# Cruz Foam

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cruz-foam/  
**Website:** https://cruzfoam.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 31.3 / 100 (thin)

Scored 2026-08-19 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (-0.9 from 32.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 81.5 |
| Contract Quality | 54.8 |
| Governance | 16.7 |
| Contract Governance | 16.7 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 16.1 |
| Commercial Clarity | 21.1 |
| Access Clarity | 21.1 |

## Agent readiness — 45.9 (agent-ready)

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

## Access

Public read-only content API, no signup — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **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...

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cruz Foam Agentic Access** — 23 operations

## Security (2)

- **Cruz Foam Authentication** — 0 schemes
- **Cruz Foam Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cruz Foam Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Company, Materials Science, Sustainable Packaging, Compostable Materials, Biomaterials, Circular Economy, Manufacturing, Consumer Packaged Goods, Cold Chain, Sustainability, Content

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