generated: '2026-07-19'
method: searched
source: https://www.lateral.io
status: sunset
summary: >-
  Lateral was permanently shut down on 26 June 2025. New signups are closed, the
  application host and API/documentation hosts no longer resolve, and the company
  directed users to a successor open-source research platform at coordination.network.
sunset:
  date: '2025-06-26'
  announced_on: https://www.lateral.io
  new_signups: closed
  successor: https://www.coordination.network
  successor_access: https://form.typeform.com/to/P0jnl7HK
versioning:
  scheme: unknown
  docs: null
  note: The API reference at lateral.io/docs/api/ and lateral.io/docs/text-matching/api-reference
    redirected to docs.lateral.io, which no longer resolves (NXDOMAIN).
deprecation:
  policy_url: null
  sunset_header: false
  note: No published deprecation policy or RFC 8594 Sunset header support was found;
    the entire product was retired outright.
sla:
  url: null
  uptime_target: null
status_page: null
retired_hosts:
- host: api.lateral.io
  result: NXDOMAIN
- host: docs.lateral.io
  result: NXDOMAIN
- host: app.lateral.io
  result: NXDOMAIN
historical_api:
  name: Lateral Conceptual Text-Matching / Recommendation API
  described_by: client library READMEs at https://github.com/lateral/lateral-py and
    https://github.com/lateral/recommender-gem
  authentication: API key supplied to the client constructor
  capabilities:
  - Insert documents into a personal corpus
  - Recommend similar documents by text
  - Recommend similar documents by stored document id
  - Query pre-populated corpora (arXiv, PubMed, Wikipedia, news, SEC filings)
  note: Recorded from surviving first-party client documentation only. The API itself
    is offline and was not probed; no specification was ever recovered.
deprecated_operations: []