentres
- Data plane: /v2/data, /v2prime/data

## Profile artifacts

- [Authentication](authentication/gro-intelligence-authentication.yml): Bearer token, GROAPI_TOKEN.
- [Rate limits](rate-limits/gro-intelligence-rate-limits.yml): Client-side throttle of 10 queries/second; no server-side limit or headers ever documented.
- [Error catalog](errors/gro-intelligence-problem-types.yml): Derived from the client's status-code handling. Not RFC 9457.
- [Conventions](conventions/gro-intelligence-conventions.yml): Read-only; idempotency, dry-run and reversibility all N/A.
- [Data model](data-model/gro-intelligence-data-model.yml): Six ontology entities plus a composite-keyed series/point fact table.
- [Lifecycle](lifecycle/gro-intelligence-lifecycle.yml): Retirement record and evidence.
- [Changelog](changelog/gro-intelligence-changelog.yml): SDK release history through 2024-01-31.
- [Packages](packages/gro-intelligence-packages.yml): Python, conda-forge, unpublished R client.
- [CLI](cli/gro-intelligence-cli.yml): gro_client.
- [Conformance](conformance/gro-intelligence-conformance.yml): No cross-cutting or domain standard adopted.
- [Domain security](security/gro-intelligence-domain-security.yml): Parked domain with no SPF, DMARC, CAA or DNSSEC.
- [Well-known probe](well-known/gro-intelligence-well-known.yml): No discovery document served; host is a catch-all.

## What was never published

No OpenAPI, Swagger, GraphQL SDL, AsyncAPI, WSDL or Protobuf definition was ever published by
Gro Intelligence. No MCP server, no A2A agent card, no webhooks, no status page, no deprecation
policy, no public pricing. The machine-readable record above is derived from the company's own
client library, which is the closest thing to a contract that exists.