aid: unicorn-auctions
name: Unicorn Auctions
description: >-
  Unicorn Auctions is a Chicago-based online auction marketplace for rare spirits and
  fine wine, founded in 2019 by A.J. Heindel, Cody Modeer and Phil Mikhaylov out of the
  city's restaurant and bar trade. Every lot is sold on consignment: Unicorn
  authenticates, appraises, photographs and digitizes each bottle before listing it in
  one to three weekly online auctions that can carry several thousand lots spanning
  bourbon, scotch, Japanese whisky, tequila, agave spirits and wine. The company also
  runs a bonded vault storage service for collectors, and publishes The Unicorn Review,
  an editorial and auction-intelligence blog. Bidding is entirely digital, through the
  web platform and native iOS and Android apps. Unicorn Auctions publishes no public
  developer program - no OpenAPI, SDK, webhook catalog or developer portal - and the
  api.unicornauctions.com backend that serves its own clients is private, undocumented
  and disallowed in robots.txt.
image: https://www.unicornauctions.com/images/brand/apple-touch-icon-180x180.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/unicorn-auctions/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-09-02'
modified: '2026-09-02'
tags:
- Company
- Auctions
- Marketplace
- E-Commerce
- Collectibles
- Wine
- Spirits
- Retail
- Consumer
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/unicorn-auctions-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/
- type: Support
  url: https://help.unicornauctions.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/unicorn-review
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/unicorn-auctions
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/signup
- type: Login
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/terms-of-use
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/privacy-policy
- type: Careers
  url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/careers
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/unicorn-auctions-llc
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/unicorn-auctions-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: no-developer-program
  detail: >-
    Unicorn Auctions ships only end-user products - a Next.js bidding site and iOS/Android
    apps - and publishes nothing for developers: no /developers, /developer or /api-docs
    page exists, its GitHub organization has zero public repositories, no first-party SDK
    is on any registry, and the private Rails backend at api.unicornauctions.com answers
    404 on every documentation and contract path while robots.txt explicitly disallows /api/.
  evidence:
    - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/developers
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/openapi.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://api.unicornauctions.com/openapi.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://api.unicornauctions.com/graphql
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
      status: 404
    - url: https://www.unicornauctions.com/llms.txt
      status: 404
    - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/unicorn-auctions/repos
      status: 200
    - url: https://registry.npmjs.org/unicorn-auctions
      status: 404
  checked: '2026-09-02'