Kinect
YC Sp26Storefronts that sell to humans and AI agents
About
Kinect is the AI shopping assistant layer for e-commerce. We plug into ecommerce stores and give agents live access to your catalog, inventory, and policies. A brand’s online sales rep that can answer all a customer’s questions, help them find the right products, convince them. The website itself adapts to the shopper’s context: it considers the ads the user clicked on, their searches, filters, scrolling behavior, chat context to all show the shopper what they need to see. We're building for human shoppers today and the AI agents that will shop for them tomorrow. Either way, the product page needs to get a lot smarter. That's Kinect – the product page finally does what it was supposed to do all along. Kinect builds AI agents that know your brand, your catalog, and your customers' taste. On your site, they sell every visitor — running the conversation, adapting product pages in real time, 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. The storefront stops being a static grid and starts being a salesperson. Off your site, the same brand-owned data layer makes the brand legible to ChatGPT, Gemini, and Perplexity. Structured catalog, brand voice, fit notes, return reasons, segment-level nuance — all exposed in formats external agents can actually use. 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. Every interaction becomes signal the brand owns. The model gets sharper, the storefront gets better at selling, every session. Kinect continues to optimize on intent data, user journey data, agentic search data, and more. Over time gaps are filled and conversion for agentic commerce continues to improve. Two surfaces. One brand layer. Built for scaling DTC ecommerce brands.