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Kinect

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Agentic Storefronts for E-Commerce Brands

P26·Spring 2026·B2B·Team of 2·Founded 2026

About

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 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. The storefront stops being a static grid and starts being a salesperson. 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. 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. We're building for human shoppers today and the AI agents that shop and discovery for them. Either way, the entire website needs to get a lot smarter and personalized. Two surfaces. One brand layer. Built for scaling DTC ecommerce brands.

Founders

  • Kratik Agrawal· Founder

    CEO & Co-Founder of Kinect. Previously at Google Commerce, Anduril, and Verkada. Led Conversational Intelligence at Reevo. CS @ UCLA

  • Varun Kandula· Founder

    Co-Founder at Kinect. Previously co-led conversational intelligence at Reevo. SWE at MongoDB and Capital One. President of NextGen Consulting, where he led projects with Sephora and Ralph Lauren and sourced $200k+ in contracted ARR across 10+ brands. Former D1 squash player, HWR #23

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