kaOS IntelligenceDOC 002 · ARCHITECTURE · REV 2026.07
¶ 1 · HOW IT'S BUILT
One layer, under everything you publish.
The kaOS intelligence layer sits between your documents and your readers. It makes each document knowledge-aware — able to answer, remember, speak, and translate — without moving a single file out of your house.
SURFACES · WHAT PEOPLE TOUCH
FolioPocketSeventyBook EvolveBookcastsSparks
THE KAOS INTELLIGENCE LAYER
Understanding
Every document read whole, not chunked blind.
Memory
What a reader asked in March still matters in May.
Councils
Multiple models deliberate; a judge settles it.
Voice
Every surface can speak and be spoken to.
YOUR SYSTEMS · WHERE IT ALL LIVES
Your catalogue, your CMS, your storefront, your archive. We build inside them. Nothing leaves.
I. Principles
What we will not compromise on.
Your data stays yours
The layer runs in your infrastructure. Catalogue, readers, telemetry — none of it becomes ours.
Whole documents, not fragments
Intelligence that has read the book, the contract, the syllabus — end to end — before it answers.
Deliberation over guesswork
For work that matters — translation, editorial — councils of models argue and a judge decides. One model's first draft is never the answer.
No lock-in
Take one product or five. Leave whenever you like. The systems keep working because they're yours.
II. Proof
The architecture isn't a diagram. It's running.
Everything on this page operates today in the kaOS Library — the free playground where publishers, students, and professors put the layer through its paces on real books.
¶ THE PRINCIPLES, IN WRITING
Where we stand.
The architecture is built on positions we will not abandon. The pilot, the stands, and the policies — each one a chapter.
IOur Story
IIOur Stand
IIIPolicies