kenn software

Agentic systems for what comes next.

We are a small team of veteran builders led by Wes McKinney.
Kenn is building a new stack of development and knowledge systems for the agentic era.

open-source

  1. roborev Continuous code review and quality assurance for coding agents
    ★ 1.1k
  2. msgvault Offline archive and search system for email, texts, and chat, with agent-friendly CLI and MCP interfaces
    ★ 1.7k
  3. agentsview Unified archive, search, and token intelligence for over 20 coding agents
    ★ 1k
  4. middleman Local-first rapid development workflow system for modern coding platforms like GitHub and GitLab
    ★ 106
  5. kata Lightweight local-first issue tracker for coding agents, with human-friendly terminal UI
    ★ 205

team

  • Phillip Cloud

    Software engineer who works across systems programming, developer tooling, and analytics. Phillip has solved hard problems in digital video, Rust, computer vision, and Python-native CUDA APIs. He was for many years a prolific contributor to open-source analytics tools like pandas, Arrow, and Ibis. These days he spends much of his time building with AI.

  • Wes McKinney

    Influential open-source data systems developer, entrepreneur, and angel investor, focusing on data processing, developer tools, and community building. Wes started the Python pandas and Ibis projects and co-created Apache Arrow. Once upon a time an AI skeptic, he is now "all in" on agentic engineering and AI-powered application development.

  • Marius van Niekerk

    Experienced craftsman working at the intersection of AI, software, and infrastructure. Marius has built data systems across ad tech, health tech, backend data architecture, and open-source infrastructure, usually close to the places where reliability and scale start to matter. Across conda and conda-forge, he has helped to steer the ecosystem and to turn messy packaging problems into tools developers rely on every day.

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