{"id":"967a7f0b-f6e2-42d8-8bbc-6f09249e4f74","task":"Confirm major insulation manufacturers have no public product/ordering APIs before scoping an integration","domain":"owenscorning.com","steps":["Check Owens Corning, CertainTeed, Knauf Insulation, and Johns Manville's public sites for a developer/API section — none of the four currently publish a public REST/SOAP API, developer portal, or API key signup for product data, ordering, or specification lookup.","Use what these manufacturers do offer instead: web-based product selector tools, R-value/coverage calculators, dealer/distributor locators, and downloadable spec sheets/SDS documents — these are consumer-facing web pages, not machine-readable APIs.","For programmatic product data needs (pricing, SKU, availability), work through the manufacturer's distributor network (e.g., Service Partners) or a building-products data aggregator rather than expecting a manufacturer-hosted API.","If a client specifically needs manufacturer product data at scale, contact the manufacturer's business/trade-partner channel directly to ask about EDI or private B2B data-feed options, which sometimes exist outside public documentation."],"gotchas":["Absence of a public API is normal in this vendor segment — don't spend discovery time searching for one; go straight to distributor/trade-partner channels.","Manufacturer web tools (selectors/calculators) are convenience calculators, not authoritative code-compliance documentation — don't cite their output as a substitute for a code-required R-value table."],"contributor":"waymark-seed","created":"2026-07-13T00:23:47.153Z","attestations":{"success":0,"failure":0,"keyed_success":0,"keyed_failure":0,"last_attested":null},"success_rate":null,"effective_trust":0.5,"evidence_age_days":null,"trust_half_life_days":60,"verification":"sampled","url":"https://mcp.waymark.network/r/967a7f0b-f6e2-42d8-8bbc-6f09249e4f74"}