Kauri Labs intercepts every LLM API call across your organisation, eliminating 40 to 70% of redundant spend, enforcing classification controls, and giving finance the AI command centre they actually need.
Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating. The tools to govern it are not. The result is waste, risk, and zero accountability.
Employees deploy AI tools outside IT visibility, direct subscriptions, Copilot plugins, department API keys. Finance has no line of sight until the card statement arrives.
76% YoY increase in untracked AI spendBoards ask: what are we getting for our AI investment? No tool answers this. Cost dashboards show API consumption, not productivity delta, not cost-per-outcome.
Zero CFO-ready AI ROI tools exist today60 to 80% of enterprise LLM queries are functionally redundant across organisational boundaries. Every department pays separately for identical answers.
~$48K per month wasted at a 500-person orgA single AI agent in a recursive loop cost one Fortune 500 company $800-plus overnight. No enterprise tool monitors, caps, or kills runaway agent spend in real time.
$400M unbudgeted F500 agentic spend, GartnerKauri Labs intercepts every LLM API call before it reaches the model. Intelligence flows up. Cost flows down.
Spend by department, team, use case, and ROI outcome. Board-ready AI investment summaries.
4-tier cache with PII-stripped matching. 40 to 70% API cost eliminated silently.
PSPF (AUS) and NZISM (NZ) classification enforcement. NZEO sovereign handling.
Budget gates, per-call metering, recursive loop detection. Kill switch at 50 iterations.
Every feature answers a question your current tools cannot.
Every cache hit logged against the API call it replaced. Monthly CFO-signed savings report with total intercepted calls and net ROI.
Surface every AI tool being used across your organisation, direct subscriptions, browser plugins, department APIs.
Matching operates on PII-stripped, normalised vectors. Privacy is architectural, not policy.
Watchdog monitors every agent iteration in real time. Budget gates before launch. No more overnight billing surprises.
On-premise 3B LLM scans untagged files before transmission. Catches the spreadsheet with no classification header.
Automated Board summaries turning infrastructure logs into strategic AI governance intelligence.
The only platform built for PSPF and NZISM compliance. Every US competitor is architecturally disqualified from handling what we handle.
Savings-share pricing means your first month's savings cover the platform. Risk is ours. Value is yours.
Enterprise AI spending is accelerating toward USD 644 billion globally, growing 76% year-over-year. MENA is the fastest-growing region at 85% year-over-year. The governance infrastructure to manage that spend does not yet exist. Kauri Labs is building it.
Kauri Labs is incorporated in New Zealand, executing ANZ-first validation with MENA expansion from Month 12 and a US Series A targeted at Month 18 to 24. The PSPF and NZISM compliance moat takes 12 to 18 months to build, creating a structural advantage no competitor can replicate quickly.
The three-layer moat: CFO relationship ownership, PII-safe semantic deduplication IP, and PSPF and NZISM classification architecture. None of these can be replicated by adding features to an existing product.
Full investment thesis, market analysis, competitive positioning, financial projections, and government vertical deep-dive.
Download WhitepaperEarly-stage. High-conviction. ANZ-native, globally ambitious. Engineering capacity scales with funding. First engineering hire planned for Month 3 to 4 post close.
Own the proxy layer and semantic deduplication engine. LiteLLM, FastAPI, Qdrant, Presidio, Python. First engineering hire post-funding.
Apply →Former enterprise CFO with direct AI spend governance experience. Primary sales credibility and design partner introductions. Equity-based, 0.1 to 0.25%.
Express Interest →Former Dubai Future Foundation, AREA 2071, or UAE government technology figure. MENA government introduction pathway and UAE AI Strategy credibility.
Express Interest →Published work on entity recognition and embedding systems. PII normalisation pipeline and cache matching thresholds. Provisional patent co-inventor opportunity.
Apply →SOC 2 audit experience and CISO network. Shape the security architecture. IRAP alignment experience a strong advantage.
Express Interest →We have conviction, not a fixed org chart. If you see the opportunity and want to be part of building it, tell us what you would own.
Say Hello →For product questions, partnership conversations, or anything else.
hello@kaurilabs.ioPre-seed round open. Targeting ANZ angels, MENA family offices, and global investors with enterprise software or government technology experience.
investors@kaurilabs.ioOffering paid PSPF compliance audits (A$18K) and NZISM compliance audits (NZ$15K) as the first engagement.
government@kaurilabs.ioAuckland and Wellington, New Zealand. Expanding to Australia in 2026.