Startup Ignition Public API

Public, unauthenticated POST endpoints used by the marketing site for newsletter signups, contact submissions, masterclass signups, bootcamp applications, investor-deck requests, and annual-meeting RSVPs. There is no auth and no read API.

Machine-readable spec: /docs/api/openapi.json (OpenAPI 3.1). Catalog: /.well-known/api-catalog (RFC 9727).

Conventions

Base URL: https://www.startupignition.com
Method: POST (except /api/health, which is GET)
Request: Content-Type: application/json
Auth: none — these endpoints are public form submission only
Response: 200 with success body on accept, 400 on validation error, 500 on server error

Endpoints

`GET /api/health`

Health check. Returns service status and current time.

`POST /api/newsletter-subscribe`

Subscribe an email address to the Startup Ignition newsletter.

{ "email": "[email protected]" }

`POST /api/masterclass-signup`

{ "email": "[email protected]" }

`POST /api/contact`

Submit a contact-form message. source routes the email to the relevant team.

{
  "source": "bootcamp" | "bootcamp-corporate" | "toolsuite" | "ventures",
  "firstName": "Jane",
  "lastName": "Doe",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "phone": "555-0100",            // optional
  "company": "Acme Inc",          // optional
  "message": "Hi, I'd like to..."
}

`POST /api/investor-deck`

Request access to the investor deck.

{
  "firstName": "Jane",
  "lastName": "Doe",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "company": "Acme Capital"        // optional
}

`POST /api/bootcamp-apply`

Submit a bootcamp application. See the OpenAPI spec for the full required field list.

`POST /api/annual-meeting-rsvp`

RSVP to the annual meeting.

{
  "type": "alumni" | "investor" | "guest",
  "fullName": "Jane Doe",
  "email": "[email protected]",
  "phone": "555-0100",            // optional
  "company": "Acme Inc",          // optional
  "relationship": "...",          // optional
  "tshirtSize": "M"               // optional
}

Agent Discovery

Link response headers (RFC 8288) advertise the catalog, this doc, the OpenAPI spec, the agent skills index, the MCP server, and the A2A agent card.
Pages with markdown counterparts respond to Accept: text/markdown with a markdown rendering. The homepage returns the contents of /llms-full.txt when negotiated.
Agent skills index: /.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
A2A Agent Card: /.well-known/agent-card.json
MCP Server Card: /.well-known/mcp/server-card.json

MCP Server

A Model Context Protocol server is hosted at POST /mcp using the Streamable HTTP transport (protocol version 2025-06-18). It wraps the same form-submission endpoints listed above as MCP tools, so AI agents can drive them via JSON-RPC instead of raw HTTP.

Supported methods: initialize, tools/list, tools/call, ping. The server responds with Content-Type: application/json (no SSE streaming). All four tools (subscribe_newsletter, signup_masterclass, submit_contact, request_investor_deck) accept the same input shapes documented above.