What Kimono Inc does

Kimono Inc, headquartered in West Hollywood, California and incorporated in 2024, operates a relationship intelligence platform built on a living graph that merges public identity data (LinkedIn, Substack, X, GitHub, news, web) with private communications data (email, calendar, messaging, files, contacts) into unified, self-sovereign profiles owned by each user. Its portfolio is split between a consumer/team suite (Ask Kimono, Kimono ID, Kimono MCP) delivered through web, iOS, and Android, and an enterprise platform (API, SDK, CLI, dedicated instances with audit-grade attestation) for companies embedding relationship context into their own products. The system relies on AI-generated summaries, signal detection on contact updates, and a Model Context Protocol layer that enables AI assistants such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor to query the graph under privacy-enforcing constraints, with the company explicitly citing the 86% AI connector prompt-injection failure rate and EU AI Act timing (August 2, 2026) as positioning tailwinds.

The company monetizes via subscription-based access for both individual/team and enterprise tiers, though pricing is not publicly disclosed and access is gated through a waitlist and contact-based sales for enterprise deals. Early users include founders and operators (e.g., CEOs of Private AI, Multiplayer, PressContact; a podcaster/advisor) reporting use cases spanning meeting preparation, network follow-up prioritization, and client-report summarization. Distribution combines product-led growth (self-serve web/mobile + waitlist) with API-first enterprise distribution and MCP-based embedding into AI assistants. The team is small (1–10 employees), no funding rounds are disclosed, and the company presents itself as a privately held, founder-led operation without a disclosed parent, public listing, or institutional ownership.

Name

Kimono Inc

Legal name

Kimono, Inc.

Website

https://getkimono.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2024

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Kimono Inc builds an AI-native relationship intelligence platform that merges public identity data with private communications into a self-sovereign graph, serving individual professionals via Ask Kimono, Kimono ID, and Kimono MCP, and serving companies via API/SDK access.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Relationship Intelligence Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computing Infrastructure Providers, Data Processing, Web Hosting, and Related Services (518)

SIC

Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Directory Services & Identity Data Platforms (BPAMAEAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Consent, Privacy & Preference Management (BPAMAEAK)

Keywords

• Relationship intelligence software
• Contact data unification
• AI network assistant
• Identity resolution platform
• Model Context Protocol

Headquarters

HQ city

West Hollywood

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B and B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales, Operations

Revenue model

1. Kimono Products (Individual/Team): Subscription-based access for individuals and teams using Kimono for personal network intelligence. Pricing not publicly disclosed, available via waitlist and contact.
2. Kimono Platform (API/SDK): Enterprise API and SDK access for companies building relationship intelligence into their products. Includes CLI tools and dedicated instance options.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Kimono builds and sells a "living relationship graph" software platform that unifies public identity data (LinkedIn, X, GitHub, news) with private user data (email, calendar, messages, files, contacts) into continuously updated profiles. It ships this to consumers through Ask Kimono, Kimono ID, and Kimono MCP, and exposes it to enterprises through an API, SDK, CLI, and dedicated instances. The core value is letting both people and AI agents reason over a single, privacy-preserving source of relationship context.

Product overview

Kimono Inc offers a dual-track product portfolio: consumer/team products and an enterprise platform. The consumer tier includes Ask Kimono (a private AI network assistant), Kimono ID (living contact cards combining public and private data), and Kimono MCP (Model Context Protocol integration for AI tools). The enterprise tier provides the Kimono Platform with API/SDK access, CLI tools, and dedicated instances. All products share a unified living relationship graph that combines public professional data with private user communications.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Kimono Products: Products for individuals and teams - includes Ask Kimono (private AI), Kimono ID (living contact card), and Kimono MCP (bring network into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor)
• Kimono Platform

