Arka

Arka is a custom packaging company that lets ecommerce brands design, order, and ship eco-friendly custom boxes, mailers, and sustainable packaging online. Arka offers low minimums, fast turnaround, and plug-in integrations with commerce platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Square so merchants can reorder packaging alongside their fulfillment workflow. Arka's storefront runs on Shopify and exposes a modern agent-commerce surface — a published /llms.txt, an agentic-discovery sitemap, OIDC/OAuth 2.0 discovery for the Shopify Customer Account API, and a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint that lets AI shopping agents search the catalog, build carts, and complete buyer-approved checkouts. Surfaced as a 500 Global portfolio company and profiled here as part of the API Evangelist network.

Arka is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Packaging, Custom Packaging, E-Commerce, and Sustainability.

Arka’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 9 more developer resources.

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16.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company PackagingCustom PackagingE-Commerce Sustainability Commerce Agentic Commerce Shopify

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 16.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 0 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

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MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

Arka MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Arka Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

WellKnown

MCPServer

MCPServer

Design & Contract 1

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Conformance

Conformance

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

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Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 2

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Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: arka
name: Arka
description: Arka is a custom packaging company that lets ecommerce brands design, order, and ship eco-friendly custom boxes,
  mailers, and sustainable packaging online. Arka offers low minimums, fast turnaround, and plug-in integrations with commerce
  platforms including Shopify, BigCommerce, and Square so merchants can reorder packaging alongside their fulfillment workflow.
  Arka's storefront runs on Shopify and exposes a modern agent-commerce surface — a published /llms.txt, an agentic-discovery
  sitemap, OIDC/OAuth 2.0 discovery for the Shopify Customer Account API, and a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint
  that lets AI shopping agents search the catalog, build carts, and complete buyer-approved checkouts. Surfaced as a 500 Global
  portfolio company and profiled here as part of the API Evangelist network.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/arka/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://www.arka.com/cdn/shop/files/Meta-Image_8d5f53a4-fc6a-4675-aea9-a25b6f96e578.jpg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Packaging
- Custom Packaging
- E-Commerce
- Sustainability
- Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
- Shopify
tags_raw:
- Company
- Packaging
- Custom Packaging
- Ecommerce
- Sustainability
- Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
- Shopify
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://arka.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.arka.com/blogs/news
- type: Support
  url: https://www.arka.com/pages/contact-us
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.arka.com/pages/faq
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.arka.com/account/login
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.arka.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.arka.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/arka-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/arka-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/arka-mcp.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/arka-conformance.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/arka-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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