About Kinect
The static storefront is over.
40% of shoppers now arrive from outside your site — a TikTok, an AI assistant, an agent recommendation — carrying intent your product page silently throws away. We started Kinect to be the merchant-side layer for that world: one that reads who’s looking, responds in your voice, and sells before someone else does it for you.
Y Combinator
9
D2C brands live
20%
Avg conversion lift
Our Story
Founded on a gap nobody was fixing
Kratik and Varun led the conversational intelligence team at a venture-backed CRM company, building AI that understood sales conversations — why deals closed, what objections mattered, what signals predicted intent.
The same pattern kept showing up in ecommerce, but nobody was working on it. Brands had every dashboard imaginable for clicks and conversions. They had almost nothing on what shoppers actually wanted. The search bar captures keywords. It doesn't capture intent.
Kinect exists to close that gap. Every shopper interaction becomes structured data the brand has never had. Every question asked on the site makes the next answer better. The product page finally does what it was supposed to do all along.
Leadership
The team behind Kinect
Our team brings experience from Google, MongoDB, and some of the biggest names in commerce. We're based in San Francisco and backed by Y Combinator.
How We Work
Small team, high bar
Ownership over territory
Everyone touches the full stack. If something’s broken, you fix it.
Velocity with taste
We ship fast. We don’t ship sloppy.
Partners, not users
Our brands aren’t tickets in a queue. We learn their business.
Substance over performance
Real metrics, real impact. Not pitch-deck theater.
Join us
We're looking for people who care about craft, move fast, and want to build the intelligence layer for commerce.
hello@trykinect.ai