Products and services

• Ask Kimono A private AI assistant that remembers and reasons over the user's professional network. Users ask plain-language questions such as 'Connect me with seed-stage founders' and receive ranked, sourced answers drawn from their relationship graph, including hot sectors, last touch, and contextual insights. Intended for individuals and teams who need to surface and prioritize network connections on demand.
• Kimono ID A living contact card that maintains a continuously updated profile for each contact, combining public identity data (LinkedIn, Substack, X, GitHub, news) with private relationship context (emails, calendar, messages, files, contacts). Includes AI-generated summaries with source attribution and signal detection for moments worth paying attention to. Intended for individuals and teams managing professional relationships.
• Kimono MCP Model Context Protocol integration that brings the user's relationship network into AI coding assistants and chatbots such as Claude, ChatGPT, and Cursor. Acts as a privacy-enforcing layer that prevents user data from leaking into external systems while letting AI tools reason over network context. Intended for individual and team users of AI assistants who want secure, consent-based access to their relationship data inside those tools.
• Kimono Platform An enterprise-grade relationship intelligence API, SDK, and CLI that lets companies enrich, resolve, and query Kimono's relationship graph from their own products. The Enterprise tier offers a dedicated instance and audit-grade attestation, with customer data kept private and never resold or used for training. Intended for companies building AI-powered products that need privacy-compliant relationship context and identity resolution.

Quantifiable outcome

• MCP reached 97M monthly downloads, indicating rapid protocol adoption

Named customers4 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration18 records

AI capability6 records

Feature5 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Apollo.io: Apollo.io is a sales intelligence and engagement platform that combines a large B2B contact database with outreach tooling. It is comparable as a broader incumbent that also aggregates public and private contact data for relationship-driven workflows, though its primary wedge is outbound sales rather than personal network intelligence.
• Notion: Notion is a productivity and workspace platform that increasingly embeds AI and structured data, including contacts, notes, and lightweight CRM use cases. It is comparable as a broader incumbent that owns the surface where personal relationship data already lives.
• HubSpot: HubSpot is the dominant SMB CRM and has been rapidly adding AI features and a Breeze assistant to consolidate contacts, emails, and engagement. It is comparable as a broad incumbent that aggregates the same email/calendar/contact data Kimono ingests, but at very different scale.
• Auth0 (Okta): Auth0/Okta provides identity infrastructure, authentication, and consent management for developers and enterprises. It is comparable as a broad incumbent in identity and privacy-enforcing access that Kimono's MCP layer could eventually compete with for AI agent authorization.

Direct peers

• Folk: Folk is a lightweight, modern CRM focused on relationship management for small teams and individuals, with strong integrations into email and messaging. It competes in the same 'relationship-first CRM' wedge as Kimono Products, especially for founders and operators.
• Clay: Clay is a relationship intelligence and outbound platform that enriches contacts with public and private data and lets users query their network in natural language. It is the most directly comparable product to Ask Kimono, with overlapping personas (founders, sales, investors) and a similar graph-based data model.
• Dex: Dex is a personal CRM and relationship management tool that consolidates contacts, calendars, and interactions into a living relationship graph with AI-powered reminders and outreach suggestions. It targets the same individual-professional-with-a-network persona as Kimono Products.
• People.ai: People.ai builds a relationship graph from email, calendar, and CRM activity to surface contacts, accounts, and deal intelligence for revenue teams. It overlaps directly with Kimono's relationship-graph approach, though it is sales-led and enterprise-focused rather than consumer/PLG.

Emerging players

• Replit: Replit has integrated MCP and AI agents deeply into its coding platform and is a reference customer ecosystem for Model Context Protocol adoption. It is comparable as an emerging player showcasing how AI products embed MCP, the same protocol surface Kimono is targeting with its privacy layer.
• Granola: Granola is an AI meeting notes tool that turns conversations into structured, shareable summaries and is explicitly on Kimono's integration roadmap. It is comparable as an emerging player in the agentic productivity layer that Kimono is also building toward via meetings, events, and transcripts.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Kimonoinc
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@kimonoinc
• Facebookfacebook.com/kimonoinc
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/Kimonoinc
• Instagraminstagram.com/kimonoinc

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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