# KNO

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/kno/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

Kno, Inc. was a digital textbook and student learning platform founded in May 2009 in Santa Clara, California by CEO Osman Rashid (co-founder of Chegg) and CTO Babur Habib. Kno began as a dual-screen tablet built for students, abandoned hardware in 2011, and pivoted to eTextbook software delivered across iPad, Android, Windows and the web in partnership with textbook publishers. The company raised roughly $93 million from Andreessen Horowitz, Intel Capital, Goldman Sachs, FLOODGATE, First Round Capital, SV Angel, Advance Publications and GSV Capital before being acquired by Intel in November 2013 for approximately $15 million and rebranded as Intel Education Study, which has itself since been discontinued. As of enrichment the kno.com domain is parked and redirects to a third-party domain brokerage, and the provider exposes no public API, developer portal, documentation, SDK, or other artifact surface to enrich.

## Kin Score — 0.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 0.9).

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

Regulatory layer — **Education & Research**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## 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).

## Tags

Company, Education, EdTech, Digital Textbooks, Ebooks, Learning Platform, Publishing, Consumer, Defunct

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