Cruz Foam
Cruz Foam is a circular materials company founded in 2017 in Santa Cruz, California by John Felts and Marco Rolandi out of research at the UC Santa Cruz Baskin School of Engineering. It makes a certified compostable replacement for expanded polystyrene, built from chitin recovered from shrimp and crustacean shells that would otherwise go to landfill, combined with starches and fibers diverted from agricultural waste streams. Its products include Cruz Foam protective packaging, Cruz Cool insulated cold-chain shippers, and EcoVino wine shippers, sold to consumer brands, appliance manufacturers, seafood and cold-chain shippers, and direct-to-consumer retailers. The company was named to TIME's Best Inventions of 2023 and Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies in 2024. Cruz Foam is a materials manufacturer rather than a software vendor, and publishes no commercial or developer-facing product API, no developer portal, and no SDKs. The only machine-readable interface it exposes is the WordPress REST content API behind its corporate website at cruzfoam.com, which is captured here for discovery purposes and is anonymously readable but read-only.
Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.
API Evangelist profiles Cruz Foam the way a machine reads it — 23 machine-readable artifacts across 9 APIs, pulled from the provider's own public surface and indexed so a developer, an analyst, or an AI agent can evaluate it against every other provider on the network.
Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — Cruz Foam scores 32.2/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 51/100 (agent ready). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.
Kin Score
This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.
Kin Score
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How we profile Cruz Foam
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Cruz Foam. For each we say what it is and why it earns a place in the profile, then list every one we've indexed — capped at two rows, scroll within the panel for the rest.
APIs 9
Each API is captured as its own OpenAPI definition — every operation, parameter, and response. This is the single most useful machine-readable description of what an API does, and it's what lets us score, lint, mock, and generate against it without asking the provider for anything.
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Cruz Foam Posts API
Public, unauthenticated read access to the Cruz Foam news and blog archive via the WordPress core REST API. Verified live at 139 published posts.
Cruz Foam Pages API
Public, unauthenticated read access to the static marketing and policy pages of cruzfoam.com — Products, Science, Impact, About Us, Partners, Customers, Careers, Press, Contact,...
Cruz Foam Customers API
Public, unauthenticated read access to the Cruz Foam customer showcase — the site-specific `customers` custom post type behind cruzfoam.com/customers/, listing the brands that s...
Cruz Foam Media API
Public, unauthenticated read access to the media library behind cruzfoam.com — product photography, material and science imagery, and press assets with their generated size vari...
Cruz Foam Taxonomy API
Public, unauthenticated read access to the classification vocabularies behind cruzfoam.com: post categories, post tags, and the site-specific portfolio-categories taxonomy that ...
Cruz Foam Search API
Public, unauthenticated cross-content search over cruzfoam.com — posts, pages and the customer showcase — returning lightweight id / title / url / type / subtype records. Verifi...
Cruz Foam Discovery API
Public, unauthenticated discovery metadata for cruzfoam.com — the self-describing route index (487 routes across 18 namespaces at capture), the registered content types and taxo...
Cruz Foam oEmbed API
Public oEmbed 1.0 provider endpoint for cruzfoam.com URLs, returning embeddable rich metadata — title, author, thumbnail and iframe HTML — for any post, page or customer showcas...
Cruz Foam SEO Metadata API
Public Yoast SEO head endpoint returning the rendered head metadata and its parsed JSON-LD schema.org graph for any cruzfoam.com URL — a structured-data view of every page witho...
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Open Collections 9
Open, tool-agnostic collections carry the same runnable value as Postman without locking you to one client — the portable, forkable form of the same exercise.
Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).
Cruz Foam Customers API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam Discovery API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam Media API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam oEmbed API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam Pages API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam Posts API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam Search API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam SEO Metadata API
OPEN COLLECTIONCruz Foam Taxonomy API
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Pricing Plans 1
Pricing is part of the interface. Machine-readable plans tell you what a tier costs and includes before you commit — one of the six things the Kin Score reads for commercial clarity.
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Rate limits are the difference between a demo that works and a production integration that doesn't fall over. Publishing them is an operational-transparency signal — and a hard requirement for any agent that plans its own throughput.
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Cruz Foam Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSSecurity Posture 2
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals — the evidence that a provider takes security seriously enough to document it. We profile it because you can't govern what you can't see.
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Agentic Access 1
An x-agentic-access contract marks which operations are safe for an agent to run on its own and which need a human in the loop. It is the difference between an API an agent can use and one it can use safely.
Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Cruz Foam — documentation, portals, status pages, policies, and corporate surface — grouped by the job it does, following the integrator's arc from getting started to running in production.
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 5
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 2
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 2
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Commercial 3
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Company 11
The organization behind the API
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Other 2
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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