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Kinect goes live the same day the kickoff happens
By Kratik Agrawal
Published Aug 21, 2026 Updated Aug 21, 2026
Most platforms measure onboarding in weeks. Kinect measures it in hours, because the Kinect team does the work rather than handing you a setup wizard. This page walks through what actually happens between kickoff and go-live, and what changes on your store, which is deliberately nothing visible.
Quick answer
Kinect goes live the same day as kickoff. The Kinect team sets up the integration, ingests your catalog and policies, tunes the rep's voice with your team, and reviews everything with you before going live. You do not touch code, and your theme stays exactly as it was.
What happens on day one
Onboarding is white-glove and runs in one day. The team ingests the full catalog, every product, variant, and policy, and combines it with your knowledge base into one intelligence layer. Voice comes next. Tone, terminology, and recommendation behavior get tuned with your team, so the rep sells the way you would. Everything is reviewed with you before the switch flips.
- Integration. On Shopify, Kinect installs natively as a theme extension. Nothing in your theme is rebuilt, and turned off, the store is exactly as it was.
- Ingestion. Catalog, policies, and knowledge, synced continuously from then on. Change a product or a price and the rep updates with it.
- Voice tuning. The rep learns your tone and terminology during onboarding and keeps getting refined in weekly review sessions against real conversations.
- Review and go-live. You see it working before shoppers do, the same day.
What happens after go-live
The work does not stop at launch. The team reviews real conversations with you weekly and tunes against them, and the system itself is self-learning. As it watches real visitor journeys, it finds gaps in your data and proposes fixes. Measurement starts on day one too. Every store launches behind an A/B split against its own baseline, covered in how to read your Kinect numbers.
What Kinect needs from you
A kickoff conversation and access to the store. The team does the rest, and brands work directly with the team, founders included. For platforms beyond Shopify, supported builds are scoped at kickoff, detailed in what Kinect works with.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need a developer to install Kinect?
No. The Kinect team handles the integration end to end. On Shopify it installs as a native theme extension, and brands do not touch code.
Will Kinect change how my store looks?
No. The rep and the product-page layer render as a light layer on your existing design, and the store's design stays its own. There is no theme rebuild.
How current does the rep stay after launch?
The catalog syncs continuously. When you change products, pricing, or policies, the rep updates with them, and weekly tuning reviews keep the voice and answers sharp.
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