Debut

Debut (Debut Biotechnology, Inc.) is a San Diego, California biotechnology company founded in 2019 by Dr. Joshua Britton that combines AI-driven molecular discovery, skin genomics and cell-free biomanufacturing to create novel cosmetic active ingredients and finished skincare formulations. Its BeautyORB platform screens billions of candidate molecules in silico against a skin-health genomic dataset, and the company is vertically integrated from discovery through fermentation, scale-up and formulation, selling ingredients and brand-ready products to beauty manufacturers as well as running its own direct-to-consumer skincare brand, DEINDE. Debut has raised roughly $89M across Series A, Series B (led by BOLD, the L'Oreal venture fund) and later rounds, employs more than 80 people, and was named to the TIME100 Most Innovative Companies 2025. Debut sells molecules and formulations rather than software: debutbiotech.com publishes no developer program, no public API and no machine-readable API contract. Its only agent-reachable API surface is the Shopify-hosted Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint on its DEINDE storefront at www.deinde.com, which is live, unauthenticated for catalog and cart operations, and returns full JSON Schema tool definitions.

Debut publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Beauty, Cosmetics, and Skincare.

Debut’s developer surface includes engineering blog, product news, support, documentation, authentication, and 21 more developer resources.

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20.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 16/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Biotechnology Beauty Cosmetics Skincare Ingredients Synthetic Biology Artificial Intelligence Manufacturing E-Commerce Agentic Commerce

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 20.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 6.1 / 20

Access Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 16/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 10 / 10

Idempotency 9 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 8 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 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 5 / 5

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APIs 1

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

DEINDE Commerce (UCP MCP)

The agent-facing commerce API for Debut's direct-to-consumer skincare brand DEINDE. It is a Shopify-hosted Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) service exposed over MCP at https://...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

DEINDE Commerce (UCP MCP)

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Debut Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Debut Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

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

Debut Authentication

4 schemes

SECURITY

Debut Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Debut Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Documentation

Documentation

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

MCPServer

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 5

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Idempotency

Conventions

ErrorCatalog

Conformance

Lifecycle

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Contact

Contact

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Plans

Plans

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

About

Blog

News

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Product

Product

Store

Store

Source (apis.yml)

aid: debut
name: Debut
description: 'Debut (Debut Biotechnology, Inc.) is a San Diego, California biotechnology company founded in 2019 by Dr. Joshua
  Britton that combines AI-driven molecular discovery, skin genomics and cell-free biomanufacturing to create novel cosmetic
  active ingredients and finished skincare formulations. Its BeautyORB platform screens billions of candidate molecules in
  silico against a skin-health genomic dataset, and the company is vertically integrated from discovery through fermentation,
  scale-up and formulation, selling ingredients and brand-ready products to beauty manufacturers as well as running its own
  direct-to-consumer skincare brand, DEINDE. Debut has raised roughly $89M across Series A, Series B (led by BOLD, the L''Oreal
  venture fund) and later rounds, employs more than 80 people, and was named to the TIME100 Most Innovative Companies 2025.
  Debut sells molecules and formulations rather than software: debutbiotech.com publishes no developer program, no public
  API and no machine-readable API contract. Its only agent-reachable API surface is the Shopify-hosted Universal Commerce
  Protocol (UCP) MCP endpoint on its DEINDE storefront at www.deinde.com, which is live, unauthenticated for catalog and cart
  operations, and returns full JSON Schema tool definitions.'
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/697a5ef4d9ca0a3187500d0b/697a5ef4d9ca0a3187500d47_Debut-Favicon.png
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/debut/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-api-posture: no-product-api
x-api-posture-basis: observed
x-api-posture-note: 'Debut sells molecules and formulations rather than software: debutbiotech.com publishes no developer
  program, no public API and no machine-readable API contract.'
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: harvest
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-12'
modified: '2026-08-12'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- Skincare
- Ingredients
- Synthetic Biology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Manufacturing
- E-Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
tags_raw:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Beauty
- Cosmetics
- Skincare
- Ingredients
- Synthetic Biology
- Artificial Intelligence
- Manufacturing
- Ecommerce
- Agentic Commerce
apis:
- name: DEINDE Commerce (UCP MCP)
  description: The agent-facing commerce API for Debut's direct-to-consumer skincare brand DEINDE. It is a Shopify-hosted
    Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) service exposed over MCP at https://www.deinde.com/api/ucp/mcp, advertised by the store's
    own /llms.txt, /agents.md and /.well-known/ucp documents. An anonymous tools/list call returns 13 tools with complete
    JSON Schema inputs covering catalog search and lookup, cart lifecycle, checkout lifecycle and order retrieval. This is
    platform-provided commerce plumbing served from Debut's own host, not a first-party Debut engineering API — Debut publishes
    no OpenAPI and no developer portal of its own.
  humanURL: https://www.deinde.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://www.deinde.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - E-Commerce
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - UCP
  - Shopify
  tags_raw:
  - Ecommerce
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - UCP
  - Shopify
  properties:
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://www.deinde.com/agents.md
    description: The store's own canonical agent-facing description of the endpoint; /llms.txt mirrors it. This is the only
      documentation Debut serves for any API.
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/debut-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/debut-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/debut-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/debut-conventions.yml
  - type: Idempotency
    url: conventions/debut-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/debut-problem-types.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/debut-rate-limits.yml
  - type: Plans
    url: plans/debut-plans-pricing.yml
  - type: Conformance
    url: conformance/debut-conformance.yml
  - type: AgentSkill
    url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/debut-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/
- type: Product
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/platform
  description: The BeautyORB AI ingredient-discovery platform and formulation pipeline.
- type: About
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/news
- type: News
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/news
- type: Support
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/contact-us
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.debutbiotech.com/terms-of-use
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/debut-biotechnology
- type: Store
  url: https://www.deinde.com/
  description: DEINDE, Debut's direct-to-consumer skincare brand (Shopify store debut-beauty.myshopify.com).
- type: Documentation
  url: https://www.deinde.com/agents.md
  description: The DEINDE store's canonical agent-facing documentation for its UCP MCP endpoint — the only API documentation
    Debut serves from any of its hosts.
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/debut-mcp.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/debut-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/debut-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/debut-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/debut-scopes.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/debut-conventions.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/debut-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/debut-problem-types.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/debut-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/debut-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/debut-conformance.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/debut-lifecycle.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-12'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: local-v1

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