Kernvel Labs · Product company + engineering studio

We build the intelligence layer for modern commerce.

Seven Shopify apps are live, one is in review, and Nearza proves our reach beyond Shopify: a role-built local-commerce platform. We ship the products, APIs, and operating systems ourselves — then bring that same depth to ambitious client work.

7 apps live on Shopify 1 app in review Verified Shopify Partner Halifax + Pune
How Kernvel creates value Built and operated by us

From commerce problem to live product.

We find a valuable problem, engineer the complete system, and keep improving it in production.

  1. 01
    Find the opportunity Merchant pain, workflow gaps, and market demand.
  2. 02
    Build the intelligence Product UX, AI, APIs, data, and infrastructure.
  3. 03
    Ship and operate Launch, monitor, support, and improve real software.
What this creates
7 live apps + 1 in review Nearza platform Client products

One local-commerce platform. Three role-built experiences. Your brand.

Nearza unifies customer discovery, merchant operations, and delivery execution in a configurable white-label suite — coordinated through a central tenant and app-management experience.

Implemented across the core owned workflow and currently in active production-readiness.

01

Customer commerce

Local discovery, ordering, payments, and live fulfilment context.

Experience
02

Merchant operations

Catalog, order, availability, promotion, and performance workflows.

Operations
03

Delivery execution

Assignment, route context, proof of delivery, and status progression.

Execution
04

Tenant App Factory

Configurable branding, vertical contracts, integrations, and release workflows.

Control

Eight Apps. One Intelligent Store.

Each app solves a specific problem with AI at its core — and together they cover the full operating loop of a modern Shopify merchant.

A

Kernvel AI Auction

Live on Shopify

The only Shopify auction app with AI built in — six auction types, AI pricing, fraud protection, and real-time bidding.

  • Six auction formats: Standard, Proxy, Popcorn anti-snipe, Penny, Dutch, and Sealed-Bid
  • AI suggests starting prices, reserves, and bid increments — with a confidence score on every recommendation
  • Real-time bidding under 100ms with AI fraud scoring on every single bid
L

Kernvel ListIQ

Live on Shopify

AI-powered wishlists with demand intelligence, built-in email marketing, and full-funnel conversion analytics.

  • Multi-wishlist per customer with seamless guest-to-signed-in merge — no lost saves across devices
  • Demand intelligence layers wishlist velocity over live inventory to surface high-demand / low-stock items
  • Built-in email marketing with AI-generated subject lines and body copy — native SendGrid & Klaviyo
G

Kernvel GateIQ

Live on Shopify

Content gating and memberships with a real AI engine — and the only gating app on Shopify with a bot-proof checkout hard-gate.

  • 29 condition types across 8 resource types (products, collections, pages, prices, whole store) with AND/OR/NOT composition
  • AI engine: type rules in plain English, predict members about to leave, catch credential sharing and bot traffic
  • Server-side checkout enforcement — even bots bypassing the UI can't complete a gated purchase
S

Kernvel StockIQ

Live on Shopify

AI inventory forecasting and demand sensing for Shopify — stepping into the gap Stocky leaves behind on August 31.

  • AI demand forecasts that learn your store's seasonality, trends, and weekly rhythm — not rebranded moving averages
  • External signals like trends and weather automatically adjust per-product demand predictions
  • Ask your inventory anything in plain English — answers grounded in your live store data
R

Kernvel ReturnsIQ

Live on Shopify

AI returns and refunds for Shopify — score every return for fraud, verify photos, and pick the smartest outcome automatically.

  • Fraud risk score on every return — auto-approve clean ones, block obvious fraud, queue the rest with a clear breakdown
  • Photo authenticity checks catch reused, doctored, or stock images before they earn a free refund
  • AI picks the best outcome — refund, store credit, or exchange — and flags returns before they ship
S

Kernvel Image SearchIQ

Live on Shopify

AI visual search for Shopify — let shoppers find products by photo instead of guessing the right words.

  • Shoppers snap or upload a photo and instantly see the visually-matching products in your store — no search terms needed
  • Refine results with words too ("this style, but in blue") and crop to the exact item in a busy photo
  • See which looks shoppers want but you don't stock yet — a demand signal you can merchandise against
V

Kernvel VendorIQ

Live on Shopify

Turn your store into an AI-powered multi-vendor marketplace — vendors onboard themselves, orders split automatically, and everyone gets paid on schedule.

  • A self-service vendor portal, automatic order splitting, and commission rules — no leaving Shopify
  • Automated payouts by Stripe, PayPal, or bank, plus a storefront with vendor pages, reviews, and Q&A
  • AI across the whole marketplace: vendor vetting, order-fraud detection, listing quality, and disputes
S

Kernvel SupportIQ

The AI support agent that resolves Shopify tickets end-to-end — refunds, cancellations, tracking — grounded in your own store data.

  • Takes real Shopify actions, not just suggested replies — refunds, cancels, address edits, all within your caps
  • Answers grounded in your own policies and order data, and escalates to a human when it's unsure
  • Flat monthly price with hard caps — never a charge per resolution

Eight Apps That Talk to Each Other

This is the part no one else has. Install any two Kernvel apps and they recognise each other automatically — no code, no API keys, no data mapping — and start sharing privacy-safe signals that make every app smarter.

