--- title: The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia | daily.dev description: A survey of 227 of Australia's largest companies finds 52% publish no machine-readable API contract, developer portal, MCP server or agent card for AI agents... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-programmable-sectors-in-australia-fijb9wurf twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia | daily.dev og:description: A survey of 227 of Australia's largest companies finds 52% publish no machine-readable API contract, developer portal, MCP server or agent card for AI agents... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/the-most-programmable-sectors-in-australia-fijb9wurf og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/FijB9wurF.png og:image:alt: The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # The Most Programmable Sectors In Australia **[API Evangelist](https://daily.dev/sources/apievangelist)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary A survey of 227 of Australia's largest companies finds 52% publish no machine-readable API contract, developer portal, MCP server or agent card for AI agents to discover. Tech leads with 76% publishing their own contract, driven by commercial incentive. Banking and energy sit in the middle, with 31 companies in the sample carrying a Consumer Data Right signal. Mining and super funds are nearly dark: 37 of 41 miners publish nothing, and the six largest super funds, holding roughly four trillion dollars, have no contract, portal or sandbox. Only 49 companies serve an llms.txt file and just three publish an agent card. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Questions this post answers ### What percentage of Australia's largest companies publish an API contract or developer portal that an AI agent could use? 48% of 227 profiled companies (the ASX 200 plus major private, tech, telco, super and government publishers) publish at least one machine-readable signal such as an OpenAPI or AsyncAPI contract, a developer portal, an MCP server, an agent card, an llms.txt file, or published pricing and rate limits. The remaining 52%, or 117 companies, publish none of it, including BHP, Rio Tinto, CSL, Coles and Woodside. _Tracking which companies expose real APIs versus marketing pages is easier with daily.dev's coverage of agent discoverability trends._ ### Why do Australian banks and energy companies publish more APIs than miners or super funds? Banking and energy companies are pushed to publish by the Consumer Data Right (CDR), a regulatory mandate; 31 companies in the sample carry a CDR signal, and outside tech, nearly every bank or energy retailer contract is its CDR contract. Mining and superannuation sit outside CDR, so nothing forces disclosure: 37 of 41 miners and all six largest super funds publish no contract, portal or sandbox. _Developers weighing which regulated sectors will open APIs next can follow CDR expansion news through daily.dev._ ### How many companies in Australia have MCP servers or agent cards for AI agent commerce? Only six companies run MCP servers backed by their own API in the tech sector (Xero, Airwallex, SafetyCulture, Linktree, Go1 and Envato), and just three agent cards exist across all 227 companies profiled (Woolworths' Wpay, Linktree and Immutable). Separately, several retailers including JB Hi-Fi, Lovisa and Harvey Norman expose MCP endpoints only because Shopify enabled them by default. _Developers building agent commerce integrations can track which retailers actually expose MCP endpoints via daily.dev._ ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [83 of the Fortune 100 Have a Developer or API Portal](https://daily.dev/posts/83-of-the-fortune-100-have-a-developer-or-api-portal-fzizu3rql) · API Evangelist · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [Standards and Artifacts: Why the Agentic Turn Rewards What Australia's Banks Already Ship](https://daily.dev/posts/standards-and-artifacts-why-the-agentic-turn-rewards-what-australia-s-banks-already-ship-culkzeqpi) · API Evangelist · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Auditing the agent economy: what the forecasts actually say](https://daily.dev/posts/auditing-the-agent-economy-what-the-forecasts-actually-say-u5fvg4ful) · The Next Web · 0 upvotes · 0 comments - [State of Agentic AI Report: Key Findings](https://daily.dev/posts/state-of-agentic-ai-report-key-findings-zmdqf4wzi) · Docker · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - 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