01—About
Industry 5.0,on the floor.
Founded in 2021, Kerning AI is an operational intelligence platform for industries that make things in the physical world — kitchens, factories, hotel floors, automotive cells. We run on a single thesis: the leverage point in a real-world operation isn't a chatbot or a dashboard — it's an ontology.
02—Thesis
4.0 was automation.5.0 puts the human back.
Industry 4.0 was about wiring sensors, robots, and machines together to remove the human. Industry 5.0 puts the human back: the chef, the line lead, the maintenance engineer, the brigade trainer, the CFO.
Our agents work alongside them, with full audit trails of every decision. The platform is multilingual by default, runs sovereign-deployed where the customer needs it, and treats the front-line operator's tacit knowledge as a first-class data source.
03—Platform
Ontology
Equipment, recipes, people, suppliers, regulations — fused into a single object graph the whole company can reason on.
Agents
Reasoning, not reporting. Agents act on the ontology — humans approve consequential calls, agents do the boring work.
Human-centric
Built to work alongside the operator, not over them. Multilingual, sovereign-deployable, audit-trailed by default.
04—Commitments
Six things we promiseevery floor.
Industry 5.0 is not a marketing slogan. It's a working contract.
Human-in-the-loop
Agents propose; humans dispose. Every consequential action is approved by a named person, with a recorded reason, traceable later in the audit.
Augment, don't replace
We automate the boring work — clipboard logs, manual reads, paperwork — so the work that requires a human can keep its human.
Sovereign by default
Customer data resides in the customer's jurisdiction. Air-gapped, on-prem, or sovereign-cloud installations available without a sales-engineering call.
Resilient operations
The platform degrades gracefully — losing a sensor, a model, or an internet link doesn't stop the line. The operator's clipboard keeps working.
Sustainable as standard
Energy, water, gas and refrigerant are first-class signals — not a CSR-team add-on. Scope-2 carbon ledgering ships in the base product.
Multilingual on the floor
The line lead reads Hindi, the chef reads Tamil, the CFO reads English. The platform speaks all of them — and the language a workflow runs in is the operator's choice, not ours.
05—Leadership
The people behindthe platform.
Vibhaas Singh
CEO & Group Chairman
Drives the strategic vision behind Kerning AI's ontology-led approach. Leads cross-continent partnerships across India, the EU, and the UK.
Kartikeya Bakshi
Chief Operating Officer
Owns delivery and partner success. Translates complex back-of-house workflows into measurable AI deployments at hospitality, factory, and institutional scale.
Saurabh Singh
Chief Technology Officer
Architects the ontology, the agents, and the platform. Specialises in real-time sensor fusion, edge inference, and sovereign-deployable systems.
Vivek Tripathi
Chief Marketing Officer
Builds the brand and demand engine. Connects technical capability to operator language, telling the Industry 5.0 story across regions.
06—Locations
A team across three continents.
EU, Netherlands
Leiden
Schipholweg 13, 2316 XB Leiden
US, United States
Atlanta
1445 Woodmont Ln NW #1381, Atlanta GA 30318
APAC, India
Lucknow
Besides Phoenix United, LDA Lucknow, UP 226012
08—Contact
Let's createsomething epic.
A 30-minute call to map where AI fits in your operation — and where it doesn't yet. We reply within 24 hours.