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 is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Materials Science, Sustainable Packaging, Compostable Materials, and Biomaterials.

Cruz Foam’s developer surface includes engineering blog, authentication, code examples, and 29 more developer resources.

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18.9/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 12/100 agent aware Front door AI 1/6 silent saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

1 API

Company Materials Science Sustainable PackagingCompostable MaterialsBiomaterials Circular Economy Manufacturing Consumer Packaged Goods Cold Chain Sustainability

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Marketing Management

BC-400

PostsSEO

Kin Score

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scored 2026-10-17 · rubric v0.24.0

Composite quality — 18.9/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 1.6 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 4.4 / 17

Access Clarity 3.6 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.5 / 10

Discoverability 4.9 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.7 / 15

Agent readiness — 12/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

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Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.

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Markets this provider is in provisional

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Chemistry and Materials (chemical data depositors, materials-data APIs)	undeclared	-	-	-

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APIs 1

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

Cruz Foam Website (WordPress REST)

The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Cruz Foam website at cruzfoam.com: the route index of the site's content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather ...

Open Collections 1

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

Cruz Foam Taxonomy API

OPEN COLLECTION

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

OpenAPI Overlays 1

Overlays applied on top of this provider's contracts. Each card says who wrote it: a document the provider publishes, or one API Evangelist derived or generated.

Cruz Foam Taxonomy Api Overlay

4 actions · update · cruz-foam-taxonomy-api-openapi.yml

GENERATED

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

Conventions

DataModel

Conformance

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

About

Blog

BlogRSS

Press

Careers

Partners

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Instagram

Instagram

Facebook

Facebook

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Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

Overlay

Customers

Products

Source (apis.yml)

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
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
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: '0.23'
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
apis:
- aid: cruz-foam:cruzfoam-com-website-wordpress-rest
  name: Cruz Foam Website (WordPress REST)
  description: 'The public WordPress REST API (wp-json) of the Cruz Foam website at cruzfoam.com: the route index of the site''s
    content management system, catalogued as one site surface rather than as separate APIs.'
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - WordPress
  x-surface: platform-generated
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  x-platform: wordpress
  x-platform-surface: rest
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cruz-foam-capability-edges.yml
  name: Cruz Foam Business Capability Map
- type: Overlay
  url: overlays/cruz-foam-taxonomy-api-overlay.yaml
- 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

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