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Kana

Kana is an agentic AI growth and marketing platform that helps brands discover high-precision audiences, optimize acquisition efficiency, and stay visible across AI-driven discovery environments such as LLM answer engines, search copilots, and autonomous agents. Founded by martech veterans Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya (previously Rapt, acquired by Microsoft, and Krux, acquired by Salesforce) and incubated in the super{set} startup studio, Kana raised a $15M seed round led by Mayfield in February 2026. The platform orchestrates specialized AI agents that reason over customer data, plan multi-step workflows, and recommend next-best actions across a suite of purpose-built applications: Campaign Orchestrator, Marketing Intelligence, Personalization, Synthetic Data Generation, Media Proposal Generator, Category Intelligence, Audience Builder, OmniChannel Media Planner, and an Agentic Data Platform. Proprietary just-in-time data integration connects to existing CRM, CDP, marketing-automation, and data-warehouse systems without disruptive infrastructure changes, keeping a human-in-the-loop review step. Kana ships no public developer portal, but its application host apps.kana.ai does expose a real callable surface: an OAuth 2.0 authorization server whose RFC 8414 metadata is served anonymously and declares MCP protocol 2025-03-26 with mcp:read / mcp:write / kana:read / kana:write scopes, plus a per-deployment MCP endpoint and an api-key-authenticated Skill API for running pipelines and retrieving their outputs. Everything but the OAuth metadata sits behind a 401, so this profile captures Kana's public identity, legal/compliance posture, authentication and scope model, and the shape of the gated API surface.

Kana publishes 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Marketing, Artificial Intelligence, Agentic AI, and Marketing Technology.

Kana’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, getting-started guide, signup flow, authentication, and 17 more developer resources.

28.6/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 24/100 agent aware saas Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
2 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyMarketingArtificial IntelligenceAgentic AIMarketing TechnologyAudience IntelligenceCustomer Data PlatformAI Search OptimizationGrowth

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Create-or-Update Ergonomics could not be measured. We hold no machine-readable contract for this provider to read, so there is nothing to measure a write surface against. Excluded rather than scored zero: never-measured and measured-empty are different facts. Publishing an OpenAPI is what makes this facet — and several others — scorable at all.
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APIs 2

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Kana Skill API

The callable surface a deployed Kana pipeline ("skill") exposes on the Kana application host. POST /skill/{pipelineid} starts a run and returns a runid; GET /run/{runid}/status ...

Kana MCP Server

Kana exposes each deployed agent/orchestrator as a remote MCP server at https://apps.kana.ai/mcp/{public access key}, fronted by the platform's OAuth 2.0 authorization server (P...

MCP Servers 1

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

Kana MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kana Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kana Rate Limits

0 limits

RATE LIMITS

Security Posture 2

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kana Authentication

2 schemes

SECURITY

Kana Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Scopes 1

OAuth scopes governing access to this provider's APIs.

