Cruz Foam

Cruz Foam is a circular materials company founded in 2017 in Santa Cruz, California by John Felts and Marco Rolandi out of research at the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering. It makes a certified compostable replacement for expanded polystyrene, built from chitin recovered from shrimp and crustacean shells that would otherwise go to landfill, combined with starches and fibers diverted from agricultural waste streams. Its products include Cruz Foam protective packaging, Cruz Cool insulated cold-chain shippers, and EcoVino wine shippers, sold to consumer brands, appliance manufacturers, seafood and cold-chain shippers, and direct-to-consumer retailers. The company was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024. Cruz Foam is a materials manufacturer rather than a software vendor, and publishes no commercial or developer-facing product API, no developer portal, and no SDKs. The only machine-readable interface it exposes is the WordPress REST content API behind its corporate website at cruzfoam.com, which is captured here for discovery purposes and is anonymously readable but read-only.

Cruz Foam publishes 9 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Posts API, Pages API, Customers API, and 6 more. Tagged areas include Company, Materials Science, Sustainable Packaging, Compostable Materials, and Biomaterials.

Cruz Foam’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, code examples, and 27 more developer resources.

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32.2/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 51/100 agent ready Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
9 APIs
CompanyMaterials ScienceSustainable PackagingCompostable MaterialsBiomaterialsCircular EconomyManufacturingConsumer Packaged GoodsCold ChainSustainabilityContent

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scored 2026-08-17 · rubric v0.11.0
Composite quality — 32.2/100 · thin
Contract Quality 13.4 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 20
Commercial Clarity 4.2 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 2.5 / 12
Discoverability 8.2 / 10
Agent readiness — 51/100 · agent ready
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 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
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
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APIs 9

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

Cruz Foam Posts API

Public, unauthenticated read access to the Cruz Foam news and blog archive via the WordPress core REST API. Verified live at 139 published posts.

Cruz Foam Pages API

Public, unauthenticated read access to the static marketing and policy pages of cruzfoam.com — Products, Science, Impact, About Us, Partners, Customers, Careers, Press, Contact,...

Cruz Foam Customers API

Public, unauthenticated read access to the Cruz Foam customer showcase — the site-specific `customers` custom post type behind cruzfoam.com/customers/, listing the brands that s...

Cruz Foam Media API

Public, unauthenticated read access to the media library behind cruzfoam.com — product photography, material and science imagery, and press assets with their generated size vari...

Cruz Foam Taxonomy API

Public, unauthenticated read access to the classification vocabularies behind cruzfoam.com: post categories, post tags, and the site-specific portfolio-categories taxonomy that ...

Cruz Foam Search API

Public, unauthenticated cross-content search over cruzfoam.com — posts, pages and the customer showcase — returning lightweight id / title / url / type / subtype records. Verifi...

Cruz Foam Discovery API

Public, unauthenticated discovery metadata for cruzfoam.com — the self-describing route index (487 routes across 18 namespaces at capture), the registered content types and taxo...

Cruz Foam oEmbed API

Public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for cruzfoam.com URLs, returning embeddable rich metadata — title, author, thumbnail and iframe HTML — for any post, page or customer showcas...

Cruz Foam SEO Metadata API

Public Yoast SEO head endpoint returning the rendered head metadata and its parsed JSON-LD schema.org graph for any cruzfoam.com URL — a structured-data view of every page witho...

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Open Collections 9

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

Cruz Foam Customers API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam Discovery API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam Media API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam oEmbed API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam Pages API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam Posts API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam Search API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam SEO Metadata API

OPEN COLLECTION

Cruz Foam Taxonomy API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Cruz Foam Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Cruz Foam Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Cruz Foam Authentication

0 schemes

SECURITY

Cruz Foam Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Cruz Foam Agentic Access

23 operations

23 operations · 0 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt
LLMsTxt
 AgentSkill
AgentSkill
 AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

ErrorCatalog
ErrorCatalog
 Conventions
Conventions
 DataModel
DataModel
 Conformance
Conformance
 Lifecycle
Lifecycle

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

ToolCrosswalk
ToolCrosswalk
 Examples
Examples

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication
Authentication
 DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Contact
Contact
 RateLimits
RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService
TermsOfService
 PrivacyPolicy
PrivacyPolicy
 Plans
Plans

Company 11

The organization behind the API

Website
Website
 About
About
 Blog
Blog
 BlogRSS
BlogRSS
 Press
Press
 Careers
Careers
 Partners
Partners
 LinkedIn
LinkedIn
 Twitter
Twitter
 Instagram
Instagram
 Facebook
Facebook

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Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Customers
Customers
 Products
Products

