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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 12 APIs on the APIs.io network, including Posts API, Pages API, Customers API, and 9 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 29 more developer resources.

19.4/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 32/100 agent ready saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
12 APIs
CompanyMaterials ScienceSustainable PackagingCompostable MaterialsBiomaterialsCircular EconomyManufacturingConsumer Packaged GoodsCold ChainSustainabilityContent

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics does not apply to this provider. The published contracts declare no write operations, and a read-only API cannot create-or-update. The facet is excluded from this provider's denominator entirely — not scored zero. A reference or data API is not deficient for being unable to upsert.
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APIs 12

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 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...

Cruz Foam Categories API

Post categories.

Cruz Foam Portfolio Categories API

Segments applied to the customer showcase.

Cruz Foam Tags API

Post tags.

Cruz Foam Users API

Public author records.

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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 Taxonomy API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

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

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 2

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 11

The organization behind the API

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Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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
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
- 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-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
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-categories-api
  name: Cruz Foam Categories API
  description: Post categories.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Categories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-categories-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
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-portfolio-categories-api
  name: Cruz Foam Portfolio Categories API
  description: Segments applied to the customer showcase.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Portfolio Categories
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-portfolio-categories-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
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-tags-api
  name: Cruz Foam Tags API
  description: Post tags.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - Tags
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-tags-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
- aid: cruz-foam:cruz-foam-users-api
  name: Cruz Foam Users API
  description: Public author records.
  humanURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json/
  baseURL: https://cruzfoam.com/wp-json
  tags:
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Users
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cruz-foam-users-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
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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