HNI

HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) is a manufacturer founded in 1944 and headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa, built around two operating segments. Workplace Furnishings makes office seating, desks, storage, tables, panel systems and ancillary furnishings sold through independent dealers under the HON, Allsteel, Gunlocke, HBF and Kimball International brands. Residential Building Products is the hearth business, operated by Hearth & Home Technologies under the Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Majestic, Monessen, Quadra-Fire, Harman, SimpliFire and PelPro brands. HNI publishes no developer portal, REST API or OpenAPI for either segment. Its one public machine-readable surface is the agent-commerce stack on the Hearth & Home Technologies storefront at hearthnhome.com, which serves an llms.txt, a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile and an anonymous MCP endpoint exposing 13 catalog, cart and checkout tools.

HNI is listed with 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Fortune 1000, Manufacturing, Office Furniture, Workplace, and Building Products.

HNI’s developer surface includes authentication and 25 more developer resources.

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18.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 27/100 agent aware Heartbeat 4/100 dormant Full breakdown ↓
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1 API 1 MCP Servers 2 Agent Skills

Fortune 1000 ManufacturingOffice FurnitureWorkplace Building Products Hearth Retail E-Commerce Agentic Commerce MCP

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Composite quality — 18.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 3.9 / 17

Access Clarity 2.5 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 1.9 / 10

Discoverability 6.4 / 9

Regulatory Posture 3.1 / 15

Agent readiness — 27/100 · 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 6 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 5 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

Machine-Readable Contract +18 pts — api_specs includes an OpenAPI document Ask about this →
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Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document Ask about this →
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Standards implemented 2

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

measured — observed by APIs.io (platform)

OAuth 2.0 Protected Resource Metadata

measured — observed by APIs.io (verified)

APIs 1

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

Hearth & Home Technologies Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP)

The Hearth & Home Technologies storefront implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) over an anonymous Model Context Protocol endpoint. A tools/list probe on 2026-09-13 re...

MCP Servers 1

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

Hearth & Home Technologies Agent Commerce MCP Server

Remote MCP server at hearthnhome.com requiring OAuth; 13 tools listed.

MCP SERVER

Agent Skills 2

Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.

hni-agent-purchase

AGENT SKILL

hni-catalog-search

AGENT SKILL

HNI API pricing

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

HNI Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

HNI Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Terms of Service 1

What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.

HNI

13 quoted statements, read from HNI's own page on 2026-11-09.

TERMS

Privacy & Data 1

Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.

HNI

21 quoted statements, read from HNI's own page on 2026-11-09.

PRIVACY

Eligibility 1

Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.

HNI

4 quoted statements, read from HNI's own page on 2026-11-09.

ELIGIBILITY

AI Preferences 1

Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.

HNI

4 quoted statements, read from HNI's own page on 2026-11-09.

AI PREFS

Data License 1

How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.

HNI

2 quoted statements, read from HNI's own page on 2026-11-09.

LICENSE

Security Posture 2

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

HNI Authentication

4 schemes

SECURITY

HNI Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

HNI Scopes

4 scopes · authorization_code

4 scopes

SCOPES

Press 5

Recent news and press coverage referencing this provider.

The companies have closed on the acquisition deal, HNI ...

HNI signals fifth year of double-digit EPS growth with $120 ...

HNI Corporation

HNI to purchase Steelcase Inc., HNI's headquarters ...

HNI) 2026 proxy details Steelcase deal, pay and ESG

Resources

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

AIPreferences

AIPreferences

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

LLMsTxt

AgentSkill

MCPServer

Design & Contract 6

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conventions

Idempotency

Lifecycle

ErrorCatalog

DataModel

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Packages

Packages

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 5

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

Plans

UsageTerms

DataLicense

Company 3

The organization behind the API

BlogRSS

BlogRSS

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 2

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

DataProcessing

DataProcessing

Eligibility

Eligibility

Source (apis.yml)

