Kestrel

About

We build the layer between the tools.

Kestrel started in 2024 with one question: why does a company with forty apps still run on people copying things between them? We are fourteen people in San Francisco and remote, and we ship most weeks.

Kestrel started in 2024 with one question: why does a company with forty apps still run on people copying things between them? We are fourteen people in San Francisco and remote, and we ship most weeks.

The Kestrel team working together

The story

Approvals first. Then everything else.

The first version of Kestrel could do a lot and nobody would let it touch anything real. So we stopped adding agents and built the approvals inbox instead. Every action that touches a customer or a dollar waits for a person, and the edits people make become the examples for the next run.

That one decision is why ops, support and revenue teams trust it with real work. Everything since, from the run timeline to the integrations, plugs into the same layer.

2024

founded in San Francisco

14

people, six countries

2.4M

runs completed

1

rule: agents draft, people decide

What we believe

Three things we will not trade.

Safe by default

Anything that touches a customer or money waits for a person until you say otherwise.

Nothing hidden

Every run shows what it read, what it did and what it cost. Including the mistakes.

Your tools, not ours

We connect to what you already pay for. We do not ask you to move your data into a new place.

The team

The people who answer your email.

Four of the fourteen. Everyone here talks to customers every week.

Maya Okafor

Maya Okafor

Co-founder, CEO

Daniel Reyes

Daniel Reyes

Co-founder, CTO

Priya Raman

Priya Raman

Head of Product

Jonas Weber

Jonas Weber

Head of Engineering

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