Kuehnle AgroSystems

Kuehnle AgroSystems, Inc. (KAS) is a Honolulu, Hawaii microalgae biotechnology company founded in 2007 by Dr. Adelheid "Heidi" Kuehnle, with a second site in Cork, Ireland. KAS produces high-value natural products from microalgae for the food, feed and health markets using a patented heterotrophic "dark fermentation" process and proprietary non-GMO Hawaiian algal strains that run in standard fermentation equipment rather than open ponds or photobioreactors, compressing production from weeks to days with substantially lower cost, land, water and energy use. Its lead products are natural astaxanthin and algal protein, sold into nutraceuticals, cosmetics and skincare, functional foods and beverages, and aquaculture and animal feed; in August 2025 KAS entered a development and commercialization partnership with Corbion for an esterified natural astaxanthin. KAS sells ingredients, strains and fermentation process technology rather than software: it publishes no API, developer program, SDK, or machine-readable contract, and kuehnleagro.com is a six-page Squarespace marketing site.

Kuehnle AgroSystems is profiled on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Company, Biotechnology, Microalgae, Fermentation, and Astaxanthin.

Kuehnle AgroSystems’ developer surface includes support and 10 more developer resources.

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4.4/100 minimal ▬ flat Agent 0/100 human only Front door AI 2/6 trace Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0 · Show this score on your site →

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Company Biotechnology Microalgae FermentationAstaxanthinIngredients Food and Beverage AquacultureNutraceuticalsAgTech Hawaii

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scored 2026-10-23 · rubric v0.25.0

Composite quality — 4.4/100 · minimal

Contract Quality 0.0 / 21

Developer Ergonomics 0.8 / 17

Access Clarity 0.0 / 17

Operational Transparency 0.0 / 11

Contract Governance 0.0 / 10

Discoverability 4.1 / 9

Regulatory Posture 0.9 / 15

Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only

Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18

Agentic Access Contract 0 / 10

Documented Reversibility 0 / 6

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

A2A Agent Card 0 / 8

Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4

Delegated User Identity 0 / 6

Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5

Registration Without a Human 0 / 6

Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5

Pagination 5 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

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Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Aquaculture and Seafood Certification (ASC, BAP, MSC, GSSI)	undeclared	-	-	-

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Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kuehnle Agrosystems Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS

SECURITY

Resources

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

Contact

Contact

Support

Support

Company 3

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Partners

Partners

Other 4

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

Technology

Product

Product

Process

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kuehnle-agrosystems
name: Kuehnle AgroSystems
description: 'Kuehnle AgroSystems, Inc. (KAS) is a Honolulu, Hawaii microalgae biotechnology company founded in 2007 by Dr.
  Adelheid "Heidi" Kuehnle, with a second site in Cork, Ireland. KAS produces high-value natural products from microalgae
  for the food, feed and health markets using a patented heterotrophic "dark fermentation" process and proprietary non-GMO
  Hawaiian algal strains that run in standard fermentation equipment rather than open ponds or photobioreactors, compressing
  production from weeks to days with substantially lower cost, land, water and energy use. Its lead products are natural astaxanthin
  and algal protein, sold into nutraceuticals, cosmetics and skincare, functional foods and beverages, and aquaculture and
  animal feed; in August 2025 KAS entered a development and commercialization partnership with Corbion for an esterified natural
  astaxanthin. KAS sells ingredients, strains and fermentation process technology rather than software: it publishes no API,
  developer program, SDK, or machine-readable contract, and kuehnleagro.com is a six-page Squarespace marketing site.'
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - none
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: unknown
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Unknown
  confidence: low
  source:
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-02'
  method: derived
image: https://static1.squarespace.com/static/641fd5cedcca7622021a7b58/t/6622e938ae3f8f1f752d2240/1713563960811/KAS%2Blogo_white_gray-3.png?format=1500w
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/kuehnle-agrosystems/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: profile
x-tier-reason: no-api-surface
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-23'
modified: '2026-08-23'
tags:
- Company
- Biotechnology
- Microalgae
- Fermentation
- Astaxanthin
- Ingredients
- Food and Beverage
- Aquaculture
- Nutraceuticals
- AgTech
- Hawaii
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
  email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kuehnle-agrosystems-domain-security.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/
- type: Technology
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/technology
- type: Product
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/astaxanthin
  description: Natural astaxanthin product page.
- type: Product
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/protein
  description: Algal protein product page.
- type: Process
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/dark-fermentation
  description: The patented heterotrophic dark-fermentation process.
- type: Contact
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/contact
- type: Support
  url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/contact
  description: The company's only published inbound channel is the contact form; there is no developer support surface.
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kuehnle-agrosystems-inc.
- type: Partners
  url: https://www.corbion.com/media/press-release/3135449?language=English
  description: Corbion / KAS partnership to develop and commercialize natural astaxanthin from algae fermentation, announced
    2025-08-19.
- type: LLMsTxt
  url: llms/kuehnle-agrosystems-llms.txt
x-enrichment:
  date: '2026-08-23'
  status: minimal
  artifacts_added: 3
  pass: local-v1
x-coverage:
  state: none
  reason: not-a-software-company
  detail: Kuehnle AgroSystems sells microalgae-derived ingredients — natural astaxanthin and algal protein produced by a patented
    dark-fermentation process — so software is not the product; kuehnleagro.com is a six-page Squarespace marketing site whose
    sitemap lists six URLs and no developer, docs or API page, there is no GitHub organization or npm/PyPI package under the
    company name, and api./docs./developer..kuehnleagro.com are wildcard DNS to a Squarespace address whose TLS certificate
    does not cover them, so no HTTPS connection to them is possible.
  evidence:
  - url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/openapi.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/api-docs
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/developers
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/llms.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
    status: 404
  - url: https://www.kuehnleagro.com/.well-known/security.txt
    status: 404
  - url: https://api.kuehnleagro.com/
    status: 0
  - url: https://api.github.com/orgs/kuehnleagro
    status: 404
  checked: '2026-08-23'

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