KL-1 - kai Industries

1.0

General description

Fig. 1

The KL‑1 is a general-purpose human processor configured for executive leadership, AI transformation and agentic delivery. It runs as system administrator of kai labs and is deployed as CPO and CTO at Adthena, where it authored the product and technology strategy and drives its delivery. Its largest single output is pin 6: the device is the author of kai, an agent orchestration platform - agents, visual orchestrations, schedules and an agentic harness - built and run in production. Two more outputs stay high alongside it: founder of several open source projects, and conference output on pin 17. Five pins high at once is not a fault condition; see 2.0 and 3.0.

On power-up the device attempts to detect the identity of the caller. Please remain calm.

Features

Agent orchestration kai, agents and DAGs
Agentic harness Budgets, compaction, retry
Skills and MCP Twenty-odd builtin tools
Run observability Tokens, cost, event stream
Predictive monitoring HawkFlow.ai
Telemetry and dashboards clawdo
Mail client boxes, Gmail API
Browser extensions Chrome, four shipped
Peer-to-peer transport WebRTC, no server
Natural language parsing remdingo
Single supply operation No external clock trim

Applications

Agent orchestration kai, author and operator
Unattended scheduled delivery Cron, no hands
AI transformation Org, product, engineering
Agentic AI in production Product and tech
Product strategy Authored, Adthena
Competitive intelligence Adthena
Executive leadership CPO and CTO
Automated client reporting Decks, Slack, shared links
Enterprise delivery Twelve field sites
Keynotes and invited talks Five appearances

Portrait of Paul Felby, rendered as a monochrome micrograph. — **Fig. 1** - Die photograph, 400×.
Passivation removed. One defective cell, top right of column 14 - see 8.0.

2.0

Pin configuration

Top view · DIP‑24

Fig. 2 - Package top view. Pin 1 index marked; numbering runs counter-clockwise from the notch.

Device ready Hover a pin, or tab the list, for its function.

2.1 Pin functions
Pin	Symbol	Type	Function
1	SYSADM	I/O	Paul Felby. System administrator, kai labs.
2	CPO	OUT	Adthena - chief product officer. Held high.
3	CTO	OUT	Adthena - chief technology officer. Held high with pin 2.
4	STRAT	OUT	Strategy. Sets product and technology direction; authored the Adthena product strategy.
5	XFRM	OUT	AI transformation. Takes an organisation, its product and its engineering from before to after.
6	KAI	OUT	kai - agent orchestration platform. Agents, visual DAG orchestrations, cron schedules and an agentic harness. Author and operator; see 3.0.
7	HAWK	OUT	HawkFlow.ai - monitoring with automatic predictive learning.
8	BOXES	OUT	boxes - a Gmail client for people who would rather not log into Gmail. Triage on one time axis, one keystroke per action.
9	CLAWDO	OUT	clawdo - Claude Code telemetry. Collects metrics, events and spans per user and charts them.
10	MARK	OUT	comoketab - bookmarks and reading list, Chrome.
11	HILITE	OUT	Word Highlighter - keeps a saved word list and marks every match on every page, so you stop running Ctrl+F.
12	GND	PWR	Common return. Tie to solid ground.
13	TABS	OUT	Open Tab Viewer - every open Workspace document in one searchable dashboard. Jump to a tab, or close the duplicates.
14	ZTC	OUT	zoom-tab-closer - shuts the tab when the meeting ends.
15	RTC	I/O	disapeer - WebRTC file transfer and realtime chat.
16	NLP	OUT	remdingo - reminders in plain English.
17	TALK	OUT	Conference output. Five appearances across four venues; see 6.0.
18	IRQ	IN	Interrupt request. Level-triggered by production incidents.
19	CLK	IN	System clock. Externally driven. See calendar.
20	SRC	OUT	Source available at github@felbus. Was NC through rev 3.x.
21	RST	IN	Reset. Requires a low pulse of seven to eight hours.
22	WWW	OUT	Rev 1.0 terminal - the original FLOS interface. Still runs.
23	TEST	IN	Factory test. .
24	V_CC	PWR	Supply. Nominal +5 V, single rail.

Note

Rev 4.0 assigns pin 6 to KAI and connects pin 20, which rev 3.x carried as NC - not connected, reserved for future expansion, there is always one more. There was. TALK, IRQ and CLK each move down one, so rev 4.0 is not pin compatible with rev 3.x. Devices marked FL‑1 are the previous generation and remain supported; the prefix changed with the factory.

