Kernel

The agent-native platform that industry software is built on. Every industry gets an OS. Every business gets its own version of it.

Industry software is slow to build and rigid to use.

Built from scratch

Every vertical software company rebuilds the same plumbing: data, permissions, workflows, and now AI.

One size fits nobody

Customers bend their work to fit the screens, and the real work moves to spreadsheets and email.

AI is bolted on

Chat assistants sit beside the system instead of working inside it, with the right data and permissions.

One platform, three layers.

Your businessEach customer’s own data, workflows and rules, layered on their industry’s OS by onboarding agents.
Industry OSData models, pages, workflows and agents for one industry, built by Ironbond or by vertical software partners.
KernelData, pages, permissions, workflows and agents that work like team members. Shared by every OS.

Customers describe their business. Agents tailor the OS.

  • A guided conversation about a normal day, spoken or typed.
  • Exports from the tools they use today.
  • Agents research the industry, fit the OS to the business and test it before handoff.
Kernel onboarding: a guided conversation that starts with 'Walk me through a normal day.'

Ready for work on day one.

  • Each team gets a home that leads with what needs action.
  • Work moves through the team’s own steps, with rules that hold for everyone.
  • Agents keep the work moving and bring people the decisions.
A dispatch home page: loads missing drivers, a live map of trucks on their routes, and pickups in the next 24 hours.

A demo environment on Kernel.

Every industry is a market for an OS.

$147Bspent on vertical software in 2025
$283Bprojected by 2031

Source: Mordor Intelligence, Vertical Software Market

Two ways to sell Kernel.

Direct

Our own OSes

Ironbond builds OSes and sells them to operators as a subscription per account.

Partners

Vertical software companies

Partners build their OS on Kernel and sell it to their customers. We earn a platform fee on every account.

Agent usage is passed through at cost.

Prove the model, then open the platform.

Now

Our first OSes

Built by Ironbond in industries where we’ve shipped software, sold directly.

Next

Partner OSes

Vertical software companies build on Kernel instead of rebuilding the platform themselves.

Later

OS marketplace

Publishers share OSes and add-ons; customers switch them on.

The only option that’s industry-ready and fitted to you.

Built for your industryTailored to your businessRuns your operationsLive in minutes
Industry software●—●—
Build-it-yourself platforms—◐if you build it●—
AI assistants———●
Kernel●●●●

Built for agents from the ground up.

Agents are members

Same roles, permissions and audit trail as people.

Tailored in minutes

Agents fit an OS to each customer from their story and data.

Layered by design

OS defaults and each customer’s changes stay separate, so both can evolve.

Isolated by design

Every customer gets their own database.

Built by an engineer who has shipped this before.

Joe Pritzel

Founder, Ironbond

  • SewerAI: built its agent platform and sandboxed agent compute (Series C).
  • Toro TMS: data and AI infrastructure for trucking (Series B).
  • Overdeliver: founder; took startups to their next round.
  • Noonlight: emergency response platform through acquisition; one patent.

Bootstrapped. Asking for credits, not capital.

Credits for model inference, sandboxes, databases and hosting go straight into building OSes and serving their first customers.

Emailjoe@ironbond.net

Productkernel.ironbond.net

Founderlinkedin.com/in/joe0