About Kernl
Who builds Kernl, and why it does its work on your computer instead of somewhere else.
Why it runs on your machine
Kernl comes out of building systems that are not allowed to send their data anywhere. A clinical platform holds patient records. An insurance platform holds claims. A university system holds student data. In each case the interesting question was never whether a cloud service was better, it was whether the data could legally leave the building.
Kernl starts from that constraint instead of treating it as an enterprise upgrade. The model runs on your hardware by default. If you would rather use a cloud model, you connect it yourself, with your own key or the Claude or ChatGPT plan you already pay for, and Kernl calls it directly. There is no account on our side and no copy of your prompts on our servers.
What that means for you
- What Kernl may touch is decided by the software itself, not by a dialog it could talk its way past. If a limit cannot actually be enforced, Kernl does not offer you the setting. The security page shows how the asking works.
- Kernl writes down the work it does for you. Each entry in that record is sealed to the one before it, so a removed or reordered entry shows up when you check. You can read it in Settings and export the whole thing. It holds the last 30 days, and anything you did in an incognito session was never written down in the first place.
- Using Kernl does not mean signing in to anything of ours. The free version does not contact our licensing service. It does look for a newer release when it starts, which you can switch off in Settings. A paid license re-checks when it can reach the network and keeps working offline in between; if it lapses, the install drops to the free version rather than stopping. We cannot switch off a copy you have installed.
Contact
Questions, ideas, or anything else: hello@getkernl.ai. Buying for a company: sales@getkernl.ai. Or just download it and see for yourself.