KERNL

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Access controls

The homepage describes role-based, location-based, and document-level access controls for owners, managers, and staff.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

AI answers

Ask KERNL answers plain-English questions from the current version of uploaded manuals and policy documents, citing the source.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

AI model

The FAQ says KERNL uses OpenAI’s GPT-4o mini model and answers only from uploaded documents.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Compliance and data rights

KERNL describes its practices as GDPR and CCPA aligned, offers a Data Processing Agreement, and says users can export data or request deletion.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Compliance tracking

KERNL tracks document acknowledgments, training completion, and policy Q&A engagement across locations in a dashboard.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Data isolation

KERNL says every multi-tenant table has row-level security to isolate franchise networks’ data.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Document formats

The FAQ lists PDF and Microsoft Word (.docx) uploads up to 20MB each and says image-only scanned PDFs are not yet supported.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Integrations

The product pages list Google Docs as a supported document source alongside PDF and DOCX uploads.kernlappapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Intended customers

KERNL describes its audience as franchise networks and lists food service, retail, fitness, and service-based networks among the franchise types it serves.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Privacy

KERNL says it does not use customer data to train AI or machine-learning models without separate written consent.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Product

KERNL is a franchise knowledge and compliance platform where franchisees can get AI answers sourced from franchisors’ uploaded documents.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Security

KERNL says traffic uses TLS, stored data uses AES-256 encryption, and documents are stored in private Cloudflare R2 storage behind short-lived signed URLs.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Support

KERNL says the team typically responds to email within one business day.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

Training

Training modules can contain video links, documents, or written content and can be assigned to locations or individuals with due dates and completion requirements.kernlapp.com · read 7 Oct 2026

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