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KERNEL

Kernel is crazy fast, open source infra for AI agents to access the internet 🧠🕸️ - Built on unikernels for crazy fast cold starts and low resource usage - Sub-150ms cold starts on managed headful browsers - Built-in stealth mode with residential proxies and automatic CAPTCHA solving - Full observability: session recording, live view, and full logs - Persistent sessions that maintain cookies and auth across invocations - Native support for all browser and computer use frameworks - SOC 2 complia

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Evidence entries preserved.
affiliations
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Y Combinator
competitors
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D1 lookup
last updated
2026-07-15
16:41 UTC
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Why this company exists here

Y Combinator

yc-company-directory #2953

Kernel is crazy fast, open source infra for AI agents to access the internet 🧠🕸️ - Built on unikernels for crazy fast cold starts and low resource usage - Sub-150ms cold starts on managed headful browsers - Built-in stealth mode with residential proxies and automatic CAPTCHA solving - Full observability: session recording, live view, and full logs - Persistent sessions that maintain cookies and auth across invocations - Native support for all browser and computer use frameworks - SOC 2 complia

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High Signal interpretation

KERNEL is classified as AI agents from source descriptions and fund-directory context. Similar companies below are ranked from offline product facets and meaningful description overlap; category and source affiliation can only strengthen an existing product match. For lookup-created rows, the profile starts as pending enrichment until deeper source collection runs.

offline extraction
Product facets
unikernelssession recordinglive viewKernelresidential proxiesmanaged headful browsers
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Similarity graph

Local clusters rerank extracted product concepts and description terms. The generated graph remains the fallback for sparse descriptions: offline reciprocal product-similarity graph: extracted concepts + description terms + bounded category/affiliation boosts. Minimum fallback score: 0; max competitors: 6.

discovery cluster

Companies similar to KERNEL

AI agents · 6 peers

A deterministic local cluster built from offline product facets and meaningful description terms. Category and selected-institution affiliation provide bounded tie-breaks. Open any peer to continue exploring its cluster.

Intuned

match 70

Intuned is a code-first browser automation platform with an AI agent that builds and maintains your automations. Developers use Intuned to deploy scrapers, RPAs, and crawlers as production-ready TypeScript or Python projects — with stealth, CAPTCHA solving, proxies, auth, and scheduling handled out of the box. The agent builds projects from a prompt, fixes failed runs, and can self-heal automations autonomously when websites change.

shared extracted concept terms: proxie; shared product terms: browser, maintain, stealth, captcha; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

RamAIn

match 43

RamAIn can intelligently automate any super complex and repetitive process across applications (Browser & Desktop) super fast. It doesn’t matter whether you have API access or not - if you can see it, RamAIn can do it. Simply chat with it and get your UI task as a composable API - fully managed, self-healing and self-evolving!

shared extracted concept terms: manag; shared product terms: fast, acces, manag, browser; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

ContextFort

match 43

ContextFort gives security teams visibility and controls for AI browser agents. It’s a Chrome extension that: Detects when an AI agent takes control of the browser Records every action during the session (pages visited, clicks, text entry) Provides controls to prevent risky actions and cross-site data leakage

shared extracted concept terms: browser; shared product terms: browser, record, session; shared product theme: context and memory; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Sails Co.

match 38

The Sails Company was founded by the original author and maintainers of the Sails framework. In addition to free and open-source software, The Sails Company offers a full-service web & mobile studio and professional support for the tools we maintain.

shared product terms: full, maintain, support, framework; shared product theme: open source and local first; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Opensteer

match 38

Opensteer creates specialized AI agents in cloud computers that can integrate with anything. Each agent gets customizable browser access, tools, instructions, and guardrails, so it can work 24/7 exactly the way you need.

shared extracted concept terms: browser; shared product terms: acces, browser, computer; same category: AI agents; shared affiliation: Y Combinator

Interlock

match 17

We are still in stealth mode.

shared product terms: stealth, mode; shared affiliation: Y Combinator