Machine-readable packaging
Teal Packaging supports agentic commerce: an AI agent can search the catalog, read a real per-unit price, request a quote, and order a sample kit without a person opening a browser. Teal publishes an MCP server, a product feed, a machine-readable pricing file, and an llms.txt for exactly that purpose.
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Key Takeaway
Teal Packaging exposes its custom packaging business to AI agents through a public Model Context Protocol server at tealpackaging.com/mcp with 7 tools, an OpenAI-native daily product feed containing 100 exact variant-and-quantity offers across 80 eligible shop products, a machine-readable pricing summary at pricing.md, and llms.txt. No API key is required to search the catalog, read live per-unit prices, or file a quote request. Custom orders start from 50 units, or 100 or more for specialty rigid, from about $0.44 per unit at volume, with production from about 7 business days after proof approval plus 2 to 5 business days for US delivery.
Questions or ready for a quote? Contact Teal Packaging at info@tealpackaging.com or (224) 546-8325.
Start here
It means the boring half of sourcing stops being your job.
Buying custom packaging has always involved a long, manual discovery phase. You describe a box to a supplier, wait for a reply, ask what it costs at 500 units instead of 250, ask again about a different board, and repeat that across three or four vendors before you have anything comparable. Most of that work is retrieval, not judgment.
Agentic commerce moves the retrieval to software. You ask an assistant for rigid boxes at 500 units with a soft-touch finish, and the assistant queries suppliers directly, pulls back real prices and real minimums, and puts a comparison in front of you. The judgment stays with you. The fetching does not.
For that to work, a supplier has to publish machine-readable answers. A PDF line card and a contact form are invisible to an agent. Teal publishes the catalog, the prices, the minimums, and the quote path as endpoints an agent can call, which is why an agent can answer a question about Teal without guessing.
The surfaces
Five public surfaces, each with a different job. All of them are live and none of them need a key to read.
| Surface | Address | What it is for |
|---|---|---|
| MCP server | /mcp | Tool calling for AI assistants. Catalog search, product detail, live shop pricing, checkout links, quote requests, sample kit. No authentication. |
| Product feed | /feeds/openai-products.tsv | OpenAI-native feed containing 100 exact variant-and-quantity offers across 80 eligible shop products, with full order total, availability, image, and configuration-restoring link. Regenerated daily. |
| Pricing summary | /pricing.md | Markdown pricing reference an agent can read in one fetch instead of crawling product pages. |
| Site map for models | /llms.txt | Plain-text index of the pages worth citing, with the claim scope that keeps an answer accurate. |
| Integration guide | /agents.md | Written for the agent developer. Covers the protocols Teal speaks and how payment settles. |
End to end
Four steps, each one a single tool call against the MCP server.
The agent calls search_products with a plain description of the need, such as a magnetic rigid box or a stand-up pouch. It gets back matching products from the catalog with links and starting prices. If the buyer wants something orderable online today, search_shop_products returns matches from the 81 shop products instead, each with its own minimum order.
For a shop product, get_shop_price takes a slug and a quantity and returns the variant specification, the unit price, the order total that checkout will actually charge, and the full quantity price ladder. It returns an error rather than a guess if the quantity sits below that product minimum. For anything custom, price comes from a quote.
The agent calls request_quote and carries the whole specification across in one call: product, quantity, dimensions, material, print, finishing, and deadline. The request lands in the sales system and a specialist replies by email within one business day with exact per-unit pricing.
Before committing to a run, the buyer usually wants to hold the board. order_sample_kit returns a secure Stripe checkout link for the free sample kit, which costs $19.99 shipping and is credited toward the first order. An ACP-capable agent can complete that purchase programmatically instead.
Honest limits
Sizes, materials, print coverage, and finishing are priced by a person, because unit cost on a custom structure depends on how those choices interact. An agent can carry the entire specification into the quote request, which saves the back and forth, but it cannot skip the quote and it cannot invent a price.
Every custom order gets a digital proof before anything prints, with 2 revision rounds included. Approval is a human decision on purpose. Production time is counted from proof approval, not from the order date, which is why timelines on this site are always stated that way.
The MCP server never charges anything. It hands back a checkout link and the buyer pays on the secure page. Programmatic payment is deliberately separated into the Agentic Commerce Protocol endpoint, which uses OAuth2 client credentials rather than the open, unauthenticated MCP surface.
Try it
One command in the Claude Code CLI. The full configuration, including the JSON form other clients use, is on the MCP server page.
claude mcp add --transport http teal https://tealpackaging.com/mcpThe numbers an agent will return
Custom orders start from 50 units, or 100 or more for specialty rigid, with pricing from about $0.44 per unit at volume. Production runs from about 7 business days after proof approval, plus 2 to 5 business days for US delivery. Rush runs from about 4 to 7 business days after proof approval on qualified ready-to-print jobs. Free dieline design, free US shipping, full-color print, 2 revision rounds, and a digital proof are included. FSC-certified paper options, food-contact material options, and BSCI certified production are each available by specification with documentation provided for the order.
Teal is a US company with two production facilities, in West Chicago, Illinois and Guangzhou, and each job is routed to the facility that fits its specification.
Next steps
The sample kit is free with $19.99 shipping, credited toward your first order. For integration questions, call (224) 546-8325 or email info@tealpackaging.com.
Agentic commerce is buying where an AI agent does the searching, pricing, and ordering steps instead of a person clicking through a website. For packaging it means an agent can find a box style, read a real per-unit price at a quantity, file a quote request with the full specification, and order a sample kit, all through machine endpoints rather than a browser form.
Yes. Teal runs a Model Context Protocol server at https://tealpackaging.com/mcp. It speaks Streamable HTTP with JSON-RPC 2.0, requires no API key and no account, and exposes 7 tools covering catalog search, product detail, live shop pricing, checkout links, quote requests, and the sample kit. The server card is published at https://tealpackaging.com/.well-known/mcp.json.
Partly. An agent can complete the sample kit purchase on its own, and it can hand a buyer a merchant-owned checkout link for any of the 81 shop products that carry live pricing. A full custom order still needs a human, because the specification is quoted by a person and a digital proof is approved before anything prints.
Four machine-readable files plus the MCP server. The files are llms.txt as a site map for language models, pricing.md as a pricing summary, an OpenAI-native product feed at /feeds/openai-products.tsv containing 100 exact variant-and-quantity offers across 80 eligible shop products, and agents.md as the integration guide. Discovery documents sit under /.well-known/.
No. The MCP server declares authentication type none in its server card, so an agent can connect and call tools immediately. Programmatic payment through the Agentic Commerce Protocol endpoint is separate and does use OAuth2 client credentials.
Custom orders start from 50 units, and specialty rigid structures start at 100 or more. Pricing runs from about $0.44 per unit at volume. The 81 products in the online shop set their own minimums per product, which an agent reads directly from the shop pricing tools.
Production runs from about 7 business days after proof approval, plus 2 to 5 business days for US delivery. Rush runs from about 4 to 7 business days after proof approval on qualified ready-to-print jobs. An agent cannot compress proof approval, because a human still signs off on the proof.
No. Every surface described on this page is public and open. There is no partner agreement, no waitlist, and no per-call fee to read the catalog, read prices, or file a quote request through an agent.