AI data governance, without an enterprise stack

"AI data governance" usually means a six-figure enterprise product. If you are a solo founder, a consultancy, or a small studio, you still need to answer the same question: which AI touched which file, and was it allowed to? Kobel is the small-team answer.

The three jobs of a governance layer

• Scope — decide up front what each AI may touch.
• Enforce — block anything outside that scope.
• Audit — know after the fact what actually happened.

Kobel does all three on your own machine — Windows or macOS — without a server of ours in the path, and without exposing your files to yet another cloud. Free to start; a one-time licence or a monthly plan if you need the Pro features.

Scope with five colors

Red, orange, yellow, teal, green. Each folder gets one. The color is the policy.

Enforce via MCP

Every AI assistant that speaks MCP goes through Kobel. Requests outside the policy are refused at the gateway.

Audit in one log

Every read, write, and delete is recorded with timestamp and AI identity. Export to CSV for your records.

Data residency

Your file contents stay on the device. Permission checks are local, and file contents never reach Kobel's infrastructure because there is no Kobel infrastructure in that path. Licence validation and update checks are the only routine connections; cloud folders, social accounts and the ChatGPT tunnel are optional and disabled until you switch them on.