Kuehnle AgroSystems

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.'
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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'