Kinnek

Kinnek was a B2B purchasing marketplace that helped small and mid-sized businesses buy from suppliers. Buyers could describe what they needed, collect competitive quotes from vetted suppliers, read unbiased reviews, and get expert purchasing advice in one place, under the tagline "Purchasing Made Painless." The company operated at kinnek.com but is no longer active: the domain no longer resolves (no DNS A, MX, NS, or SOA records) and the site survives only via the Internet Archive (strongest snapshot circa 2017). It was added to the API Evangelist network as a venture-portfolio lead (backed by 500 Global and Version One Ventures); the enrichment pass found no public API, developer portal, documentation, or machine-readable specifications for this provider.

Kinnek is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, B2B, Marketplace, Procurement, and Purchasing.

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6.8/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyB2BMarketplaceProcurementPurchasingSupplierse-CommerceSmall BusinessDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 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 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
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Resources

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Archive
Archive

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kinnek
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://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kinnek.png
name: Kinnek
description: 'Kinnek was a B2B purchasing marketplace that helped small and mid-sized businesses buy from suppliers. Buyers
  could describe what they needed, collect competitive quotes from vetted suppliers, read unbiased reviews, and get expert
  purchasing advice in one place, under the tagline "Purchasing Made Painless." The company operated at kinnek.com but is
  no longer active: the domain no longer resolves (no DNS A, MX, NS, or SOA records) and the site survives only via the Internet
  Archive (strongest snapshot circa 2017). It was added to the API Evangelist network as a venture-portfolio lead (backed
  by 500 Global and Version One Ventures); the enrichment pass found no public API, developer portal, documentation, or machine-readable
  specifications for this provider.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kinnek/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- 500-global
- version-one-ventures
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-status-evidence: kinnek.com has no DNS A/MX/NS/SOA records (probed 2026-07-19); last live archive snapshot http://web.archive.org/web/20171230082105/https://www.kinnek.com/
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Procurement
- Purchasing
- Suppliers
- e-Commerce
- Small Business
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://kinnek.com
- type: Archive
  url: http://web.archive.org/web/20171230082105/https://www.kinnek.com/
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence