About
We make professional data feel like infrastructure.
LinkdAPI is a small, independent team building reliable, structured access to public professional and company data through a single API. This page is about who we are, what we believe, and how we work.
The story
We started LinkdAPI to delete a category of work.
In 2024 we kept seeing the same pattern. Every meaningful product, sales tool, recruiting platform, market intelligence app, internal directory, needs structured information about people and companies. Almost nobody could get to it cleanly. Teams were spending weeks on data engineering before they shipped any actual feature.
So we built the layer we wished we had. One API call, predictable latency, normalized output. The kind of building block that fades into the background once it works.
Today thousands of requests run through LinkdAPI every minute. We're still small, still independent, and we still treat the API the way we'd want to use it ourselves.
What we believe
Four ideas the platform is built around.
The data layer should be invisible.
You shouldn't think about it any more than you think about TLS or DNS. It either works or it doesn't. Anything else is a leaky abstraction we're trying to fix.
APIs are products.
A good API is a user interface for developers. Documentation, error messages, response shapes, latency, every detail is a design decision. We treat them that way, not as engineering chores.
Public is the only thing we work with.
LinkdAPI aggregates information from sources that are already publicly accessible on the web. We don't bypass authentication. We don't access non-public surfaces. What you can read with a browser, we can deliver as JSON.
Boring beats clever.
The infrastructure we admire is the kind that runs at 3 AM with nobody watching. We optimize for predictability, not novelty. Our changelog is shorter than most by design.
How we work
Specific commitments, not abstract values.
- We answer support directly. When you email us, you reach the team that wrote the code.
- We don't ship breaking changes without a deprecation window, ever.
- We publish a public roadmap and update it when priorities change.
- We don't add fake urgency to checkout. You buy when you're ready.
- We measure ourselves on tail latency, not averages. The 99th-percentile request is the one your customer remembers.
What we won't do
Some promises are easier to read backwards.
- We won't sell or share your account data with anyone.
- We won't lock you in. Export your usage, cancel anytime, no retention games.
- We won't charge for what we didn't deliver. If our service is down, you don't pay for it.
- We won't bypass any platform's authentication, security, or access controls. That isn't what we do.
Who's building this
A small, independent team.
LinkdAPI is built and operated by a small, independent team. We're not venture-backed, we don't have a sales department, and we don't plan to.
Every dollar of revenue is reinvested into the platform and the people who depend on it. That's the whole strategy.
Get in touch
We read everything.
Questions, feedback, or just want to talk shop, write to [email protected]. A real person responds, usually within 2 hours.