About Kinect
The way people shop is changing. Brands need to change with it.
Shopping is going conversational. Consumers are asking AI for recommendations instead of scrolling through search results. AI-assisted purchases are up 11x since 2025. OpenAI, Google, Amazon, and Shopify are all building the rails for this new era.
But brands have no strategy for it. Their storefronts still rely on keyword search bars and static filters. Meanwhile, customers are telling AI exactly what they want — in their own words, with full context — and brands can't hear any of it.
Kinect is the conversational commerce platform for brands. We replace static search with an AI shopping experience that actually understands what customers want — and captures that intent as structured data brands have never had before.
What We Believe
Principles that guide our work
Search should understand, not just match
When a customer says 'something for a winter work trip under $200,' they aren't typing keywords. They're expressing intent. Search should parse meaning the way a great salesperson would.
Explain, don't just recommend
Every recommendation should come with reasoning. Customers deserve to know why something was suggested and what tradeoffs exist — not just a ranked list with no context.
Layer on, don't rebuild
Companies have spent years building their product catalogs, APIs, and infrastructure. The right approach adds intelligence on top of what already exists, not a rip-and-replace.
Measure everything
If you can't evaluate whether AI is helping, you're flying blind. Every decision Kinect makes is measurable, traceable, and improvable.
The Team
A lean team, built for this
We're a small, technical team in San Francisco. We work closely with our customers and move fast.
Our team brings experience from Google, MongoDB, Coinbase, and venture-backed AI startups. We've built intent-to-action commerce systems at scale, led conversational intelligence teams, hold patents in multi-agent AI orchestration, and have consulted for brands like Sephora, Ralph Lauren, and Ford.
We're hiring. If you want to build the future of conversational commerce, reach out at hello@trykinect.com
Interested in what we're building?
We'd love to show you what Kinect can do for your brand.
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