Kitchit

Kitchit was a San Francisco on-demand private-chef marketplace founded in 2011 by Brendan Marshall and Ian Ferguson. The service matched consumers with vetted professional chefs who shopped, cooked, served, and cleaned up a multi-course meal in the customer's own home, booked through the kitchit.com web and mobile storefront. In 2015 the company pivoted from fully customized menus to a lower-priced standardized product marketed as "Kitchit Tonight," priced around $39 per person with a two-person minimum. Kitchit served more than 100,000 meals across roughly five years of operation and reported a net promoter score of 87. It raised approximately $8.1M, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Crosslink Capital, Javelin Venture Partners, and Otter Rock Capital. The company announced its shutdown in April 2016, with the founders citing a finite investment runway that ended amid broad upheaval in food-tech, alongside contemporaneous failures at SpoonRocket, Dinner Lab, and Kitchensurfing. Kitchit is defunct: it operates no website, developer portal, or public API today, and no public API surface was ever published. This profile is retained as a historical/defunct provider record for network completeness.

Kitchit is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Food and Beverage, Marketplace, On-Demand, and Private Chef.

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7.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
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CompanyFood and BeverageMarketplaceOn-DemandPrivate ChefCateringConsumerHospitalityDefunct

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scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 7.4/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.7 / 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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Security Posture 1

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

Kitchit Domain Security

no transport/DNS hardening detected

SECURITY

Resources

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

Website
Website

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kitchit
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/kitchit.png
name: Kitchit
description: 'Kitchit was a San Francisco on-demand private-chef marketplace founded in 2011 by Brendan Marshall and Ian Ferguson.
  The service matched consumers with vetted professional chefs who shopped, cooked, served, and cleaned up a multi-course
  meal in the customer''s own home, booked through the kitchit.com web and mobile storefront. In 2015 the company pivoted
  from fully customized menus to a lower-priced standardized product marketed as "Kitchit Tonight," priced around $39 per
  person with a two-person minimum. Kitchit served more than 100,000 meals across roughly five years of operation and reported
  a net promoter score of 87. It raised approximately $8.1M, with investors including Andreessen Horowitz, Crosslink Capital,
  Javelin Venture Partners, and Otter Rock Capital. The company announced its shutdown in April 2016, with the founders citing
  a finite investment runway that ended amid broad upheaval in food-tech, alongside contemporaneous failures at SpoonRocket,
  Dinner Lab, and Kitchensurfing. Kitchit is defunct: it operates no website, developer portal, or public API today, and no
  public API surface was ever published. This profile is retained as a historical/defunct provider record for network completeness.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kitchit/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: portfolio-lead
x-status: defunct
x-defunct-date: 2016-04
x-status-reason: 'Shutdown announced April 2016. Verified 2026-07-19: kitchit.com resolves to a parked GoDaddy address (50.63.202.43)
  but refuses connections on ports 80 and 443; www, api, developer, and docs subdomains are all unreachable. The github.com/Kitchit
  organization still exists but has zero public repositories and has been dormant since 2016-10-31. No packages are published
  under this name on npm, PyPI, or RubyGems. No API, documentation, or developer surface exists to enrich.'
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Food and Beverage
- Marketplace
- On-Demand
- Private Chef
- Catering
- Consumer
- Hospitality
- Defunct
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kitchit.com
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/Kitchit
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kitchit-domain-security.yml
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence