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AdKnowledge

Adknowledge, Inc. was a performance-based digital advertising and marketing technology holding company founded in 2004 by Scott Lynn and headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri. It ran a response-based targeting marketplace that connected advertisers to consumers across email, search, domains, social and app inventory, and it exposed a publisher-facing AdStation platform with an automated offer engine and creative library. Ben Legg served as Group CEO from 2011 to 2016, during which the company consolidated a long acquisition run (Super Rewards, Miva, Cubics, Lookery, Hydra Group, AdParlor, Giant Media, TriVu Media and others) into video and social units that were then sold off; AdParlor was subsequently acquired by Fluent in 2019. Third-party company registries now list Adknowledge as out of business. It entered the API Evangelist network as a portfolio-lead stub via kleiner-perkins. Contemporary integration write-ups confirm a historical RESTful AdStation / Publisher Platform API, but as of this enrichment pass no live surface survives: the adknowledge.com zone is still registered (AWS Route 53 nameservers, Microsoft 365 mail with an SPF record) yet publishes no A record for the apex or for www, api, developer, developers, docs or publisher, so there is no reachable website, developer portal, API documentation or machine-readable specification from which to harvest provider artifacts.

human only

Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.

Kin Score

AdKnowledge is tracked in the API Evangelist network. This page is the human-readable profile that sits on top of the machine-readable index we maintain at apis.io.

Every provider in the network is reduced to the same set of machine-readable artifacts — OpenAPI contracts, event specifications, GraphQL schemas, runnable collections, pricing and rate-limit signals, security posture, OAuth scopes, and the agent surfaces (MCP servers and skills) that let software drive the API on its own. We profile them because the interface is the part of a company you can actually inspect: it is a truer signal of what a provider does than any marketing page. From those artifacts we compute the Kin Score — AdKnowledge scores 6.8/100 (minimal), with a separate agent-readiness read of 0/100 (human only). The full breakdown is below, followed by every artifact we hold — each card links through to its machine-readable definition on apis.io.

Kin Score

This is the API Evangelist rating — a single, repeatable read computed from the artifacts on this page. Green fill is points earned; the red track is points possible, so every bar shows earned-versus-possible at a glance.

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-07-27 · rubric v0.5
Composite quality — 6.8/100 · minimal
Contract Quality 0.0 / 25
Developer Ergonomics 0.0 / 20
Commercial Clarity 0.0 / 20
Operational Transparency 0.0 / 13
Governance 0.0 / 12
Discoverability 6.8 / 10
Agent readiness — 0/100 · human only
Machine-Readable Contract 0 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 0 / 15
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 0 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 0 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3

AdKnowledge is in the network as a tracked entity. We haven't yet indexed a public API surface for it — when one is published, the artifacts, score, and agent-readiness read will appear here automatically. The source repository is where that profile is built.

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