# The Black Tux

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/the-black-tux/  
**Website:** https://theblacktux.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 17.1 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-21 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 17.1).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 61.1 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 19.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Security (1)

- **The Black Tux Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Formalwear, E-Commerce, Retail, Rentals, Weddings, Apparel, Direct to Consumer

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/the-black-tux/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.