More Complex Needs.
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For organizations where fragmented knowledge, disconnected systems, and repeated work create larger operational costs, Kernel provides specialized architecture, implementation, and technical development. Each engagement addresses a defined business challenge and builds on an operational knowledge foundation your organization owns.
Explore SolutionsSpecialized Engagements
Start With What Your Business Needs.
Each engagement addresses a distinct need. You can begin with any offering based on your organization’s priorities.
5-Day Blueprint™
Measure the cost of fragmented knowledge and identify where to intervene first.
Architecture Design
Design the architecture for capturing, organizing, and sharing your organization’s operational knowledge.
Business Line Build
Put the foundation to work in a business function, solving a specific operational problem.
Ongoing Architecture Partnership
Continue developing the foundation as your organization, knowledge, and technical requirements evolve.
One Method. Client-Owned Outcomes.
COA is Kernel’s methodology for making an organization’s existing operational architecture explicit, structured, and reusable. It identifies where knowledge breaks down and establishes the foundation for capturing how the business operates, connecting its people, processes, decisions, and compatible AI tools. Your organization defines the knowledge and retains ownership and control of the resulting foundation.
See How COA Works →Your business brain. Yours to own.
Your company’s knowledge is organized in an open, portable foundation that people and compatible AI tools can reference. You own the underlying assets and remain free to choose your models, agents, and platforms.
Kernel builds the foundation. Your business owns what it becomes.
Enterprise AI can connect to your business information and help teams work with it. Kernel establishes the independent operational record that organizes how your business actually works, preserving its authoritative processes, standards, decisions, and accumulated knowledge beyond any one AI provider.
Find the Right Custom Solution
| If you need to… | Start with… | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Measure the Context Tax and decide what to fix first | 5-Day Blueprint™ | $8,500 |
| Design the foundation your organization will own | Architecture Design | Custom quote |
| Put the foundation to work in one business line | Business Line Build | Custom quote |
| Extend and govern the foundation after launch | Ongoing Architecture Partnership | Custom quote |
| Implement or extend AI capabilities around your business knowledge | Implementation & Technical Support | Custom quote |
Measure the Context Tax and decide what to fix first
5-Day Blueprint™ · $8,500
Design the foundation your organization will own
Architecture Design · Custom quote
Put the foundation to work in one business line
Business Line Build · Custom quote
Extend and govern the foundation after launch
Ongoing Architecture Partnership · Custom quote
Implement or extend AI capabilities around your business knowledge
Implementation & Technical Support · Custom quote
Public prices are for standardized offers. Everything else is quoted individually.
Engagement Details
5-Day Blueprint™
$8,500· Delivered in 5 business days
When teams and AI repeatedly reconstruct context the organization already owns, costs rise and production stalls. In five days, the Blueprint measures that Context Tax, identifies its highest-cost causes, and gives leadership a prioritized plan to fix them.
- -Evidence-backed Context Tax score across five dimensions
- -Map of where operational context breaks down
- -Initial shared-foundation map
- -Prioritized action plan and rationale, presented in a 30-minute leadership walkthrough
Guaranteed: your scored Context Tax baseline and prioritized fix order in five business days, or you don’t pay. A foundation map and recommended roadmap are also included in the Blueprint.
Outcome: a decision-ready view of where the Context Tax is highest, what to fix first, and which investment should come next.
Explore the Blueprint →Architecture Design
2–3 weeks
Custom quote.
Design the foundation for capturing and reusing how your organization operates across teams and AI tools. Kernel works with your team to map existing knowledge, establish its structure and ownership, and define how processes, standards, and decisions are maintained. The result is a client-owned, implementation-ready architecture.
- -Operational knowledge architecture for people and AI
- -Org Spine and business-line architecture
- -Knowledge and operational asset architecture
- -Governance, ownership, and decision-record conventions
- -Sequenced, production-ready implementation roadmap
Outcome: an owned architecture ready to implement, so new teams, tools, and AI initiatives stop rebuilding the same context.
Explore Architecture Design →Business Line Build
3–7 weeks
Custom quote.
Put the architecture into practice where fragmented knowledge creates the greatest friction. Working with your subject-matter experts, Kernel helps structure existing business-line knowledge into reusable assets, establishes mechanisms for capturing decisions, and implements workflows that build on and contribute to the shared foundation.
What the build delivers
- -Domain lexicon and production-ready operational assets
- -Signal-intake and decision-recording protocols
- -One working operational loop
- -Implementation and maintenance handoff
Outcome: one production-ready business line that solves an immediate operational problem, strengthens the shared foundation, and can be run independently by your team.
Explore Business Line Build →Ongoing Architecture Partnership
Optional ongoing support · 2-month minimum
Custom quote.
For organizations that need continued support developing their operational knowledge architecture, Kernel provides ongoing implementation and advisory. Work is scoped around evolving priorities and includes new operational assets, architecture reviews, and technical guidance.
What the partnership includes
- -2–4 new operational assets per month
- -Architecture reviews and ongoing optimization
- -Quarterly Context Tax re-scoring
- -Async implementation and advisory support
Outcome: continued implementation momentum without surrendering ownership or creating permanent consultant dependence.
Explore Ongoing Partnership →Technical Complexity Shouldn’t Be Your Barrier.
You don’t need an internal DevOps team to establish your operational foundation or engage Kernel for implementation. Kernel handles the underlying repository architecture, technical configuration, and implementation within the agreed scope. Your team contributes the business knowledge and expertise that make the foundation yours.
For custom applications and integrations, any ongoing technical operating requirements are defined as part of the engagement and handoff.
Implementation & Technical Support
Enterprise AI platforms provide increasingly capable assistants and agents. When your requirements extend beyond those standard capabilities, Kernel can design and implement additional tools, applications, and technical connections built around your organization’s operational knowledge. These solutions work from your shared foundation rather than creating another isolated system of context.
This can include:
- -AI assistants and applications designed around your business knowledge and processes.
- -Technical connections that make organizational knowledge accessible to compatible systems.
- -Internal tools and applications built around your operational requirements.
- -Documentation, implementation guidance, and a defined technical handoff including any ongoing operating or maintenance requirements.
Every engagement defines its scope, responsibilities, ownership, and handoff arrangements upfront.
Kernel’s managed maintenance covers the underlying knowledge infrastructure, not the ongoing operation, administration, or configuration of customer AI applications. Those services, when needed, are separately scoped.
Explore Technical Solutions →Kernel is built for businesses that want to:
- ✓Give AI tools access to an authoritative, continuously maintained record of how the business operates.
- ✓Make company knowledge reusable across people, projects, and AI tools.
- ✓Build on a shared foundation rather than starting over with every new tool, assistant, or initiative.
- ✓Maintain ownership and control of their knowledge, systems, and future technology choices.
Two Ways to Work With Kernel
Find the Right Way to Build Your Foundation.
Start with a managed foundation or engage Kernel for more specialized architecture and implementation work.
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Custom Solutions
Design. Build. Extend.
For organizations with more complex architectural, integration, and implementation requirements.
Architecture design, business-line builds, technical implementation, and ongoing advisory.
Explore the engagements ↑Another way to start
Managed Plans
Establish. Maintain. Own.
For businesses looking to establish their own operational knowledge foundation through guided setup and ongoing technical maintenance.
Guided setup, repository synchronization, and ongoing technical infrastructure maintenance.
Explore managed plans →Custom Solutions
Have a More Complex Challenge?
Let’s discuss the architecture, implementation, or technical work your organization needs.
Discuss a Custom EngagementFor specialized architecture and implementation.
Looking for a simpler starting point? Explore Kernel’s managed plans.