Kana

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: paid
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Paid
  confidence: high
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - scopes
  - rate-limits
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  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
- AI Agents
- Marketing Technology
- Audience Intelligence
- Customer Data Platform
- AI Search Optimization
- Growth
tags_raw:
- 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:
  - AI Agents
  - 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
  - AI Agents
  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: Pricing
  url: https://www.kana.ai/get-started
- 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
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