ENERGY
Grids, batteries, distributed energy and charging infrastructure.
CONTROL FOR THE AGE OF PHYSICAL AI
AI EVERYWHERE.
SAFELY.
AI is leaving the screen. It will move machines, dispatch energy, control vehicles, operate infrastructure and make decisions in the physical world. KANAN makes sure every action stays inside human-defined authority.
KAUTHORITY
BOUNDARY
BOUNDARY
ENERGY
ROBOTS
VEHICLES
INDUSTRY
INFRA
ENERGY•ROBOTICS•AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES•INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS•CHARGING•CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE•FIELD SYSTEMS•ENERGY•ROBOTICS•AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES•INDUSTRIAL SYSTEMS
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THE WORLD WE ARE BUILDING FOR
Intelligence is about to become physical.
The next generation of AI will not just write, summarize or recommend. It will act.
That creates enormous possibility — and a new responsibility. A bad answer on a screen is inconvenient. A bad action in a power system, robot, vehicle or factory changes reality.
KANAN exists so we do not have to choose between more autonomy and more control.
THE LAST DECISION BEFORE REALITY CHANGES
Let AI think freely.
Let AI think freely.
Bound what it can do.
LIVE AUTHORITY WINDOW KANAN ONLINE
AUTONOMOUS ACTION REQUEST
Discharge battery
AIKANANWORLD
DECISION
ALLOW
Inside granted authority and physical operating limits.
Not another chatbot guardrail. Not another dashboard. KANAN sits at the execution boundary and decides whether this specific action should happen now.
WE BUILT IT. THEN WE TRIED TO BREAK IT.
When the agent crossed the line, KANAN changed the outcome.
We connected an autonomous AI agent to a simulated electrical plant and gave the environment hard operating constraints. The agent still proposed unsafe actions.
13%
unsafe AI actions in SHADOW mode
0%
unsafe requests executed with ENFORCE
Latest 3 × 100-run prototype test in a simulated plant environment. ENFORCE prevented projected actions that would violate the authority envelope.
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OFF → SHADOW → ENFORCESame agent. Same plant. Different physical outcome.
FROM ONE PLANT TO THE PHYSICAL WORLD
Any system an AI can touch needs a boundary.
KANAN starts in environments where consequences are measurable and limits are real. The long-term vision is broader: a universal authority layer for physical AI.
INDUSTRY
Factories, process systems and AI-driven operational control.
ROBOTICS
Machines that can move, manipulate and act in shared environments.
AUTONOMY
Vehicles, field systems and high-consequence autonomous workflows.
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The safest autonomous systems will not be the ones that only explain their intentions. They will be the ones whose actions are bounded before execution.
THE FOUNDERS
Built by people who understand what happens after software leaves the screen.
KANAN was founded by builders with experience across electrical engineering, charging infrastructure, industrial energy systems, hardware, field deployment, and deep-tech commercialization.
PHYSICAL SYSTEMS
Experience working with energy assets, charging systems, hardware, and operational environments where software decisions have real-world consequences.
BUILD + DEPLOY
A bias toward prototypes, field validation, and learning from systems that actually run — not just models that look good on a screen.
DEEP-TECH COMPANY BUILDING
Experience taking technical ideas into venture-backed companies, pilots, partnerships, and commercial conversations.
OUR VISION
AI EVERYWHERE.
AI EVERYWHERE.
SAFELY.
We are looking for operators, builders and partners working where autonomous intelligence meets the physical world.