# Known

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

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.

## Kin Score — 13.5 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 13.5).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 57.4 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 4.8 |
| Commercial Clarity | 34.2 |
| Access Clarity | 34.2 |

## 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

Requires approval — onboarding: approval, pricing: unknown, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## Security (1)

- **Known Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

## Tags

Company, Consumer, Dating, Mobile, Voice AI, Artificial Intelligence, Social, iOS

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