# Kinect

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kinect/  
**Website:** https://www.trykinect.ai  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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).

## Kin Score — 10.7 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 10.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 14.3 |
| Commercial Clarity | 10.5 |
| Access Clarity | 10.5 |

## Agent readiness — 8.4 (agent-aware)

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

## Access

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

## MCP servers (1)

- **Kinect MCP Server**

## Security (1)

- **Kinect Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

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

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