Butternut Box

Butternut Box is a London-headquartered direct-to-consumer pet nutrition company that cooks and delivers fresh, gently-steamed dog food on a personalised subscription. Customers complete an online profiling wizard covering their dog's breed, age, weight, activity level and health needs, and Butternut Box calculates a portioned meal plan from human-quality meat and vegetables, batch-cooks it at low temperature, freezes it, and ships it on a recurring schedule. Founded in 2016 and certified as a B Corporation, the company operates nine locale storefronts covering the United Kingdom, Ireland, the Netherlands, Belgium (Dutch and French), Germany, Italy, Sweden and Denmark, and runs its own production facility alongside a React / React Native / Ruby on Rails engineering stack. Butternut Box publishes no public developer API, developer portal or machine-readable specification; its customer-facing surfaces are the marketing site, the subscription web app and the iOS/Android apps.

Butternut Box is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Pet Care, Pet Food, Direct to Consumer, and Subscription.

Butternut Box’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, signup flow, and 12 more developer resources.

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15.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

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Company Pet Care Pet Food Direct to Consumer Subscription E-Commerce Food and Beverage Consumer Goods United Kingdom

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scored 2026-08-25 · rubric v0.14.0

Composite quality — 15.4/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.9 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Surface 0 / 5

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Source (apis.yml)

aid: butternut-box
name: Butternut Box
description: Butternut Box is a London-headquartered direct-to-consumer pet nutrition company that cooks and delivers fresh,
  gently-steamed dog food on a personalised subscription. Customers complete an online profiling wizard covering their dog's
  breed, age, weight, activity level and health needs, and Butternut Box calculates a portioned meal plan from human-quality
  meat and vegetables, batch-cooks it at low temperature, freezes it, and ships it on a recurring schedule. Founded in 2016
  and certified as a B Corporation, the company operates nine locale storefronts covering the United Kingdom, Ireland, the
  Netherlands, Belgium (Dutch and French), Germany, Italy, Sweden and Denmark, and runs its own production facility alongside
  a React / React Native / Ruby on Rails engineering stack. Butternut Box publishes no public developer API, developer portal
  or machine-readable specification; its customer-facing surfaces are the marketing site, the subscription web app and the
  iOS/Android apps.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/butternut-box/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://a.storyblok.com/f/339951/1200x630/18d721bbbe/butternut-box-open-graph-image.png
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-02'
modified: '2026-08-02'
tags:
- Company
- Pet Care
- Pet Food
- Direct to Consumer
- Subscription
- E-Commerce
- Food and Beverage
- Consumer Goods
- United Kingdom
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/butternut-box-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://butternutbox.com/
- type: Blog
  url: https://butternutbox.com/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://help.butternutbox.com/en/
- type: Contact
  url: https://butternutbox.com/contact
- type: SignUp
  url: https://app.butternutbox.com/wizard/new
- type: Login
  url: https://app.butternutbox.com/users/sign_in
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://butternutbox.com/terms-and-conditions/2025
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://butternutbox.com/privacy-policy/2025
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/ButternutBox
- type: Careers
  url: https://butternutbox.com/careers
- type: Sustainability
  url: https://butternutbox.com/sustainability
- type: Certification
  url: https://www.bcorporation.net/en-us/find-a-b-corp/company/butternut-box/
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/butternut-box-llms.txt
- type: SecondaryMarket
  url: https://www.hiive.com/securities/butternut-box-stock
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-02'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1

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