aid: intrinsic
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/intrinsic.png
name: Intrinsic
description: >-
  Intrinsic is a unified Trust & Safety platform that gives safety teams a single
  API and dashboard to detect, investigate, and enforce against abuse across
  user- and AI-generated content, fraud, and marketplace abuse. The platform
  surfaces machine-learning classifiers (for example text toxicity and IP trust
  scoring), account graph lineage for linkage analysis, geo enrichers, and global
  intelligence signals through a synchronous API, and lets teams author, version,
  deploy, and monitor real-time anti-abuse rules from a hosted dashboard. Founded
  in 2022 in San Francisco by Karine Mellata and Michael Lin (previously on Trust
  & Safety ML and data-engineering infrastructure at Apple and Discord), Intrinsic
  has since rebranded to Variance (variance.co); the Intrinsic-branded developer
  surfaces at docs.intrinsicapi.com and api.intrinsicapi.com remain in service.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/intrinsic/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-rebranded-to: Variance
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Trust and Safety
- Content Moderation
- Anti-Abuse
- Fraud Detection
- Machine Learning
- Risk Intelligence
- API
apis:
- name: Intrinsic API
  description: >-
    Unified Trust & Safety API exposing ML classifiers, enrichments, account
    graph lineage, and real-time rule evaluation for anti-abuse workflows.
    Access is gated behind an issued API key; developer documentation requires
    a request-access code.
  humanURL: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
  baseURL: https://api.intrinsicapi.com
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/getting-started/welcome
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://withintrinsic.com
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://docs.intrinsicapi.com/
- type: SecurityTxt
  url: well-known/intrinsic-security.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/intrinsic-well-known.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/intrinsic-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/intrinsic-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/intrinsic-domain-security.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence