Sweeten API
No API surface exists: no developer portal, OpenAPI spec, documented auth, sandbox, webhooks, or self-serve signup for the marketplace or Sweeten Enterprise. Lead syncing, review export, and payment reconciliation all live in the web UI and conversations with Sweeten staff.
Frequently asked questions
Sweeten scores F on the API Report Card. No API surface exists: no developer portal, OpenAPI spec, documented auth, sandbox, webhooks, or self-serve signup for the marketplace or Sweeten Enterprise. Lead syncing, review export, and payment reconciliation all live in the web UI and conversations with Sweeten staff.
Without a usable official API, teams fall back on manual exports, file drops, or one-off vendor integrations. The other option is an unofficial API layer like Supergood that automates the authenticated web app directly.
Sweeten is a New York City-based renovation marketplace founded in 2011 by Jean Brownhill, a trained architect who launched the company after a frustrating personal home renovation, and headquartered at 195 Centre St, New York, NY.
Construction, specifically two distinct buyer profiles. On the Marketplace, a homeowner describes a renovation project (scope, budget, location, building type, timeline) on sweeten.com; the matching algorithm plus a human Sweeten matchmaker shortlist 3-5 pre-vetted general contractors who specialize in that project type and geography.
Medium in NYC residential renovation, low-to-medium nationally.
Sweeten sits on a focused but high-value private dataset that exists nowhere else in the same combination.
Mature on the marketplace side, early on the enterprise side.
No developer portal or public API documentation exists at sweeten.com, contractors and integrators have no documented path to sync leads, projects, or reviews into external tools. No documented webhook for new-lead delivery, contractors must check the Sweeten interface or email manually to know they have been matched to a project. Full sourced list under Sources below.
Common alternatives include Angi (Angie's List + HomeAdvisor), Houzz, Thumbtack, Block Renovation, BuildZoom, Porch. Graded alternatives appear under "More from the report card" below.
Grades measure one thing: can a customer's engineering team get their own data out programmatically? We check six things (whether a real API exists, how access is gated, data coverage, auth quality, docs and developer experience, and stability) and roll them into a letter grade. Grades get re-verified, and they only move on evidence.