ORBT Labs
Selected work · 2025 · Franchise · SaaS

KERNL.

Multi-tenant franchise document SaaS with AI chat over operating procedures. Built around the back-office tablet, not the marketing site.

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The brief.

Franchise operators have the same problem at every scale: a binder full of operating procedures that nobody reads, scattered across email, Drive, and a back-of-the-counter folder. Compliance gets done by memory. Onboarding takes weeks. The franchisor knows half the locations are out of date.

KERNL was built to be the single place a franchise's operating documents live — searchable by both humans and an AI chat that knows what's in them.

What we built.

Quick facts.

VerticalFranchise · SaaS
Year2025
StackNext.js · Neon · Clerk · Stripe · OpenAI
StatusLive
RoleDesign + build · ORBT Labs

Now.

KERNL is live with operators across the franchise vertical. LLC cleared, banking open, Stripe wiring in production. Next: a public self-serve tier that lets a single-location franchisee sign up without the franchisor's permission — the same product, shaped for the unit-level operator who's tired of waiting for HQ to upload the right document.

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