# Autonomous data API

URL: /start/templates/autonomous-data-api · Id: `startupTemplate:autonomous-data-api`

> An Autonomous data API runs with no humans and sells a Dataset API and Headless SaaS to developers and their Agents.

An Autonomous data API runs with no humans and sells a [Dataset API](/products/templates/dataset-api) and [Headless SaaS](/products/templates/headless-saas) to developers and their [Agents](/business/nouns/agent). Its supply is digital, so demand is its only constraint.

## The business
| Line | Default |
| --- | --- |
| Earns | [Dataset API](/products/templates/dataset-api): `usage`; [Headless SaaS](/products/templates/headless-saas): `usage` |
| Typical Prices | $0.002 per lookup; $49 a month for 50,000 calls; $0.01 per call; $99 a month for 25,000 calls |
| First revenue on | A [Demand Budget](/business/nouns/demand-budget) of $0 |
| Supply | `digital`: Agents do the work |
| Motions | [b2d](/business/motions/b2d), [b2a](/business/motions/b2a), [b2a2d](/business/motions/b2a2d) |
| One metric per state | Idea: [Problem interviews](/agents/founding#problem-interviews); Building: [Committed ICP members](/agents/founding#committed-icp-members); Live: [Active calling keys](/agents/product#active-calling-keys); Repeatable: [Logo churn](/agents/customer#logo-churn); Scale: [Net revenue retention](/agents/customer#net-revenue-retention) |
| Seed Plays | [Agent registries](/workflows/plays/agent-registries), [Directory listings](/workflows/plays/directory-listings), [Community answers](/workflows/plays/community-answers), [Launch sites](/workflows/plays/launch-sites) |
| Compounding Plays | [Programmatic SEO](/workflows/plays/programmatic-seo), [Answer engine optimization](/workflows/plays/aeo), [Developer relations](/workflows/plays/developer-relations), [Integration partners](/workflows/plays/integration-partners) |

## Adds
| Kind | Item | From |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Operating model | [Autonomous](/agents/operating-models/autonomous) | This template |
| Product Template | [Dataset API](/products/templates/dataset-api) | This template |
| System | [Datasets](/systems/datasets) | [Dataset API](/products/templates/dataset-api) |
| Product Template | [Headless SaaS](/products/templates/headless-saas) | This template |
| Motion | [b2d](/business/motions/b2d) | This template |
| Motion | [b2a](/business/motions/b2a) | This template |
| Motion | [b2a2d](/business/motions/b2a2d) | This template |

## Wakes
- [Product definition](/workflows/processes/product-definition)
- [Release](/workflows/processes/release)
- [Incident response](/workflows/processes/incident-response)

## Staffing
- [Integration Engineer](/agents/engineering/integration-engineer)
- [Engineering Lead](/agents/engineering/engineering-lead)
- [Reliability Engineer](/agents/engineering/reliability-engineer)

## Floor
- [Breach](/systems/legal-and-corporate/floor/breach)

## Controls
- [Vulnerability management](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/vulnerability-management)
- [Deploy reconciliation](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/deploy-reconciliation)
- [Anomaly monitoring](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/anomaly-monitoring)
- [Incident handling](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/incident-handling)
- [Revert by query](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/revert-by-query)
- [Breach notification](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/breach-notification)
- [Change approval](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/change-approval)
- [Environment separation](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/environment-separation)
- [Capacity headroom](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/capacity-headroom)
- [Point-in-time recovery](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/point-in-time-recovery)
- [Processing definitions](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/processing-definitions)
- [Input validation](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/input-validation)
- [Purpose limitation](/systems/trust-and-governance/controls/purpose-limitation)

## Builders
- [SoftwareBuilder](/code/builders/software)
- [StartupBuilder](/code/builders/startup)
- [SalesBuilder](/code/builders/sales)

## Next
None.

## Example
A [Startup](/business/nouns/startup) sells container freight rates, refreshed hourly, at $0.002 a lookup or $49 a month for 50,000 calls. Coding Agents find it in [agent registries](/workflows/plays/agent-registries) and buy within their own [Limits](/business/nouns/limit). After [Live](/business/lifecycle/states/live), [programmatic SEO](/workflows/plays/programmatic-seo) pages for each port pair bring the next developers.