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RYSE

RYSE (legal name RYSE USA Inc.) is a consumer IoT and smart-home hardware company that retrofits existing window coverings with motorization. Its product line — SmartShade, SmartShade + BatteryPack, SmartCurtain, SmartBridge and SmartButton — motorizes shades, blinds and curtains a household already owns, and pairs them to Amazon Alexa, Google Home and Apple HomeKit through the SmartBridge add-on, plus a first-party Homey Pro app. RYSE publishes no traditional developer program: there is no developer portal, no OpenAPI, no GitHub organization and no device or cloud API for the shade hardware itself. What RYSE does publish, on its own helloryse.com hosts, is a substantial agent-commerce surface: an llms.txt and agents.md, a Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) discovery document at /.well-known/ucp, and three live, anonymously-introspectable MCP servers covering catalog search, cart, checkout and customer order status.

agent aware

Limited machine-readable signal and partial portal coverage — documentation a human can read, but little a machine or agent can consume without scraping.

Kin Score

API Evangelist profiles RYSE the way a machine reads it — 9 machine-readable artifacts across 3 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 — RYSE scores 26.4/100 (thin), with a separate agent-readiness read of 28/100 (agent aware). 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. Every facet and dimension name is a link: it opens that measurement's page on APIs.io, where the rating runs across the whole catalog — the exact checks that feed it, how every profiled provider distributes on it, and who is at the top of it.

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scored 2026-09-01 · rubric v0.18.0
Composite quality — 26.4/100 · thin
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Access Clarity 8.9 / 20
Discoverability 8.2 / 10
Agent readiness — 28/100 · agent aware
MCP Server documented 4.8 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth served 9.0 / 10
Idempotency documented 4.5 / 9
Stable Error Semantics documented 4.0 / 8
Rate-Limit Signaling documented 3.5 / 7
Agent Skills derived 1.3 / 5
Agentic Commerce Surface platform 1.3 / 5
RYSE Kin Score — API readiness rating by API Evangelist

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How we profile RYSE

Each block below is one kind of artifact we hold for RYSE. 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 3

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.

RYSE UCP Commerce MCP

RYSE's Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) shopping service, exposed over MCP at https://www.helloryse.com/api/ucp/mcp. Anonymous tools/list returns 13 tools with full JSON Schema...

RYSE Storefront MCP

Shopify Storefront MCP served at https://www.helloryse.com/api/mcp. Anonymous tools/list returns 5 tools — search_catalog, get_cart, update_cart, get_product_details and search_...

RYSE Customer Account MCP

Customer-account MCP served at https://account.helloryse.com/customer/api/mcp. Anonymous tools/list returns 4 tools — get_most_recent_order_status, get_order_status, get_store_c...

MCP Servers 1

Model Context Protocol servers expose these APIs directly to AI agents. We profile them because agent-native access is the fastest-growing way this provider's capabilities actually get used.

Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.

RYSE MCP Server

MCP SERVER

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 things the Kin Score reads for access clarity — renamed from commercial clarity in rubric 0.12, because a free statutory interface has access terms and no commercial ones.

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Ryse Plans Pricing

0 plans

PLANS

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.

Ryse Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security 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.

Ryse Authentication

3 schemes

SECURITY

Ryse Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes are the vocabulary of least-privilege access. Profiling them shows exactly what an integration — or an agent acting on a user's behalf — is allowed to do.

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Ryse Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Every other property we hold for RYSE — 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 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Build 2

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 3

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Company 2

The organization behind the API

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Where this information came from

This is an independent, third-party profile of RYSE, published by API Evangelist. We do not operate, host, resell, or support these APIs, and we are not affiliated with or endorsed by the company unless stated above. Everything here is built from publicly available information — the company's own site, developer portal, documentation, public repositories, and the specifications it publishes for public use. Nothing is obtained by breaching a system, defeating an access control, or using credentials.

The Kin Score and Agent Readiness rating are independently calculated assessments of a company's public API artifacts, scored against a published rubric. They are not certifications, endorsements, security assessments, or audits.

Corrections, re-scores, and removal are free — no partnership or purchase required, and you do not need to justify the request. A removed company is recorded as unrated, never scored zero for having asked. Acknowledgement within one business day; removal within two.

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