Bluecore

Bluecore is a retail marketing technology platform that unifies shopper identity, behavior, and product data into a customer data platform with 20+ predictive AI models, cross-channel experience orchestration (email, SMS, site, paid media), and AI shopping and marketing agents. Its public developer API (developers.bluecore.com) exposes OAuth 2.0 client-credentials authentication, Customer Profile management, eligibility (consent) management, and Communicate surfaces for transactional and direct-send messaging. Customers include Wayfair, Gap, J.Crew, Lenovo, CVS, and Fender. Backed by Norwest Venture Partners and Techstars.

Bluecore publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Retail, Marketing, Customer Data Platform, and Personalization.

Bluecore’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, authentication, changelog, support, engineering blog, and 26 more developer resources.

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51.5/100 developing Agent 81/100 agent native Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
1 APIs 1 MCP Servers 0 Features
CompanyRetailMarketingCustomer Data PlatformPersonalizationEmailSMSMessagingeCommerceConsent

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scored 2026-07-20 · rubric v0.4
Composite quality — 51.5/100 · developing
Contract Quality 13.3 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 13.5 / 20
Commercial Clarity 10.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 5.5 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 9.3 / 10
Agent readiness — 81/100 · agent native
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 15 / 15
MCP Server 12 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 9 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 5 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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APIs

Bluecore API

REST/JSON API exposing OAuth 2.0 client-credentials authentication, Customer Profile (Shopper) retrieval and upsert, Eligibility (subscription/consent) read and update, and Comm...

MCP Servers

bluecore-mcp.yml

MCP SERVER

Arazzo Workflows

_Index

ARAZZO

Onboard a Bluecore customer and send a transactional message

Authenticate, upsert a Customer Profile, opt them into marketing, send a transactional message with an idempotency key, and read its delivery status.

ARAZZO

Rate Limits

Bluecore Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Resources

Get Started 3

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

DeveloperPortal
DeveloperPortal
 GettingStarted
GettingStarted
 Login
Login

Documentation 2

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation
Documentation
 APIReference
APIReference

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 7

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Idempotency
Idempotency
 Conventions
Conventions
 ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle
 Arazzo
Arazzo

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Access & Security 8

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 OAuthScopes
OAuthScopes
 Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity
 VulnerabilityDisclosure
VulnerabilityDisclosure
 Security
Security
 TrustCenter
TrustCenter
 Compliance
Compliance

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Operate 5

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits
RateLimits
 StatusPage
StatusPage
 ChangeLog
ChangeLog
 HelpCenter
HelpCenter
 Support
Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Blog
Blog
 Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: bluecore
name: Bluecore
description: Bluecore is a retail marketing technology platform that unifies shopper identity, behavior, and product data
  into a customer data platform with 20+ predictive AI models, cross-channel experience orchestration (email, SMS, site, paid
  media), and AI shopping and marketing agents. Its public developer API (developers.bluecore.com) exposes OAuth 2.0 client-credentials
  authentication, Customer Profile management, eligibility (consent) management, and Communicate surfaces for transactional
  and direct-send messaging. Customers include Wayfair, Gap, J.Crew, Lenovo, CVS, and Fender. Backed by Norwest Venture Partners
  and Techstars.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/bluecore/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://www.bluecore.com/wp-content/themes/bluecore/assets/img/favicon.png
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- norwest-venture-partners
- techstars
x-tier: profiled
x-tier-reason: enriched-from-developer-portal
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-18'
tags:
- Company
- Retail
- Marketing
- Customer Data Platform
- Personalization
- Email
- SMS
- Messaging
- eCommerce
- Consent
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: Bluecore API
  description: REST/JSON API exposing OAuth 2.0 client-credentials authentication, Customer Profile (Shopper) retrieval and
    upsert, Eligibility (subscription/consent) read and update, and Communicate transactional + direct-send messaging. Rate
    limited per account (burst 100/s, steady 1000/m) with RateLimit-* headers; errors use the google.rpc.Status model.
  humanURL: https://developers.bluecore.com/
  baseURL: https://a.bluecore.com/api
  tags:
  - Customer Data Platform
  - Messaging
  - Consent
  - Email
  - SMS
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/bluecore-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://developers.bluecore.com/docs
  - type: APIReference
    url: https://developers.bluecore.com/reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://developers.bluecore.com/
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/bluecore-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/bluecore-scopes.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/bluecore-openapi-overlay.yaml
common:
- type: DeveloperPortal
  url: https://developers.bluecore.com/
- type: Documentation
  url: https://developers.bluecore.com/docs
- type: APIReference
  url: https://developers.bluecore.com/reference
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://developers.bluecore.com/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bluecore-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/bluecore-scopes.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/bluecore-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/bluecore-conventions.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/bluecore-rate-limits.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/bluecore-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/bluecore-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/bluecore-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/bluecore-lifecycle.yml
- type: StatusPage
  url: https://bluecore.statuspage.io/
- type: ChangeLog
  url: changelog/bluecore-changelog.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/bluecore-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Arazzo
  name: Onboard a Bluecore customer and send a transactional message
  url: arazzo/bluecore-onboard-and-message.arazzo.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/bluecore-llms.txt
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/bluecore-agentic-access.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/bluecore-authentication.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/bluecore-domain-security.yml
- type: VulnerabilityDisclosure
  url: security/bluecore-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: Security
  url: security/bluecore-vulnerability-disclosure.yml
- type: TrustCenter
  url: https://trust.bluecore.com/
- type: Compliance
  url: https://trust.bluecore.com/
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://help.bluecore.com/
- type: Support
  url: mailto:support@bluecore.com
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.bluecore.com/blog/
- type: Login
  url: https://app.bluecore.com/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.bluecore.com/terms-of-use/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.bluecore.com/privacy-policy/
- type: Website
  url: https://bluecore.com
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence