Pick an Agency vs Redash

Pick an Agency runs a free, no-signup REST + MCP API over its directory of 47,000+ verified marketing agencies, publishing a machine-readable OpenAPI spec at `/api/v1/openapi.json` alongside `/search`, `/agencies/{slug}`, and `/match` endpoints for shortlisting agencies by service, location, and rating. An OPTIONS preflight against `/api/v1/search` confirms the advertised open CORS policy (`access-control-allow-origin: *`), and no endpoint ever demanded a key or returned an auth challenge, reconfirming the stored 'None' auth. The three data-fetching GET endpoints themselves consistently timed out from this sandbox's egress on every attempt — the spec and homepage load fine, so their live JSON payloads could not be directly confirmed this run, though nothing points to the API being down.

Redash is an open-source query and dashboard tool that lets teams connect to a data source, write a query, and visualize the results without writing frontend code. Its REST API, documented live at redash.io/help/user-guide/integrations-and-api/api, authenticates each request with a per-user API key sent as `Authorization: Key <api_key>` and lets scripts create queries, trigger refreshes, and pull dashboard results as JSON. Redash Inc.'s hosted SaaS at app.redash.io was discontinued in 2021, so the project now ships only as free, self-hosted open-source software with no vendor-run instance to point the API at.