Kinect
Kinect is a YC Spring 2026 (P26) company. Based in San Francisco, CA, USA. Team of 2.
About Kinect
Summary
Kinect builds AI agents for direct-to-consumer e-commerce brands that personalize the storefront for each shopper in real time. The agents adapt product pages, surface recommendations, and answer questions based on how a shopper browses, hesitates, and compares, replacing the static, one-size-fits-all product page. Kinect also structures a brand's catalog, voice, and customer data so its agents, and third-party AI shopping tools, describe the brand on the brand's own terms.
Business model
Fee charged to DTC brands to run AI agents across their storefront
Go-to-market
DTC e-commerce brands are the buyers; the product goes live on a brand's existing site within a day, signaling a self-serve or low-friction onboarding motion, with demos booked directly through the website.
From the Y Combinator listing
The AI revenue platform for D2C brands
Kinect builds AI agents that know your brand, your catalog, and your customers. On your site, they sell every visitor — running the conversation, adapting product pages in real time to each customer segment, picking the right recommendation for the question being asked. The agent picks up on what each shopper actually wants from how they ask, what they hesitate on, what they compare, and what objection makes them bounce. We take all of a brand's data and make a structured catalog, brand voice, fit notes, return reasons, segment-level nuance — all so the Kinect agents truly can speak about a brand. When an agent describes the brand, the version it describes is the one you'd want them to, not whatever it guessed from a public catalog scrape. We expose this data as well in the form of agent storefronts, letting every other AI talk about your brand in the way you would want too. We're building for human shoppers today and the AI agents that shop and discover for them. Either way, the entire website needs to get a lot smarter and personalized. Two surfaces. One layer. Built for scaling DTC ecommerce brands.
Facts
- B2B / B2B
- San Francisco, CA, USA
- 2
- Active
- Early
Founders (2)
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