Selected work · 2025 · Franchise · SaaS

KERNL.

One place every franchise location finds the current version of a document. Staff can ask it a question in plain English and get the answer with the page it came from. Built for the tablet behind the counter, not the marketing site.

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The brief.

Franchise operators have the same problem at every scale: a binder full of operating procedures that nobody reads, scattered across email, Drive, and a back-of-the-counter folder. Compliance gets done by memory. Onboarding takes weeks. The franchisor knows half the locations are out of date.

KERNL is the one place those documents live. People can search it, and so can a chat that has read every page.

What we built.

Quick facts.

VerticalFranchise · SaaS
Year2025
StackNext.js · Neon · Clerk · Stripe · OpenAI
StatusLive
RoleDesign + build · XALA Studio

Now.

KERNL is live and available on referral. Billing and the chat both run end to end. Next is a version a single location can sign up for on its own, without waiting for head office to upload the right document.

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