Blog · 12 November 2026
Keel is the agentic AI platform that every Infrenic app runs on. It gives AI agents the things they need to do real work safely: knowledge from your documents with sources, connectors to your tools, approvals and identity, hardware access through an edge gateway, and monitoring of every run. Because new apps reuse the same core, later apps ship in days instead of months.
Why we built Keel
Every AI project we saw rebuilt the same plumbing: document search, tool connections, login, permissions, logging. That plumbing is most of the work, and most of the risk. Keel is that plumbing, built once and hardened in production, so each new project spends its time on the actual business problem.
What is inside Keel
- Agents: AI that does a job end to end, with tools and memory.
- Knowledge: answers from your documents, with the source every time.
- Connectors: email, helpdesk, CRM, drives, databases and your own APIs, plus MCP servers.
- Approvals and identity: single sign-on for people, scoped access for agents, and a person approves what matters.
- Hardware: cameras, sensors, scanners and machines, connected through an edge gateway in your network.
- Monitoring: every run logged, costed and tested before each change.
Apps that run on Keel
Help Desk, Lead Capture and Booking, Request and Approval, Invoice Desk, Knowledge Assistant, Monday Reports, Voice Receptionist, HR Onboarding and Contract Review. Hardware-connected apps include Machine Watch, Vision QC, Stock Counter, Fleet Dispatch, Lab Results and Smart Kiosk.
Each app is a thin layer on the same core. When one app gets a better connector or a stricter guardrail, every app benefits.
Who Keel is for
Small and mid-sized companies, 20 to 500 people, that know where their team loses hours but do not want to hire an AI team or run a six-month programme. Infrenic builds the app on Keel, deploys it in the customer's own cloud and runs it.
How Keel compares to building it yourself
- Do it yourself: months of plumbing before the first useful answer, and you own every incident.
- Generic chatbot tools: fast to start, but rarely connected to the systems where the work happens.
- Keel with Infrenic: a working agent on your data in 48 hours, production in 2 to 6 weeks, and we run it.
FAQ
Is Keel a product we can buy on its own?
Today Keel is used by the Infrenic team to build and run AI apps for customers. You get the app and the outcome, and you own the code, prompts and data.
Which AI models does Keel use?
Whichever fits the job and your rules: OpenAI, Anthropic, Google or open-source models running in your own cloud.
Can Keel connect to machines and sensors?
Yes. An edge gateway in your network connects cameras, PLCs, sensors and scanners over MQTT, OPC UA, Modbus, RTSP, serial and more.
Infrenic builds AI agents on your data and tools, ships them to production and runs them, all on Keel. Send us a problem and see it working in 48 hours.
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