Circles
who it’s forLife is organized into Personal, Household, and Care Circles. A Care Circle lets a family help an older parent, with roles and permissions.
The problem
Life admin hides in email, letters, receipts, and bank statements. Deadlines and price increases are noticed late, and nobody keeps the whole picture.
How Keel works
From noticing to doing, and you decide the step that matters.
- 01Attend
Reads what you give it
Email and calendars you connect, mail you forward, letters and documents you photograph, and read-only bank data. Nothing else.
- 02Recognize
Finds the obligations
Pulls out amounts, due dates, renewals, and appointments, and learns patterns, such as how often you buy something.
- 03Anticipate
Keeps one Timeline
A single forward-looking view, ranked by what has the nearest consequence.
- 04Act with you
Proposes, then waits
Prepares the next step and proposes it. Nothing happens until you approve it, or until you’ve given a specific, limited permission for that kind of task.
- 05Record
Writes it to the Ledger
Every action is recorded in a tamper-evident Ledger you can inspect.
The building blocks
Built around four ideas.
Timeline
what’s nextEverything with a deadline or a consequence, in order of urgency.
Ledger
what happenedAn append-only, tamper-evident history of every action Keel takes.
Mandates
what’s allowedNarrow, revocable permissions you grant, for example a spending limit for one kind of purchase. Enforced in code, never assumed.
Diagrams use fictional examples.
Principles
What Keel will and won’t do.
- 01Keel earns the right to act.
It starts by observing. Autonomy is only ever granted by you.
- 02No surprises.
You never learn what Keel did from a bank statement.
- 03Show the evidence.
Every suggestion links to the document or transaction behind it.
- 04Your data is yours.
Full export, verified deletion, and no training on your personal data.
- 05No conflicted incentives.
No advertising, and no payments that change what Keel recommends.
Privacy and security
Narrow access, by design.
Keel works with sensitive information, so these rules are part of how it is being built.
- KeysEach Circle’s data is encrypted with its own key.
- BankBank access is read-only.
- SeparationThe part of Keel that reads your mail and documents is kept separate from the parts that can act.
- LogsNothing sensitive goes into logs.
Who’s building it
Built by Victor.
Keel is built by Victor, its founder, as a self-funded startup. Victor is a web and app developer; his client work is separate from Keel.
- Company
- Keel
- Stage
- In development, not yet open to users
- Funding
- Self-funded
- Founder
- Victor
- Contact
- hello@withvictor.dev
Status
In development.
Not yet open to users. Early testers will be invited later.
hello@withvictor.dev