# Kitchit

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kitchit/  
**Website:** https://www.kitchit.com  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 5.3 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 5.3).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 50.0 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 2.6 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |
| Access Clarity | 0.0 |

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

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

## Access

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

## Security (1)

- **Kitchit Domain Security** — no transport/DNS hardening detected

## Tags

Company, Food and Beverage, Marketplace, On-Demand, Private Chef, Catering, Consumer, Hospitality, Defunct

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