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Ellis Coffee Company

Ellis Coffee Company is a Philadelphia-based wholesale coffee roaster founded in 1854 and now in its fourth generation of family ownership. Ellis supplies coffee, tea, hot chocolate, brewing equipment, and POS materials to restaurants, hotels, resorts, office coffee service (OCS) programs, convenience stores, universities, distributors, and vending operators. Customers place and manage orders through deliver.elliscoffee.com and request brewing equipment service through the OnUpkeep portal. Ellis Coffee Company does not publish a public developer API, OpenAPI definition, webhook program, SDK, or status page.

human only

Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles Ellis Coffee Company the way a machine reads it — 11 machine-readable artifacts, 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 — Ellis Coffee Company scores 7.2/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). 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 Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.4 / 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

How we profile Ellis Coffee Company

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Ellis Coffee Company. 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.

Features 5

The notable capabilities this provider advertises, captured as structured features so they can be searched and compared instead of read one landing page at a time.

Notable capabilities this provider offers.

Coffee Roasting

Whole bean, ground, flavored, espresso, cold brew, filter pack, and E-Cup coffee programs roasted in Philadelphia

Tea And Beverages

Sweet Brew Tea and Lemonades, hot chocolate, and Smartfruit Refreshers for foodservice and office accounts

Equipment And Service

Brewing equipment placement and service through the OnUpkeep service portal

Sustainability Programs

Sustainable coffee sourcing options across the wholesale catalog

POS And Signage

Point-of-sale materials and branded signage supplied to wholesale customers

Security Posture 1

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.

Ellis Coffee Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · DMARC

SECURITY

Use Cases 5

What developers actually build with this provider — captured so the catalogue answers 'what is this for', not just 'what does this expose'.

What developers build with this provider.

Restaurant Coffee Programs

Wholesale coffee, tea, and equipment supply for restaurant and quick-service operators

Hotel And Resort Beverage Service

Branded coffee programs for hotels, resorts, and hospitality groups

Office Coffee Service

Office Coffee Service (OCS) programs with brewing equipment and recurring delivery

Convenience Store Coffee

C-store coffee programs including filter pack and flavored coffee

University And Vending

Coffee supply for university dining services and vending operators

Resources

Every other property we hold for Ellis Coffee Company — 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.

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Learn 1

Tutorials, courses, talks, and written guidance

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

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