# Bartesian

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/bartesian/  
**Website:** https://bartesian.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 1

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.

## Kin Score — 22.9 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 22.9).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 87.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 5.3 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 15.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## APIs (1)

- **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)

- **bartesian-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Bartesian Authentication** — oauth2/openIdConnect/custom-header · 3 schemes
- **Bartesian Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Retail, Ecommerce, Consumer Products, Appliances, Beverages, Direct to Consumer, Commerce, Agentic Commerce, Universal Commerce Protocol, Model Context Protocol, Shopify

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/bartesian/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.