A Letter from the Kepler Team

To our users, collaborators, and the scientific community,

We built Kepler because we believed that agentic AI applied to science would change everything. Not incrementally. Fundamentally. We believed it would reshape how research is performed, how results are analyzed, and ultimately how human progress itself is accelerated.

Working alongside our customers, we watched this technology do extraordinary things. It lowered the cost and expertise required to wrestle with complex datasets. Problems that had demanded weeks of specialized effort could be explored in hours. We had the privilege of understanding genuine problems in science and building something that actually worked.

But the world moved faster than any of us anticipated. General-purpose coding agents emerged with capabilities far beyond software engineering and overtook the specialized systems we had been carefully constructing. We had focused on observability, provenance tracking, robustness, scalability — and yet those advantages mattered less than the sheer general capability of these platforms. What was revolutionary a year ago became commonplace.

We have arrived at a difficult but honest conclusion: specialized scientific agentic AI does not add enough value over what general agents can now accomplish. That is a hard sentence to write. But it is the truth, and we owe you that.

We still believe agentic AI is going to revolutionize science. But everything we learned building for science applies to nearly every other domain. This led us to create Coral, Inc. — using OpenClaw and the concept of an always-on general agent that connects disparate data sources into something coherent and useful. We built this for science within Kepler. Now we see it can serve every area of any size business. Find us at @Coral_Claw on Twitter, on LinkedIn, or at coral.inc directly.

To every researcher, engineer, and collaborator who believed that AI could make science faster — thank you. This was a labor of love, and we regret closing this chapter more than we can properly express. The work carries forward, and we hope to see you again at Coral, Inc.