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.

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13.2/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
0 APIs 1 MCP Servers
CompanyArtificial IntelligenceE-CommerceAgentic CommerceConversational CommerceBrand AgentsD2CShopifyLLMUniversal Commerce Protocol

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 13.2/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 4.3 / 20
Commercial Clarity 2.1 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
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 4 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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MCP Servers 1

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

kinect-mcp.yml

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
LLMsTxt
 WellKnown
WellKnown
 MCPServer
MCPServer
 AgentSkill
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)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
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).'
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