The Beard Club

The Beard Club is a men's grooming and beard-care brand selling beard oils, balms, washes, aftershave, grooming kits, trimmers, and subscription grooming boxes through its Shopify-powered online store at thebeardclub.com. Beyond the consumer storefront, the store is agent-commerce ready: it implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) with a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, a machine-readable /llms.txt and /agents.md, UCP service discovery at /.well-known/ucp, Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect authentication, and read-only product and collection JSON endpoints — so AI shopping assistants can search the catalog, build carts, and complete buyer-approved checkouts programmatically.

The Beard Club publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, E-Commerce, Retail, Men’s Grooming, and Consumer Goods.

The Beard Club’s developer surface includes documentation, authentication, and 11 more developer resources.

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18.6/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 21/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

AccessSelf serve

1 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company E-Commerce RetailMen's GroomingConsumer Goods Shopify Agent Commerce UCP MCP Subscription

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 18.6/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 4.6 / 20

Access Clarity 4.2 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 2.2 / 12

Discoverability 7.6 / 10

Agent readiness — 21/100 · 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 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 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 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.

The Beard Club UCP Shopping MCP

Native Shopify Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) shopping service, exposed as a Model Context Protocol endpoint for agent-driven commerce — catalog search, cart, chec...

MCP Servers 1

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

The Beard Club MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 2

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

The Beard Club Authentication

oauth2/openIdConnect · 1 scheme

SECURITY

The Beard Club Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

The Beard Club Scopes

4 scopes · authorizationCode

4 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

LLMsTxt

MCPServer

WellKnown

AgentSkill

Design & Contract 2

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Conformance

Conformance

Conventions

Conventions

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Authentication

Authentication

OAuthScopes

OAuthScopes

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Source (apis.yml)

aid: the-beard-club
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: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - authentication
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/the-beard-club.png
name: The Beard Club
description: 'The Beard Club is a men''s grooming and beard-care brand selling beard oils, balms, washes, aftershave, grooming
  kits, trimmers, and subscription grooming boxes through its Shopify-powered online store at thebeardclub.com. Beyond the
  consumer storefront, the store is agent-commerce ready: it implements the Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) with
  a native Model Context Protocol (MCP) endpoint at /api/ucp/mcp, a machine-readable /llms.txt and /agents.md, UCP service
  discovery at /.well-known/ucp, Shopify Customer Account OpenID Connect authentication, and read-only product and collection
  JSON endpoints — so AI shopping assistants can search the catalog, build carts, and complete buyer-approved checkouts programmatically.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-beard-club/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Men's Grooming
- Consumer Goods
- Shopify
- Agent Commerce
- UCP
- MCP
- Subscription
tags_raw:
- Company
- E-commerce
- Retail
- Men's Grooming
- Consumer Goods
- Shopify
- Agent Commerce
- UCP
- MCP
- Subscription
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
apis:
- name: The Beard Club UCP Shopping MCP
  description: Native Shopify Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP 2026-04-08) shopping service, exposed as a Model Context Protocol
    endpoint for agent-driven commerce — catalog search, cart, checkout, fulfillment, discount, and order capabilities. Checkout
    completion requires contemporaneous buyer approval.
  humanURL: https://thebeardclub.com/llms.txt
  baseURL: https://thebeardclub.com/api/ucp/mcp
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/the-beard-club-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/the-beard-club-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/the-beard-club-scopes.yml
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://thebeardclub.com
- type: Documentation
  url: https://thebeardclub.com/llms.txt
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/the-beard-club-llms.txt
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/the-beard-club-mcp.yml
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/the-beard-club-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/the-beard-club-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/the-beard-club-scopes.yml
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/the-beard-club-conformance.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/the-beard-club-conventions.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-beard-club-domain-security.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://thebeardclub.com/policies/privacy-policy
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://thebeardclub.com/policies/terms-of-service
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 13
  pass: local-v1

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