The Black Tux

The Black Tux is an online formalwear company offering premium suit and tuxedo rentals and purchases for weddings and formal events. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, it pairs a direct-to-consumer online store with roughly 50 physical showrooms nationwide, home try-on, group wedding coordination with party pricing, free shipping over $200, and a perfect-fit guarantee. The storefront runs on Shopify; The Black Tux does not publish a first-party developer API. The only machine-readable surface on the domain is Shopify's managed Customer Account identity service (OIDC / OAuth authorization server discovery). This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Menlo Ventures and enriched with the verifiable public identity and web properties the company genuinely publishes.

The Black Tux is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Formalwear, E-Commerce, Retail, and Rentals.

The Black Tux’s developer surface includes getting-started guide, support, engineering blog, signup flow, and 6 more developer resources.

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17.1/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

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CompanyFormalwearE-Commerce Retail Rentals Weddings Apparel Direct to Consumer

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scored 2026-08-21 · rubric v0.12.0

Composite quality — 17.1/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 3.8 / 20

Access Clarity 6.8 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.3 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 6.1 / 10

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

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Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

GettingStarted

GettingStarted

SignUp

SignUp

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

WellKnown

WellKnown

Build 1

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GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

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DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: the-black-tux
name: The Black Tux
description: The Black Tux is an online formalwear company offering premium suit and tuxedo rentals and purchases for weddings
  and formal events. Founded in 2013 and headquartered in Santa Monica, California, it pairs a direct-to-consumer online store
  with roughly 50 physical showrooms nationwide, home try-on, group wedding coordination with party pricing, free shipping
  over $200, and a perfect-fit guarantee. The storefront runs on Shopify; The Black Tux does not publish a first-party developer
  API. The only machine-readable surface on the domain is Shopify's managed Customer Account identity service (OIDC / OAuth
  authorization server discovery). This profile was surfaced as a portfolio company of Menlo Ventures and enriched with the
  verifiable public identity and web properties the company genuinely publishes.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/the-black-tux/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0705/6071/0947/files/Promo_Social_1200x628_a90379ac-6a42-4fdb-b739-30d203bff8e7.png?v=1760728845
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- menlo-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-21'
tags:
- Company
- Formalwear
- E-Commerce
- Retail
- Rentals
- Weddings
- Apparel
- Direct to Consumer
tags_raw:
- Company
- Formalwear
- Ecommerce
- Retail
- Rental
- Weddings
- Apparel
- Direct to Consumer
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/the-black-tux-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://theblacktux.com/
- type: GettingStarted
  name: How Renting Works
  url: https://theblacktux.com/pages/how-renting-works
- type: Support
  name: Contact Us
  url: https://theblacktux.com/pages/contact-us
- type: Blog
  name: The Journal
  url: https://theblacktux.com/blogs/news
- type: SignUp
  name: Sign in / Create account
  url: https://theblacktux.com/account/login
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://theblacktux.com/pages/terms-of-service
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://theblacktux.com/pages/privacy-policy
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/TheBlackTuxCorp
- type: WellKnown
  name: Well-known discovery surface
  url: well-known/the-black-tux-well-known.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-21'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 4
  pass: local-v1

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