# Chord

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/chord-commerce/  
**Website:** https://www.chordcommerce.com  
**APIs profiled:** 3

Chord is a New York / Santa Barbara-based commerce data and AI platform founded in 2021 by Bryan Mahoney (CEO) and Henry Davis (President & Chairman), both former Glossier executives. Chord began as a headless commerce backbone built on top of Solidus — the open-source Spree Commerce fork written in Ruby on Rails — and has since evolved into an AI-native commerce data platform with three layers: a Data Foundation that unifies sources such as Shopify, ad platforms, and CDPs; a Context Stack that grounds AI in store-specific business context; and a set of Agents that take action across the commerce stack. Its current product surface includes Chord OMS (a Solidus-based order management system covering orders, products, promotions, subscriptions, affiliates, gift cards, returns, shipping, tax, and digital products documented at chord.stoplight.io), Chord CDP (customer data platform with identity resolution, RFM scoring, customer lifetime revenue, and destination activations), Chord Event Tracking (client- and server-side eventing with Shopify Web Pixel integration and consent management via OneTrust and Shopify Customer Privacy API), Chord Data Platform (analytics, predictive modeling, attribution, recommendations, Fivetran ingestion, GA4 compatibility), and Chord AI / Copilot Chat, powered by Anthropic Claude (Opus 4.5 for SQL generation, Haiku 4.5 for response generation and classification) with charts, monitors, context modeling, and natural-language data querying. Chord's GitHub org (github.com/chordcommerce) maintains a fleet of Solidus extensions (solidus_stripe, solidus_braintree, solidus_paypal_braintree, solidus_subscriptions, solidus_virtual_gift_card, solidus_importer, solidus_avatax_certified), a consent-manager TypeScript library, a Jitsu fork for event ingestion, and example repos for eventing and analytics. Notable customers include Sonos, Blue Bottle Coffee, Rodan + Fields, MrBeast, and Ritual. Funding has come from M13 Ventures, Equal Ventures, Act One Ventures, Chingona Ventures, and CEAS Investments, with an $18M Series A reported by TechCrunch in 2021. The commercial model is sales-led with custom enterprise pricing gated behind a demo request.

## Kin Score — 51.5 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0. Trend: rising (+40.3 from 11.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 92.6 |
| Contract Quality | 51.6 |
| Governance | 12.5 |
| Operational Transparency | 44.7 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 65.2 |
| Commercial Clarity | 44.7 |

## Agent readiness — 52.7 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## APIs (3)

- **Chord MCP** — Chord's hosted Model Context Protocol server — a remote, OAuth-protected, read-only window into a customer's Chord data warehouse. Fourteen documented tools cover schema search,...
- **Chord CDP Ingest API** — The HTTP ingest surface of the Chord customer data platform. Backend systems POST track and identify events to /api/track and /api/identify, authenticated with a per-source writ...
- **Chord Audiences API** — Read API for activated audiences. Once the Dynamic Audiences API destination is enabled on an account, a sync mirrors a custom audience into the API and a server-side GET on /au...

## MCP servers (1)

- **chord-commerce-mcp.yml**

## Security (2)

- **Chord Commerce Authentication** — 4 schemes
- **Chord Commerce Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DNSSEC · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Chord Commerce Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Commerce, Composable Commerce, Headless Commerce, Order Management, OMS, Customer Data Platform, CDP, Event Tracking, Commerce Analytics, Customer Lifetime Value, AI Agents, Commerce Copilot, Solidus, Spree, Ruby On Rails, Shopify, DTC, Direct To Consumer

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