Known

Known is a voice-first, swipeless dating application founded in 2025 by Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen and headquartered in San Francisco, California. Instead of profiles, feeds, queues, and swiping, Known onboards users through a voice-AI interview and then sends one curated introduction at a time, with a 24-hour acceptance window on both sides. When both people accept, Known helps pick a restaurant that fits both sets of preferences and checks calendar availability, then collects a short post-date check-in to refine future matches. The company optimizes for in-person dates rather than engagement, and has raised $9.7M from Forerunner Ventures, NFX, and other investors. The product is iOS-only in the United States today, with waitlists for Android and for Apple users outside the US. Known publishes no public developer program, API, or SDKs; it does publish a first-party llms.txt describing the product for AI agents.

Known is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Consumer, Dating, Mobile, and Voice AI.

Known’s developer surface includes support, signup flow, legal docs, and 13 more developer resources.

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14.5/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5

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Composite quality — 14.5/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 25

Developer Ergonomics 0.9 / 20

Commercial Clarity 6.8 / 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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Get Started 1

Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call

SignUp

SignUp

Documentation 1

Reference material describing how the API behaves

Guidelines

Guidelines

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

LLMsTxt

LLMsTxt

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity

DomainSecurity

Operate 2

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

Support

Support

HelpCenter

HelpCenter

Commercial 3

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

TermsOfService

TermsOfService

PrivacyPolicy

PrivacyPolicy

Legal

Legal

Company 4

The organization behind the API

Website

Careers

Instagram

Twitter

Other 3

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Branding

Branding

Overview

Overview

TikTok

TikTok

Source (apis.yml)

aid: known
name: Known
description: Known is a voice-first, swipeless dating application founded in 2025 by Celeste Amadon and Asher Allen and headquartered
  in San Francisco, California. Instead of profiles, feeds, queues, and swiping, Known onboards users through a voice-AI interview
  and then sends one curated introduction at a time, with a 24-hour acceptance window on both sides. When both people accept,
  Known helps pick a restaurant that fits both sets of preferences and checks calendar availability, then collects a short
  post-date check-in to refine future matches. The company optimizes for in-person dates rather than engagement, and has raised
  $9.7M from Forerunner Ventures, NFX, and other investors. The product is iOS-only in the United States today, with waitlists
  for Android and for Apple users outside the US. Known publishes no public developer program, API, or SDKs; it does publish
  a first-party llms.txt describing the product for AI agents.
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  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Requires approval
  confidence: medium
  source: []
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://mstspgqzsxe5kj3q.public.blob.vercel-storage.com/images/og.jpg
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/known/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: vc-portfolio
x-backed-by:
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x-tier: profiled
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tags:
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- Consumer
- Dating
- Mobile
- Voice AI
- Artificial Intelligence
- Social
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apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
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- type: LLMsTxt
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- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/known-domain-security.yml
- type: Support
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- type: HelpCenter
  url: https://known.com/faq
- type: SignUp
  url: https://known.com/join
- type: TermsOfService
  url: https://known.com/terms
- type: PrivacyPolicy
  url: https://known.com/privacy
- type: Guidelines
  url: https://known.com/guidelines
- type: Legal
  url: https://known.com/legal
- type: Careers
  url: https://known.com/careers
- type: Branding
  url: https://known.com/brand
- type: Overview
  url: https://known.com/readme
- type: Instagram
  url: https://instagram.com/known
- type: Twitter
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- type: TikTok
  url: https://tiktok.com/@known
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-07-19'
  status: backfilled
  pass: local-v1
  note: backfilled from .gitignore signal + verified work evidence