# GazeHawk

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/gazehawk/  
**Website:** https://gazehawk.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

GazeHawk was a webcam-based eye-tracking startup founded in December 2009 by Brian Krausz and Joe Gershenson, offering affordable eye-tracking usability and ad-testing services that ran on ordinary consumer webcams instead of expensive dedicated hardware. Backed by Y Combinator (S10) and 500 Startups, the company was acqui-hired by Facebook in March 2012 — Facebook hired the engineering team but explicitly did not acquire the product or technology, and the founders moved on to unrelated backend and product engineering. GazeHawk operated no public API, developer portal, or SDKs; the domain today serves only a legacy static marketing and blog site for the defunct product.

## Kin Score — 5.5 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 2.4 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Unknown — onboarding: unknown, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: low).

## Tags

Company, Eye Tracking, Usability, Advertising, Analytics, User Research, Defunct, Acqui-hire

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/gazehawk/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.