Kindo

Kindo is an enterprise AI platform that lets organizations adopt and centrally manage artificial intelligence across their workforce. Through a no-code interface, employees can interact with commercial, open-source, and private models from a single chat experience, while IT and security teams retain centralized control over who can access which models, applications, and data sources. The platform connects to more than 200 SaaS business applications and manages the flow of data into and out of AI systems, with governance of employee access and permissions, audit logs, usage tracking, and analytics covering AI prompts, data, and workflows.

The end-user product is organized around several capabilities: model-agnostic chat, connection and indexing of private data sources such as Google Drive for question-answering over documents, user-built assistants defined by a system prompt and an attached knowledge store, agents that function as LLM-driven workflows for repeatable or high-volume tasks, and managed plug-ins such as developer IDE coding models that allow engineers to use coding assistants without exposing company code to third-party AI services. Company leadership describes Kindo as an orchestration layer, accessible via API, that allows enterprises to integrate any AI model—including their own—and to define which agents may communicate with which models.

More recently the company positions itself around agentic, AI-native automation and autonomous infrastructure, describing its goal as modernizing enterprise operations so that infrastructure is self-securing and intelligent by design.

Founding story

Ron Williams conceived of Kindo after Stability AI released the open-source image model Stable Diffusion in August 2022, concluding that AI had become accessible, affordable, and useful enough for broad adoption and that CIOs and CSOs would soon need to manage an influx of AI tools into their organizations. Drawing on his experience as an IT and security executive, he anticipated that enterprises would want to adopt open-source and commercial AI while remaining concerned about how those systems would interact with private data, and framed the original pitch around securely controlling the orchestration of AI within an organization. Bryan Vann, who had decided to leave Google as generative AI took off, joined in April 2023 as co-founder and CTO after Williams had already started the company, then named Usable Machines.

Business model

Kindo sells a platform to enterprises that centralizes access to AI models, positioned so that customers pay once for AI access from any model and use it across the organization through a single interface, with IT and security administration built in.

Traction

Kindo raised a $7 million seed round in 2023 and $20.6 million in 2024, reaching $27.6 million in total funding. Leadership cited signing the company's first customer as an early milestone; specific customer counts and revenue figures were not disclosed.

Latest developments

In July 2024 Kindo announced $20.6 million in funding led by Drive Capital, to be used for product development and R&D in AI security and management, expanded sales and marketing, and hiring, and acquired the open-source security project WhiteRabbitNeo. The company has since positioned its work around agentic AI-native automation and autonomous infrastructure, and has been recruiting across engineering, AI research, marketing, and sales while promoting live demos at Black Hat.