aid: helaina
name: Helaina
description: >-
  Helaina is a New York based biotechnology and nutrition company that uses precision fermentation
  to produce bio-identical human proteins. Its flagship ingredient, effera(R), is described by the
  company as the world's first bio-identical human lactoferrin, designed to match the lactoferrin
  naturally found in mother's milk and in the human body rather than being extracted from cow's
  milk. Helaina sells effera(R) as a business-to-business ingredient to supplement and nutrition
  formulators across women's health, gut health, longevity, hair and skin, active nutrition, and
  infant and child nutrition, and has announced a partnership with Nestle to advance science-based
  early-life nutrition. Helaina is an ingredient manufacturer, not a software vendor: it publishes
  no public API, developer portal, SDK, or machine-readable API specification. The only
  machine-readable surface it publishes is an llms.txt at its website root, alongside a robots.txt
  that explicitly allows AI answer engines.
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/68b06b5fe51094ae5260962f/68c880229a68ffee8db183a0_OGD.webp
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/helaina/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: no-public-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-22'
modified: '2026-08-22'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Nutrition
- Precision Fermentation
- Food Ingredients
- Life Sciences
- Consumer Health
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/helaina-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.myhelaina.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.myhelaina.com/blog/list
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.myhelaina.com/terms-conditions
- type: ContactUs
  url: https://www.myhelaina.com/partner-up
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/helaina/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/helaina-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-22'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: >-
    Helaina is a precision-fermentation ingredient manufacturer whose product is a physical protein
    (effera(R) human lactoferrin) sold B2B to supplement formulators, so there is nothing to expose
    as an API; its entire web presence is an 18-URL Webflow marketing site with no developer, docs,
    login, or store subdomain resolving in DNS.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.myhelaina.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.myhelaina.com/api
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.myhelaina.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://developer.myhelaina.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://www.myhelaina.com/llms.txt
    status: 200
  checked: '2026-08-22'