Keep your tools. Change one line.
AI governance usually fails when it asks people to change how they work. Kairos sits on the path your tools already use.
There's a pattern with workplace AI rules. Leadership writes a policy, IT picks an approved tool, and everyone is asked to switch. A few weeks later, half the team is quietly back in the tools they liked, because those were the ones that actually helped them get work done.
That isn't a discipline problem. It's a design problem. If following the rules means giving up your editor, people will find a way around the rules.
Start from the tools people already use
Kairos takes the opposite approach. Instead of asking your team to adopt something new, it sits on the path their tools already take to reach a model.
If you use an OpenAI-compatible editor or app, the change is small: point the base URL at https://api.kairos-ctx.ai/v1 and use a kai_ key. For OpenAI-compatible editors there's no plugin to install. Cursor, VS Code (through extensions like Continue or Cline), JetBrains AI, and other OpenAI-compatible clients can all work this way.
From the person typing, completions still feel normal. That's the point.
What rides along
Every request on that path goes through the same steps, in this order:
- Your key is checked, along with rate limits and budget.
- DLP scans the prompt and can redact secrets and common PII types, using about 16 named detectors plus custom rules your team sets.
- Policy checks run, and a request can be stopped here before it goes anywhere.
- The request is routed to one of the models you've connected, using your own provider keys.
- Context can be compressed within the limits your policy sets.
- Cost, routing, and DLP details are recorded.
None of that asks the person at the keyboard to do anything differently.
What we keep, and what we don't
By default, Kairos doesn't store message content. Audit logs are metadata, unless your team explicitly turns on context snapshots. We think that's the right default for a tool whose job is to reduce risk, not add a new place for sensitive text to pile up.
Two people, one path
For the owner or security lead, this is how you get visibility and controls without a fight: redaction and policy happen before the model call, and there's a record when someone asks what happened.
For everyone else, it's just their editor, working the way it did yesterday.
Try it on one tool first
Pick one editor or one app, change the base URL, and see how it feels. You can start on the free tier, or a 14-day trial that drops back to free instead of cutting you off.
Get started at kairos-ctx.ai.