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: cruz-foam
name: Cruz Foam
description: Cruz Foam is a circular materials company founded in 2017 in Santa Cruz, California by John Felts and Marco Rolandi
  out of research at the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering. It makes a certified compostable replacement for expanded
  polystyrene, built from chitin recovered from shrimp and crustacean shells that would otherwise go to landfill, combined
  with starches and fibers diverted from agricultural waste streams. Its products include Cruz Foam protective packaging,
  Cruz Cool insulated cold-chain shippers, and EcoVino wine shippers, sold to consumer brands, appliance manufacturers, seafood
  and cold-chain shippers, and direct-to-consumer retailers. The company was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 and Fast
  Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024. Cruz Foam is a materials manufacturer rather than a software vendor, and publishes
  no commercial or developer-facing product API, no developer portal, and no SDKs. The only machine-readable interface it
  exposes is the WordPress REST content API behind its corporate website at cruzfoam.com, which is captured here for discovery
  purposes and is anonymously readable but read-only.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cruz-foam/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-cruz-foam-favicon-192x192.png
accessModel:
  pricing: none
  onboarding: none
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Public read-only content API, no signup
  confidence: high
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-08-11'
  method: derived
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-08-11'
modified: '2026-08-11'
tags:
- Company
- Materials Science
- Sustainable Packaging
- Compostable Materials
- Biomaterials
- Circular Economy
- Manufacturing
- Consumer Packaged Goods
- Cold Chain
- Sustainability
- Content
apis:
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-posts-api
  name: Cruz Foam Posts API
  description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the Cruz Foam news and blog archive via the WordPress core REST API.
    Verified live at 139 published posts.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Posts
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-posts-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-posts-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-pages-api
  name: Cruz Foam Pages API
  description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the static marketing and policy pages of cruzfoam.com — Products, Science,
    Impact, About Us, Partners, Customers, Careers, Press, Contact, Terms and Privacy. Verified live at 17 published pages.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Pages
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-pages-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-pages-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-customers-api
  name: Cruz Foam Customers API
  description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the Cruz Foam customer showcase — the site-specific `customers` custom
    post type behind cruzfoam.com/customers/, listing the brands that ship in Cruz Foam materials, each classified by the
    portfolio-categories taxonomy. Verified live at 20 published entries. This is the only genuinely Cruz-Foam-specific resource
    on the surface.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Customers
  - Case Studies
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-customers-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-customers-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-media-api
  name: Cruz Foam Media API
  description: Public, unauthenticated read access to the media library behind cruzfoam.com — product photography, material
    and science imagery, and press assets with their generated size variants. Verified live at 551 attachments.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Media
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-media-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-media-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-taxonomy-api
  name: Cruz Foam Taxonomy API
  description: 'Public, unauthenticated read access to the classification vocabularies behind cruzfoam.com: post categories,
    post tags, and the site-specific portfolio-categories taxonomy that groups the customer showcase by market segment. Verified
    live at 1 category, 9 tags and 8 portfolio categories.'
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Taxonomy
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-taxonomy-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-search-api
  name: Cruz Foam Search API
  description: Public, unauthenticated cross-content search over cruzfoam.com — posts, pages and the customer showcase — returning
    lightweight id / title / url / type / subtype records. Verified live at 142 searchable objects.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Search
  - Content
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-search-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-search-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-discovery-api
  name: Cruz Foam Discovery API
  description: Public, unauthenticated discovery metadata for cruzfoam.com — the self-describing route index (487 routes across
    18 namespaces at capture), the registered content types and taxonomies, the publication statuses, and the public author
    records. This is the surface that makes the rest of the API machine-readable without any published documentation.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Discovery
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-discovery-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-discovery-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-oembed-api
  name: Cruz Foam oEmbed API
  description: Public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for cruzfoam.com URLs, returning embeddable rich metadata — title, author,
    thumbnail and iframe HTML — for any post, page or customer showcase entry.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - oEmbed
  - Metadata
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-oembed-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-oembed-api-overlay.yaml
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-seo-api
  name: Cruz Foam SEO Metadata API
  description: Public Yoast SEO head endpoint returning the rendered head metadata and its parsed JSON-LD schema.org graph
    for any cruzfoam.com URL — a structured-data view of every page without scraping the HTML.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - SEO
  - Metadata
  - JSON-LD
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-seo-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
  - type: Overlay
    url: overlays/cruz-foam-seo-api-overlay.yaml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/
- type: About
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/about-us/
- type: Blog
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/blog/
- type: BlogRSS
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/feed/
- type: Press
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/press/
- type: Contact
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/contact/
- type: Careers
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/careers/
- type: Partners
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/partners/
- type: Customers
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/customers/
- type: Products
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/products/
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/terms/
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://cruzfoam.com/privacy/
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cruz-foam/
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/CruzFoam
- type: Instagram
  url: https://www.instagram.com/cruzfoam/
- type: Facebook
  url: https://www.facebook.com/CruzFoam/
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cruz-foam-authentication.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/cruz-foam-problem-types.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/cruz-foam-conventions.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/cruz-foam-data-model.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/cruz-foam-conformance.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/cruz-foam-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/cruz-foam-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/cruz-foam-plans-pricing.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/cruz-foam-llms.txt
- type: ToolCrosswalk
  url: mcp/cruz-foam-tool-crosswalk.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Examples
  url: examples/cruz-foam-examples.yml
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cruz-foam-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cruz-foam-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-11'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 37
  pass: local-v1