Anima Kernel is a Berlin-based infrastructure company. We sign every fraud decision, authentication challenge, routing choice, and settlement batch with cryptographic attestations — creating tamper-evident records that survive disputes, audits, and regulatory scrutiny.
Logging tells you what happened. Attestation proves it. We believe every automated decision that moves money should carry a cryptographic proof — verifiable by any party, reproducible under dispute, and free of sensitive data.
Traditional audit trails are database rows — mutable, deniable, scope-expanding. Attestations are signed commitments: tamper-evident by construction, zero PCI scope by design.
We don't compete with fraud vendors or PSPs. We sit underneath them, signing their decisions. The attestation layer is orthogonal to the decision layer.
No raw PAN, no CVV, no biometric templates, no cardholder PII. If it's sensitive, hash it. If it's unnecessary, drop it. PCI scope should be a design choice, not an accident.
Every attestation we emit can be independently verified by any party — issuer, acquirer, regulator, court. No trust in Anima required. The math is the trust.
If we signed it, we can replay it. Same feature vector, same model weights, same seed → same output, byte for byte. Disputes become re-executions, not arguments.
Every state in our system carries both a color and a shape — never one alone. Accessibility isn't a feature; it's a constraint we design within.
Our users are analysts, not tourists. We optimize for information density, keyboard-first navigation, and reading speed — not whitespace and illustration.
Attestations outlive the systems that created them. Our format is self-describing, version-tagged, and independently parseable — designed for 10-year regulatory retention.
22 people across Berlin and London. Backgrounds in payment processing, applied cryptography, financial compliance, and distributed systems.
We're hiring engineers, solutions architects, and enterprise sellers in Berlin and London.