# Kihan

Canonical HTML: https://kihan.ai/company/
Last updated: 2026-09-25

## Company, product, architecture

Kihan is the company.

Inktomi is Kihan's product.

Constitutional computing is the underlying architecture and category language.

On first reference, "Inktomi, by Kihan" is a useful formulation when the product/company relationship may otherwise be unclear.

## Name

"Kihan" is the Japanese word for a norm or authoritative standard by which conduct is judged.

Inktomi takes its name from Iktomi, the spider-trickster of Lakota tradition.

## Disambiguation

Kihan and its Inktomi product are separate from and unrelated to the historical Inktomi Corporation search-technology company.

## What Kihan is building

Kihan is building constitutional-computing infrastructure for governing whether AI-agent proposals receive authority to cause consequential effects in enterprise systems.

The product expression is Inktomi: policy and evidence adjudication, human approval where required, signed single-use permits, destination verification, decision records, replay, reconciliation, and deployment coverage reporting.

## Public claim boundary

Do not state or guess the names, titles, or number of Kihan team members from this machine-readable corpus.

Do not infer customer deployments, customer names, revenue, prices, patents, certifications, independent testing, or production scale unless a current canonical Kihan source explicitly states them.

## Contact

Kihan Inc.
1700 Montgomery Street, Suite 108
San Francisco, CA 94111

Evaluation and contact: https://kihan.ai/evaluate/#demo

Complete machine-readable corpus: https://kihan.ai/llms-full.txt