Foundation Building Materials
Foundation Building Materials (FBM) is a leading North American distributor of interior building products — drywall, steel framing, acoustic ceilings, insulation, and complementary construction supplies — serving commercial and residential contractors across the United States and Canada. Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, FBM operates a national branch network and a unified customer ordering platform at myfbm.com (consolidating the legacy fbmsales.com, MyRIS, and MyFBM portals) along with iOS/Android mobile apps for contractors. In April 2025, FBM acquired KCG/Rew Materials, adding 800 employees and 45 distribution branches across 23 states. In August 2025, Lowe's announced an agreement to acquire FBM. Brand families operating under FBM include FBM, RIS, Pacific Source, and Unified Door. FBM does not currently expose any public developer APIs, OpenAPI documentation, partner integration program, SDK, or GitHub organization — its digital surface is limited to buyer-facing e-commerce (search, ordering, order tracking, quick-order PDF/photo ingestion via "Quick Order Entry") rather than a developer/integration product.
More than an index entry, but the surface is still mostly links rather than artifacts — the cohort most likely to move a full band from modest, well-targeted work.
API Evangelist profiles Foundation Building Materials the way a machine reads it — 1 machine-readable artifact, 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 — Foundation Building Materials scores 17.9/100 (emerging), 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
How this is scored →scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
How we profile Foundation Building Materials
Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for Foundation Building Materials. 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.
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.
Resources
Every other property we hold for Foundation Building Materials — 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 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 1
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Access & Security 2
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 3
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Company 3
The organization behind the API
Other 1
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
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