Stitch together point solutions from eight different vendors and you get eight silos that can't share a single signal. Ours were built as one system. A return flagged in one app tightens a payout in another. A shopper's whole history assembles itself the moment they open a ticket. Every app you add makes the others sharper — a compounding advantage a single-app competitor structurally cannot copy.
ONE DATA MESH Customer & Product context, shared live SupportIQ AuctionAI ListIQ GateIQ StockIQ ReturnsIQ SearchIQ VendorIQ
ListIQ GateIQ ReturnsIQ AuctionAI SupportIQ

The whole customer, the moment they message

Open a ticket and SupportIQ has already assembled that shopper's wishlist, membership tier, return risk, and auction bids — live from four sister apps. The agent treats a VIP member differently from a serial returner, automatically, with no back-and-forth.

ReturnsIQ VendorIQ

Return risk that protects your payouts

When a vendor's products come back too often, VendorIQ automatically holds a reserve on their payout — reading the settled return rate ReturnsIQ already tracks. You stop over-paying on sales that get refunded tomorrow, without withholding from vendors who don't need it.

ListIQ SearchIQ VendorIQ StockIQ

Demand and supply meet inventory planning

Wishlist velocity from ListIQ, the looks shoppers search for but you don't stock from SearchIQ, and the units your vendors ship in VendorIQ all flow to StockIQ — so its forecasts reflect real demand and incoming supply, not just what sold last month.

StockIQ ReturnsIQ GateIQ SupportIQ

The whole product, in one lookup

"Is this back in stock?" "Why does this keep getting returned?" "Is it members-only?" SupportIQ's Product 360 answers from StockIQ's inventory, ReturnsIQ's return history, and GateIQ's access rules at once — one lookup, the full story.

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Auto-connect, zero config

Install two Kernvel apps and they recognise each other. No API keys, no data mapping, no developer.

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Minimal signals only

Counts, flags, tiers, and product IDs — never raw customer lists. Useful context, not a data dump.

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Private & authenticated

Apps talk over a private, app-to-app channel — assembled on demand, never exposed publicly.

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Degrades gracefully

A missing or slow app is simply skipped. A connection never breaks a ticket, a payout, or a page.

Shipping in Order

We shipped them one at a time, each polished through Shopify's review — seven are live today, and one more is in App Store review right now.

AuctionAI

Live on Shopify

ListIQ

Live on Shopify

GateIQ

Live on Shopify

StockIQ

Live on Shopify

ReturnsIQ

Live on Shopify

SearchIQ

Live on Shopify

VendorIQ

Live on Shopify

Built to One Standard

Eight apps built by one team, on one Shopify-native foundation. The seams don't show.

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Shared Foundation

Every Kernvel app is built on the same Shopify-embedded auth, the same native Shopify admin look-and-feel, the same billing defense pattern, and the same quality bar. No integration cliffs between products.

🧠

Real AI Everywhere

The right AI for each job — pricing intelligence in auctions, demand forecasting in inventory, churn prediction in memberships, content generation everywhere. Every AI feature has a sensible fallback, so it never breaks just because the AI is slow.

🛡️

Merchant-First Billing

Free tier forever on every app. Hard caps instead of fake "unlimited." A 14-day free trial on every paid tier. A three-layer billing defense (pre-flight check → API 402 enforcement → webhook reconcile) so a billing edge case never breaks your store.

Built Different, By Design

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AI-First Architecture

Every feature starts with the question: "How can ML make this better?" When rules work, we ship rules. When rules hit their ceiling, we ship models — and we tell you which one is running.

Reliability Obsessed

Sub-100ms access checks. Real-time updates with automatic recovery if your connection drops. Graceful degradation on every external dependency. Our infrastructure discipline is what lets us ship features other indie apps can't afford to run.

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Merchant-Focused

We're Shopify merchants ourselves. Every feature exists because a real merchant needed it. No bloat, no enterprise upsell gates — just tools that make you more money than they cost.

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The Team Behind These Apps Can Build Yours

Everything above — eight AI-native Shopify apps, real AI, production infrastructure — we designed, shipped, and run ourselves. Now we take on a limited number of client projects. We'll build your store or app — and grow it too, with data-driven marketing: paid ads, SEO, email, and conversion.

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Shopify App Development

Public App Store apps or private custom apps — embedded admin, billing, webhooks, and App Store review. We ship to the App Store and clear review every time.

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White-Label for Agencies

Senior Shopify and AI capacity under your brand. We build to your standards and deadlines; you ship to your client. NDA-friendly, overflow or ongoing.

🎨

Custom Storefronts & Themes

Conversion-focused storefronts, custom themes, and theme app extensions that feel native to Shopify and load fast.

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AI & Automation

Real AI in your store or product — recommendations, fraud scoring, demand forecasting, visual search, and plain-English assistants.

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Full-Stack Web & Mobile

Beyond Shopify: custom SaaS, dashboards, APIs, and cross-platform mobile apps — built on the same proven backend and AI foundations as our apps.

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Cloud, DevOps & Scaling

Containers, CI/CD, monitoring, and cost-aware scaling on Google Cloud and DigitalOcean — the work that keeps apps fast and online.

Ready to Run a Smarter Shopify Store?

Seven apps are live on the Shopify App Store today, with one more in review. Browse the ecosystem to install the ones that fit your store, or book a 30-minute call and we'll help you choose.