Shelf Engine

Shelf Engine was a Seattle-based technology company that used machine learning and AI-driven demand forecasting to help grocery retailers reduce food waste and optimize ordering of perishable and fresh food items. It offered a guaranteed-order model where its forecasting engine predicted demand and absorbed the risk of unsold inventory. Shelf Engine was acquired by / merged into Crisp (gocrisp.com), the retail data platform, and its independent brand is now defunct: shelfengine.com 301-redirects to gocrisp.com. No independent public API, developer portal, SDKs, or OpenAPI surface is published under the Shelf Engine brand.

Shelf Engine is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Grocery, Retail, Food Waste, and Demand Forecasting.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyGroceryRetailFood WasteDemand ForecastingInventory ManagementSupply ChainArtificial IntelligenceMachine Learning

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Security Posture 1

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

Shelf Engine Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

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Resources

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

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Company 1

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Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: shelf-engine
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/shelf-engine.png
name: Shelf Engine
description: 'Shelf Engine was a Seattle-based technology company that used machine learning and AI-driven demand forecasting
  to help grocery retailers reduce food waste and optimize ordering of perishable and fresh food items. It offered a guaranteed-order
  model where its forecasting engine predicted demand and absorbed the risk of unsold inventory. Shelf Engine was acquired
  by / merged into Crisp (gocrisp.com), the retail data platform, and its independent brand is now defunct: shelfengine.com
  301-redirects to gocrisp.com. No independent public API, developer portal, SDKs, or OpenAPI surface is published under the
  Shelf Engine brand.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/shelf-engine/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- general-catalyst
- ggv-capital
- initialized-capital
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: acquired
x-acquired-by: crisp
x-acquired-note: shelfengine.com 301-redirects to gocrisp.com; independent brand defunct
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Grocery
- Retail
- Food Waste
- Demand Forecasting
- Inventory Management
- Supply Chain
- Artificial Intelligence
- Machine Learning
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/shelf-engine-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.shelfengine.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 1
  pass: local-v1