Kana Scopes

OAuth 2.0 · no documented scopes

0 scopes

SCOPES

Resources

Get Started 2

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

Agent Surfaces 3

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

Design & Contract 4

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

Access & Security 4

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

Operate 3

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑
aid: kana
name: Kana
description: 'Kana is an agentic AI growth and marketing platform that helps brands discover high-precision audiences, optimize
  acquisition efficiency, and stay visible across AI-driven discovery environments such as LLM answer engines, search copilots,
  and autonomous agents. Founded by martech veterans Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya (previously Rapt, acquired by Microsoft,
  and Krux, acquired by Salesforce) and incubated in the super{set} startup studio, Kana raised a $15M seed round led by Mayfield
  in February 2026. The platform orchestrates specialized AI agents that reason over customer data, plan multi-step workflows,
  and recommend next-best actions across a suite of purpose-built applications: Campaign Orchestrator, Marketing Intelligence,
  Personalization, Synthetic Data Generation, Media Proposal Generator, Category Intelligence, Audience Builder, OmniChannel
  Media Planner, and an Agentic Data Platform. Proprietary just-in-time data integration connects to existing CRM, CDP, marketing-automation,
  and data-warehouse systems without disruptive infrastructure changes, keeping a human-in-the-loop review step. Kana ships
  no public developer portal, but its application host apps.kana.ai does expose a real callable surface: an OAuth 2.0 authorization
  server whose RFC 8414 metadata is served anonymously and declares MCP protocol 2025-03-26 with mcp:read / mcp:write / kana:read
  / kana:write scopes, plus a per-deployment MCP endpoint and an api-key-authenticated Skill API for running pipelines and
  retrieving their outputs. Everything but the OAuth metadata sits behind a 401, so this profile captures Kana''s public identity,
  legal/compliance posture, authentication and scope model, and the shape of the gated API surface.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kana/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- mayfield
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: false
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-08-13'
image: https://cdn.prod.website-files.com/6938c88532164b75764d7ec5/693c0c5cc53ad3db97596f39_929e4e790efd0fbe50a55bee450f14e8_Frame%202087327472.jpg
tags:
- Company
- Marketing
- Artificial Intelligence
- Agentic AI
- Marketing Technology
- Audience Intelligence
- Customer Data Platform
- AI Search Optimization
- Growth
apis:
- name: Kana Skill API
  description: The callable surface a deployed Kana pipeline ("skill") exposes on the Kana application host. POST /skill/{pipelineid}
    starts a run and returns a runid; GET /run/{runid}/status reports progress and queue depth; GET /run/{runid}/output returns
    the skill's outputs; PUT /file_ul stages an input file and returns a temporary file id; GET /file_dl/{runid}/{fid} retrieves
    an output file. Every operation is authenticated with an x-kana-apikey header. Kana's signed-in console generates an OpenAPI
    3.0.3 document per skill and renders it in an embedded Swagger UI; that document is not published at a public URL, so
    no spec is stored here.
  humanURL: https://apps.kana.ai/
  baseURL: https://apps.kana.ai
  tags:
  - Agentic AI
  - Marketing
  - Workflows
  tags_raw:
  - Agentic AI
  - Marketing
  - Workflow
  properties:
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kana-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/kana-scopes.yml
  - type: Conventions
    url: conventions/kana-conventions.yml
  - type: ErrorCatalog
    url: errors/kana-problem-types.yml
  - type: Lifecycle
    url: lifecycle/kana-lifecycle.yml
  - type: RateLimits
    url: rate-limits/kana-rate-limits.yml
- name: Kana MCP Server
  description: Kana exposes each deployed agent/orchestrator as a remote MCP server at https://apps.kana.ai/mcp/{public access
    key}, fronted by the platform's OAuth 2.0 authorization server (PKCE S256, RFC 7591 dynamic client registration, mcp:read
    and mcp:write scopes). The authorization-server metadata declares MCP protocol version 2025-03-26. Tool sets are per-deployment
    and require an authenticated introspection, so no vendor-wide tool catalog is published.
  humanURL: https://apps.kana.ai/
  baseURL: https://apps.kana.ai
  tags:
  - MCP
  - Agentic AI
  tags_raw:
  - Model Context Protocol
  - Agentic AI
  properties:
  - type: MCPServer
    url: mcp/kana-mcp.yml
  - type: Authentication
    url: authentication/kana-authentication.yml
  - type: OAuthScopes
    url: scopes/kana-scopes.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: ParentCompany
  url: https://apis.io/providers/salesforce/
  name: Salesforce
  x-relationship: acquired
  x-evidence: Founded by martech veterans Tom Chavez and Vivek Vaidya (previously Rapt, acquired by Microsoft, and Krux, acquired
    by Salesforce) and incubated in the super{set} startup studio, Kana raised a $15M seed round led by Mayfield in February
    202
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kana.ai
- type: Blog
  url: https://www.kana.ai/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://www.kana.ai/contact-us
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://www.kana.ai/privacy-policy
- type: Compliance
  url: https://www.kana.ai/legal
- type: Conformance
  url: conformance/kana-conformance.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kana-llms.txt
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kana-domain-security.yml
- type: GettingStarted
  url: https://www.kana.ai/get-started
- type: SignUp
  url: https://www.kana.ai/get-started
- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://www.kana.ai/faq
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kana-well-known.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/kana-authentication.yml
- type: OAuthScopes
  url: scopes/kana-scopes.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kana-mcp.yml
- type: Conventions
  url: conventions/kana-conventions.yml
- type: ErrorCatalog
  url: errors/kana-problem-types.yml
- type: Lifecycle
  url: lifecycle/kana-lifecycle.yml
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kana-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kana-rate-limits.yml
- type: Packages
  url: packages/kana-packages.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-13'
  status: enriched
  artifacts_added: 10
  pass: local-v1

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