Bartesian

Bartesian is a Chicago-based consumer appliance company founded in 2014 by Ryan Close, maker of a capsule-based countertop cocktail machine that mixes bar-quality drinks on demand from a pod of bitters, juices and extracts plus the user's own base spirit. The company launched off a Kickstarter campaign, took investment from Beam Suntory in 2016, and closed a US$20 million round led by Cleveland Avenue in 2021. It runs a razor-and-blade model selling machines and cocktail capsules direct to consumers, plus commercial placements in stadiums and airport lounges. Bartesian publishes no first-party developer program or REST API, but its Shopify storefront at bartesian.com exposes a real and unusually open agent-facing commerce surface: a published llms.txt and agents.md, a dedicated agentic-discovery sitemap, a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and a live MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp that returns all 13 UCP Shopping tools with complete JSON Schema inputSchemas to an anonymous caller - gating execution, not discovery - alongside OAuth 2.0 / OpenID Connect discovery for Shopify customer accounts.

Bartesian publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Ecommerce, Consumer Products, and Appliances.

Bartesian’s developer surface includes documentation, support, engineering blog, pricing, signup flow, and 7 more developer resources.

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22.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

CompanyRetailEcommerceConsumer ProductsAppliancesBeveragesDirect to ConsumerCommerceAgentic CommerceUniversal Commerce ProtocolModel Context ProtocolShopify

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Composite quality — 22.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.0 / 20

Commercial Clarity 8.9 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.7 / 13

Governance 1.5 / 12

Discoverability 8.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

MCP Server 0 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 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

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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Bartesian Commerce (UCP Shopping)

The agent-facing commerce surface of the Bartesian Shopify storefront. The store publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at https://bartesian.com/.well-known/uc...

MCP Servers 1

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

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Bartesian Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Pricing

Pricing

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

SecondaryMarket

SecondaryMarket

Source (apis.yml)

aid: bartesian
name: Bartesian
description: 'Bartesian is a Chicago-based consumer appliance company founded in 2014 by Ryan Close, maker of a capsule-based
  countertop cocktail machine that mixes bar-quality drinks on demand from a pod of bitters, juices and extracts plus the
  user''s own base spirit. The company launched off a Kickstarter campaign, took investment from Beam Suntory in 2016, and
  closed a US$20 million round led by Cleveland Avenue in 2021. It runs a razor-and-blade model selling machines and cocktail
  capsules direct to consumers, plus commercial placements in stadiums and airport lounges. Bartesian publishes no first-party
  developer program or REST API, but its Shopify storefront at bartesian.com exposes a real and unusually open agent-facing
  commerce surface: a published llms.txt and agents.md, a dedicated agentic-discovery sitemap, a Universal Commerce Protocol
  merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp, and a live MCP endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp that returns all 13 UCP Shopping tools with
  complete JSON Schema inputSchemas to an anonymous caller - gating execution, not discovery - alongside OAuth 2.0 / OpenID
  Connect discovery for Shopify customer accounts.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bartesian/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/220963642?v=4
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-06'
modified: '2026-08-06'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Ecommerce
- Consumer Products
- Appliances
- Beverages
- Direct to Consumer
- Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
- Universal Commerce Protocol
- Model Context Protocol
- Shopify
apis:
- aid: bartesian:commerce
  name: Bartesian Commerce (UCP Shopping)
  description: 'The agent-facing commerce surface of the Bartesian Shopify storefront. The store publishes a Universal Commerce
    Protocol merchant profile at https://bartesian.com/.well-known/ucp declaring UCP versions 2026-04-08 and 2026-01-23, the
    dev.ucp.shopping service over both an MCP transport at https://bartesian.com/api/ucp/mcp and an embedded transport, and
    eight capabilities covering cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount, order and catalog search/lookup. Unlike most UCP storefronts,
    this endpoint answers an anonymous initialize and tools/list with HTTP 200, returning all 13 tools together with their
    full JSON Schema draft 2020-12 input schemas - the real contract, captured verbatim. Tool invocation is gated: every tool
    requires a meta.ucp-agent.profile URI, and an anonymous tools/call returns HTTP 422 with JSON-RPC error -32001.'
  humanURL: https://bartesian.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://bartesian.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Commerce
  - Agentic Commerce
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Universal Commerce Protocol
  - Checkout
  - Cart
  - Catalog
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/bartesian-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/bartesian-llms.txt
  - type: WellKnown
    url: well-known/bartesian-well-known.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bartesian-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/bartesian-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/bartesian-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/bartesian-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/bartesian-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/bartesian-data-model.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/bartesian-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/bartesian-conformance.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bartesian-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://bartesian.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://bartesian.com/agents.md
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Bartesian
- type: Support
  url: https://bartesian.com/pages/help
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://bartesian.com/pages/faq
- type: Blog
  url: https://bartesian.com/blogs/news
- type: Pricing
  url: https://bartesian.com/collections/cocktail-machine
- type: SignUp
  url: https://bartesian.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://bartesian.com/policies/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://bartesian.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://www.nasdaqprivatemarket.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-06'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 20
  pass: local-v1