Knowable

Knowable was a mobile audio-learning company that united world-class experts, thinkers, and storytellers to produce structured audio courses for curious minds — an "audio courses" take on online learning delivered as serialized lessons rather than one-off podcasts. Founded by the Bit Kitchen team and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z led its round in May 2019), Knowable published expert-led course series across business, creativity, and personal development. The company is no longer operational: knowable.fyi now serves a tombstone notice stating that Knowable has been acquired by Medium and directing former listeners to Medium.com. Knowable never published a public developer program, API, SDKs, or developer documentation, and its GitHub organization (bitkitchen) exposes no public repositories. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist network as a historical company record from the a16z portfolio; there is no live API surface to catalog.

Knowable is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Audio, Learning, Education, and Media.

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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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CompanyAudioLearningEducationMediaPodcastingOnline CoursesConsumerDefuncta16z Portfolio

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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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Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Design & Contract 1

Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events

Lifecycle

Lifecycle

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization

GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Company 5

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Twitter

Twitter

Facebook

Facebook

Investor

Investor

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Announcement

Announcement

Source (apis.yml)

aid: knowable
name: Knowable
description: 'Knowable was a mobile audio-learning company that united world-class experts, thinkers, and storytellers to
  produce structured audio courses for curious minds — an "audio courses" take on online learning delivered as serialized
  lessons rather than one-off podcasts. Founded by the Bit Kitchen team and backed by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z led its round
  in May 2019), Knowable published expert-led course series across business, creativity, and personal development. The company
  is no longer operational: knowable.fyi now serves a tombstone notice stating that Knowable has been acquired by Medium and
  directing former listeners to Medium.com. Knowable never published a public developer program, API, SDKs, or developer documentation,
  and its GitHub organization (bitkitchen) exposes no public repositories. This profile is retained in the API Evangelist
  network as a historical company record from the a16z portfolio; there is no live API surface to catalog.'
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/knowable/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
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  confidence: low
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  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://d1lamhf6l6yk6d.cloudfront.net/uploads/2024/10/logo_0011E00001ialOJ-20230418003432.svg
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
- a16z
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-acquired-by: Medium
specificationVersion: '0.20'
created: '2026-07-17'
modified: '2026-07-19'
tags:
- Company
- Audio
- Learning
- Education
- Media
- Podcasting
- Online Courses
- Consumer
- Defunct
- a16z Portfolio
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/knowable-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://knowable.fyi/
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/bitkitchen
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/19118465
- type: Twitter
  url: https://twitter.com/knowablefyi
- type: Facebook
  url: https://facebook.com/knowablefyi
- type: Investor
  url: https://a16z.com/companies/knowable/
- type: Announcement
  name: a16z — Knowable and audio startups
  url: https://a16z.com/announcement/knowable-and-audio-startups/
- type: Lifecycle
  name: Knowable service lifecycle (defunct, acquired by Medium)
  url: lifecycle/knowable-lifecycle.yml
- type: LLMsTxt
  name: Knowable llms.txt
  url: llms/knowable-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence