Frank Kilcommins

I have worked with and reviewed thousands of APIs across startups, enterprises, and global platforms. Almost all shipped an OpenAPI Description. Yet through the lens of AI systems and intelligent agents, most failed a simple test. They were designed for humans (often badly), not machines.

In this session I will share what I have learned from helping organisations make their APIs truly AI-ready, breaking down the six dimensions that determine whether an API can be understood, reasoned over, discovered, and safely executed by intelligent systems. These include foundational compliance, developer experience, semantic clarity, agent usability, security, and AI discoverability.

Using the Jentic API Scoring Framework as a visual guide, I will show how to assess AI-readiness, where most teams stumble, and the simple changes that dramatically improve both human and machine understanding.