name: HNI
aid: hni
specificationVersion: '0.23'
position: Producing
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2026-04-28'
modified: '2026-10-06'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/hni/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/hni.png
description: 'HNI Corporation (NYSE: HNI) is a manufacturer founded in 1944 and headquartered in Muscatine, Iowa, built around
  two operating segments. Workplace Furnishings makes office seating, desks, storage, tables, panel systems and ancillary
  furnishings sold through independent dealers under the HON, Allsteel, Gunlocke, HBF and Kimball International brands. Residential
  Building Products is the hearth business, operated by Hearth & Home Technologies under the Heatilator, Heat & Glo, Majestic,
  Monessen, Quadra-Fire, Harman, SimpliFire and PelPro brands. HNI publishes no developer portal, REST API or OpenAPI for
  either segment. Its one public machine-readable surface is the agent-commerce stack on the Hearth & Home Technologies storefront
  at hearthnhome.com, which serves an llms.txt, a Universal Commerce Protocol merchant profile and an anonymous MCP endpoint
  exposing 13 catalog, cart and checkout tools.'
tags:
- Fortune 1000
- Manufacturing
- Office Furniture
- Workplace
- Building Products
- Hearth
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
- MCP
tags_raw:
- Fortune 1000
- Manufacturing
- Office Furniture
- Workplace
- Building Products
- Hearth
- Retail
- E-Commerce
- Agent Commerce
- MCP
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
  url: http://apievangelist.com
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: true
  label: Platform-hosted agent commerce endpoint on a company-owned host; no licensed API product on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - https://hearthnhome.com/api/ucp/mcp
  generated: '2026-09-13'
  method: probed
accessModel:
  pricing: free
  onboarding: self-service
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: true
  label: Open discovery, gated execution — tools/list is anonymous, tools/call needs an agent profile and a JWT
  confidence: medium
  generated: '2026-09-13'
  method: probed
  source:
  - url: https://hearthnhome.com/api/ucp/mcp
    status: 200
    note: JSON-RPC tools/list returned all 13 tools with full inputSchemas and no Authorization header; tools/call on the
      same endpoint returned -32000 AuthenticationRequired (a Shopify agent JWT) and -32001 invalid_profile_url (a fetchable
      meta.ucp-agent.profile URI) — discovery is open, execution is gated (probed 2026-09-13)
  - url: https://www.hni.com
    status: 301
    note: the previously recorded website hni.com 301s to acrisure.com/midwest — that is HNI Risk Services / Acrisure Midwest,
      a DIFFERENT company; HNI Corporation is www.hnicorp.com (probed 2026-09-13, roadmap#169)
apis:
- aid: hni:hearth-home-agent-commerce
  name: Hearth & Home Technologies Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP)
  humanURL: https://hearthnhome.com/agents.md
  baseURL: https://hearthnhome.com/api/ucp/mcp
  tags:
  - Agentic Commerce
  - MCP
  - Catalog
  - Cart
  - Checkout
  tags_raw:
  - Agent Commerce
  - MCP
  - Catalog
  - Cart
  - Checkout
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/hni-mcp.yml
  - type: LLMsTxt
    url: llms/hni-llms.txt
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://hearthnhome.com/agents.md
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/hni-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/hni-scopes.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/hni-rate-limits.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/hni-problem-types.yml
  - type: DataModel
    url: data-model/hni-data-model.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/hni-conventions.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/hni-lifecycle.yml
  description: The Hearth & Home Technologies storefront implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) over an anonymous
    Model Context Protocol endpoint. A tools/list probe on 2026-09-13 returned 13 tools — search_catalog, lookup_catalog,
    get_product, get_cart, create_cart, update_cart, cancel_cart, get_checkout, create_checkout, update_checkout, complete_checkout,
    cancel_checkout and get_order — each with a full JSON Schema inputSchema. Tool discovery is anonymous; tool execution
    requires a fetchable UCP agent profile URI and a Shopify agent JWT. The runtime is Shopify's platform UCP implementation
    served on HNI's own brand host against HNI's own catalog.
  x-surface: platform-generated
  x-platform: shopify
  x-platform-surface: ucp
common:
- url: https://www.hnicorp.com/rss.xml
  type: BlogRSS
- type: Website
  url: https://www.hnicorp.com
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/hni-corporation
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.hnicorp.com/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://www.hnicorp.com/terms-of-use
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/hni-domain-security.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/hni-well-known.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/hni-llms.txt
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/hni-conformance.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/hni-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/hni-scopes.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/hni-conventions.yml
- type: Idempotency
  url: conventions/hni-conventions.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/hni-lifecycle.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/hni-rate-limits.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/hni-plans-pricing.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/hni-packages.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/hni-problem-types.yml
- type: DataModel
  url: data-model/hni-data-model.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/hni-mcp.yml
- type: UsageTerms
  url: terms/hni-terms-of-service.yml
- type: DataProcessing
  url: privacy/hni-privacy-policy.yml
- type: Eligibility
  url: eligibility/hni-eligibility.yml
- type: AIPreferences
  url: ai-preferences/hni-ai-preferences.yml
- type: DataLicense
  url: data-license/hni-data-license.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-09-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 21
  pass: local-v3
x-legal-name: HNI Corporation

HNI API — frequently asked questions

Does HNI have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from HNI, including Hearth & Home Technologies Agent Commerce (UCP/MCP).

How do I authenticate with the HNI API?

HNI documents its authentication (4 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as HNI Authentication.

Does HNI have an MCP server?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for HNI: Remote MCP server at hearthnhome.com requiring OAuth; 13 tools listed.

Is the HNI API ready for AI agents?

HNI has a Kin Score of 18.1 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 27.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.

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