Root Kernel

An agent-native technology startup building preference-grounded customer research systems

Root Kernel researches and builds AI Personas and synthetic audiences for surveys and design validation through repeated choice data and visual taste analysis.

We connect systematic data collection, virtual customer synthesis, and our own AI agent collaboration system into one coherent product and operating flow.

Root Kernel hero visual showing governed AI Agents passing through validation gates to create taste-grounded AI Personas and research outputs

Structure

What Root Kernel is building

AI Persona Synthesis Research is Root Kernel's core business area. Agent Technologies and Hermes Agent Supports provide the technical and operational foundation for building and validating that system.

AI Persona Synthesis Research

We support early research and design decisions with AI Personas and synthetic audiences that learn customer taste and preference.

AI Persona Synthesis Research

Agent Technologies

Collaboration platform technology where people and AI agents read documents, deliberate, and safely develop and validate systems together.

Agent Technologies

Hermes Agent Supports

An operating model for using AI not as a one-off tool, but as members of an organization with explicit roles and responsibilities.

Hermes Agent Supports

AI Operations

Development & Operations

Root Kernel delegates the full product development and operating flow to its own AI agent organization, so a small team can continuously run complex development and validation work.

AI-SPARK

Patent pending

spec-governed agent server governance
A safety governance system that splits natural-language requirements into spec, policy, approval, and runtime boundaries

AI-SPARK safety-gate image showing AI Agent changes passing through Spec and Policy checks plus Human Approval before reaching Runtime

Kkachi Agent Organization

In operation

Hermes-based Agent Operating Model
An agent operating system that distributes implementation, review, user perspective, documentation alignment, and UX judgment across multiple roles

KAO magpie-bridge image showing color-accented magpie Agents connecting work pieces toward a human-defined goal

Space Compiler

Research / implementation

preference & persona synthesis engine
An engine that combines AI and psychometrics to model preference space and synthesize virtual customers from repeated choice data

Space Compiler image showing repeated choices and visual taste signals compressed into a Preference Vector and transformed into a taste-grounded Persona Card