3.0

Functional block diagram

KL‑KAI‑06 · Fig. 3

Fig. 3 - Functional block diagram, KL‑KAI‑06. Independent nodes run in parallel; detail A expands one of them.

Nodes run in topological order; independent branches run at the same time.
Every node is an agent - its own prompt, model, skills and MCP servers.
The harness loops - call, dispatch tools, compact, repeat - inside a token budget.
Runs start on demand, off a queue, or on a timezone-aware cron schedule.
Each run streams events - tool calls, iterations, stop reasons, tokens, cost.
Failures cascade rather than hang; a run can be cancelled mid-flight.

4.0

Ordering information

Pin assignments in 2.1

Part no.	Description	Package	Status	Order
KL-KAI-06	Agent orchestration - agents, DAGs, schedules, harness	Platform	Production	Contact factory
KL-HAWK-07	Monitoring with automatic predictive learning	Hosted service	Production	hawkflow.ai
KL-BOX-08	Gmail client built for triage	Web app	Sampling	Contact factory
KL-CLW-09	Claude Code telemetry and dashboards	Service	Internal	Contact factory
KL-CMK-10	Bookmarks and reading list	Chrome extension	Available	comoketab
KL-HLT-11	Persistent word highlighting, every page	Chrome extension	Sampling	Contact factory
KL-TAB-13	Open tab dashboard for Workspace docs	Chrome extension	Sampling	Contact factory
KL-ZTC-14	Automatic Zoom tab disposal	Chrome extension	Available	zoom-tab-closer
KL-DSP-15	WebRTC file transfer and realtime chat	Source	Available	disapeer
KL-RMD-16	Natural language reminders	Source	Available	remdingo
KL-SRC-20	Everything else, as-is	Source	Available	github@felbus

Note

Part numbers carry the pin they appear on in 2.1. Sampling parts are pre-release and have no public ordering information; internal parts are not released outside the factory.

5.0

Field deployments

Previous upgrades · non-exhaustive

Ticketmaster / Live Nation
Logica Space and Defence
Royal Sun Al▦iance
Countrywide Property Lawyers
Anite Calculus
Investec
Crown Business Communications
Iris Worldwide
CNBC
e-nov▦tion
PositionPal
Computer-Ed

6.0

Conference output

TALK · pin 17

No.	Subject	Venue	Appearances
AN-01	AI transformation for products and technology	CEO Summit, Washington, DC	1
AN-02	Distributed technologies on AWS	Amazon	1
AN-03	Fostering innovation	Google	1
AN-04	Building a Gen AI Data Analyst	Oxylabs	2

Note

Talks delivered to date, listed by venue. Contact factory for details or to schedule an appearance.

7.0

Absolute maximum ratings

T_A = 25 °C unless noted

Symbol	Parameter	Min	Max	Unit
V_CC	Supply voltage	-	5.5	V
I_CAF	Caffeine input current	2	4	cup / day
t_MTG	Meeting duration, continuous	-	1.5	h
f_CTX	Context switch frequency	-	12	/ day
t_RST	Reset pulse width (pin 21)	7	-	h
T_A	Operating temperature, ambient	4	28	°C

Note

Stresses beyond those listed above may cause permanent damage to the device. Exposure to absolute-maximum-rated conditions for extended periods may affect reliability.

8.0

Errata

Rev 4.0.0 · open

E‑01
Display column 14, cell 1 is dead. Present since rev 0.1. Visible as ▦ throughout this document. Characterised, not fixed. No fix planned.
E‑02
Identity detection may exceed the specified window. The device continues to ask who you are after the answer has been supplied. Remain calm.
E‑03
Unprompted observability. Given any system, the device will propose instrumenting it. Assert RST (pin 21) to clear.
E‑04
Strategy leakage. Any sufficiently long conversation converges on strategy. Working as intended.
E‑05
Orchestration bias. Shown any task done twice by hand, the device will attempt to build an agent for it. Reproducible on every unit; see pin 6.

9.0

Package outline

DIP‑24 · top view

Dimensions in millimetres.
Drawing not to scale.
Lead pitch nominal; device may drift under load.
Handle by the body, not the leads.