Kinect

Kinect (Kinect AI, Inc.) is an AI revenue platform for direct-to-consumer brands, built around two products that share one brand intelligence: an AI sales rep that converses with shoppers on a brand's own site — grounded in the full catalog, policies, and reviews, selling in the brand's voice and guiding each visitor to the right product — and an agent-ready storefront that makes the brand legible and buyable to external AI (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and emerging buyer agents). Kinect exposes its brand-agent surface through the open Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) at /.well-known/ucp, advertising an MCP shopping service with catalog search and lookup capabilities, and maintains agent-native discovery documents (llms.txt, agents.md, ai-instructions). The company is white-glove and same-day to onboard, measures every deployment behind an A/B split, and is a Y Combinator company (P26) headquartered in San Francisco. Founded by Kratik Agrawal (CEO) and Varun Kandula (CTO).

Kinect is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Artificial Intelligence, E-Commerce, Agentic Commerce, and Conversational Commerce.

Kinect’s developer surface includes engineering blog, support, and 8 more developer resources.

🌐 Visit website 📡 Source on GitHub

10.7/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 8/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

0 APIs 1 MCP Servers

Company Artificial Intelligence E-Commerce Agentic Commerce Conversational Commerce Brand Agents D2C Shopify LLM Universal Commerce Protocol

Kin Score

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scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0

Composite quality — 10.7/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 2.9 / 20

Access Clarity 2.1 / 20

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13

Contract Governance 0.0 / 12

Discoverability 5.7 / 10

Agent readiness — 8/100 · agent aware

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

MCP Server 12 / 12

Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10

Idempotency 0 / 9

Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8

Request/Response Examples 0 / 7

Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7

Typed Event Surface 0 / 6

Agent Skills 5 / 5

Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4

Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 5 / 5

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MCP Servers 1

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

Kinect MCP Server

MCP SERVER

Security Posture 1

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

Kinect Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Resources

Agent Surfaces 4

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

WellKnown

MCPServer

AgentSkill

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

Commercial 1

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

About

About

Blog

Blog

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kinect
name: Kinect
description: 'Kinect (Kinect AI, Inc.) is an AI revenue platform for direct-to-consumer brands, built around two products
  that share one brand intelligence: an AI sales rep that converses with shoppers on a brand''s own site — grounded in the
  full catalog, policies, and reviews, selling in the brand''s voice and guiding each visitor to the right product — and an
  agent-ready storefront that makes the brand legible and buyable to external AI (ChatGPT, Perplexity, Gemini, and emerging
  buyer agents). Kinect exposes its brand-agent surface through the open Universal Commerce Protocol (UCP) at /.well-known/ucp,
  advertising an MCP shopping service with catalog search and lookup capabilities, and maintains agent-native discovery documents
  (llms.txt, agents.md, ai-instructions). The company is white-glove and same-day to onboard, measures every deployment behind
  an A/B split, and is a Y Combinator company (P26) headquartered in San Francisco. Founded by Kratik Agrawal (CEO) and Varun
  Kandula (CTO).'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kinect/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  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
image: https://trykinect.ai/opengraph-image
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- y-combinator
x-yc-batch: P26
x-founded: '2025'
x-headquarters: San Francisco, CA
x-founders:
- Kratik Agrawal (CEO)
- Varun Kandula (CTO)
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Artificial Intelligence
- E-Commerce
- Agentic Commerce
- Conversational Commerce
- Brand Agents
- D2C
- Shopify
- LLM
- Universal Commerce Protocol
apis: []
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kinect-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.trykinect.ai
- type: About
  url: https://trykinect.ai/about
- type: Blog
  url: https://trykinect.ai/blog
- type: Support
  url: https://trykinect.ai/contact
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://trykinect.ai/legal/privacy
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kinect-llms.txt
- type: WellKnown
  url: well-known/kinect-well-known.yml
- type: MCPServer
  url: mcp/kinect-mcp.yml
- type: AgentSkill
  url: skills/_index.yml
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence

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