# CSC Generation

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/csc-generation/  
**Website:** https://www.cscgeneration.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 2

CSC Generation is an AI-native retail holding company that acquires overlooked store- and catalogue-based retailers and rebuilds them on Genesis, its agent-orchestrated operating platform. Genesis combines a Data Fabric — a Data Management Platform that ingests and normalizes data across every brand without replatforming, and a Data Intelligence Platform that turns it into decision-ready signals for operators and AI agents — with an automation engine, proprietary retail AI tools, and centralized shared services covering customer experience, supply chain, technology and compliance. The company powers 13 brands and more than $1B in revenue, including Backcountry, Competitive Cyclist, Steep & Cheap, MotoSport, BikeTiresDirect, Level Nine Sports, Sur La Table, One Kings Lane, Seattle Coffee Gear and Home Consignment Center, and operates from Chicago, Austin, Los Angeles, Toronto, Seattle and Salt Lake City. CSC Generation publishes no corporate developer API; its machine-readable surface is per-brand — portfolio storefronts advertise Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) merchant profiles at /.well-known/ucp that point agents at MCP endpoints for catalog search, cart and checkout.

## Kin Score — 12.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 75.9 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 18.2 |
| Contract Governance | 18.2 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 13.7 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 19.1 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | verified |
| Auth Clarity | bearer |
| Idempotency | documented |
| Error Semantics | documented |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | derived |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | platform |

## APIs (2)

- **Backcountry Agent Commerce (UCP)** — Backcountry, a CSC Generation brand, publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at its own /.well-known/ucp declaring UCP 2026-01-23 with both REST and MCP transpo...
- **Seattle Coffee Gear Agent Commerce (UCP)** — Seattle Coffee Gear, a CSC Generation brand, publishes a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile at /.well-known/ucp declaring UCP 2026-04-08 (Shopify-native) with MCP and ...

## MCP servers (1)

- **CSC Generation MCP Server**

## Security (2)

- **Csc Generation Authentication** — apiKey/agent-profile-handshake · 2 schemes
- **Csc Generation Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Retail, E-Commerce, Agent Commerce, Artificial Intelligence, Universal Commerce Protocol, MCP, Holding Company, Shopping

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