N° 0026 · Press & Media
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Wire-ready company description
KairoNull is an AI governance evidence infrastructure platform built for regulated financial institutions. Founded in Cape Town under BlackFlag Digital, KairoNull produces cryptographically verifiable records of AI decision events: the events a customer's system reports, such as the request, the policy result, the human decision and the outcome, sealed in a SHA-256 hash chain when they are written.
Unlike AI governance dashboards that produce reports, KairoNull produces evidence. The distinction is architectural: records are written when the customer's system sends them, and alteration is detectable: any modification breaks the cryptographic chain. Integrity can be checked without access to KairoNull systems. This is not a statement that the records satisfy any legal or regulatory standard.
KairoNull targets the evidence gap between existing AI governance frameworks and the documentary requirements of the EU AI Act, FCA Consumer Duty, GDPR Article 22, and ISO 42001. The company is raising a seed round and is in active commercial conversations with regulated institutions in South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the European Union.
Quotable statements from the founder
"The organisations that will face the most scrutiny are the ones that adopted AI earliest and documented it least. Trust is not a defence when something goes wrong. Evidence is."
Dane Taylor, Founder & CEO, KairoNull
"Every major institution has observability for infrastructure, security for endpoints, and financial controls for transactions. The evidence layer for AI decisions is the infrastructure gap. That is what KairoNull is."
Dane Taylor, Founder & CEO, KairoNull
"The difference between what we produce and what every other governance tool produces is the difference between a security camera and a written note about what you think the camera saw. One is evidence. One is not."
Dane Taylor, Founder & CEO, KairoNull
Key facts
Founded
2026, Cape Town, South Africa
Parent company
BlackFlag Digital (Pty) Ltd
Category
AI Governance Evidence Infrastructure
Cryptographic standard
SHA-256 + RFC3161 timestamping
Target market
Regulated financial institutions (Banking, Financial Services and Insurance)
Regulatory context
EU AI Act, FCA, GDPR Art. 22, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF
Stage
Early. The ledger and hourly timestamp anchoring run in production for KairoNull's own test and benchmark records. No external customer pilot signed yet.
Raise
Seed SAFE · Target $1.5M–$2.5M · Pre-money cap $8M–$12M
Media assets
Sample Evidence Package
10 synthetic ledger entries (fictional agent and orders) with a real hash chain, anchored by a local demo timestamp authority that is not independent. Includes its recorded verification result.
Download JSON →Hash Verification Tool
Check the synthetic sample evidence package in your browser. No account required.
Open verification tool →Financial Services Deployment Scenario
Illustrative reference architecture: How a regulated lender might use UTP for decision records in credit decisioning. Not a customer and not a compliance claim.
Read scenario →
Regulatory Deadline Tracker
Live countdown to EU AI Act full applicability with obligation breakdown.
View deadline tracker →Request a press briefing.
Briefings run 20 minutes. We walk through the evidence architecture, the regulatory gap it closes, and what the product looks like in practice. Technical documentation available under embargo request. Response within 4 hours during business hours (SAST, UTC+2).