In our series, How startups build with Claude , we highlight how startups are transforming their industries with AI. In this article, we share how Kepler built a trust and verification layer for AI in financial services. The quick pitch Name Kepler Founded 2025 Founders Vinoo Ganesh (CEO) and John McRaven (CTO) Stack AWS, Rust, Python, containers for orchestration Growth Indexed 26M+ SEC filings, 50M+ public documents, 1M+ private documents, and 14,000+ companies across 27 global markets in less than three months. Financial firms operate in a heavily regulated environment where reporting has to be auditable and accountable. Every figure in a regulatory filing, deal pitch, or research report needs to be verifiable against source documents. The tools the financial industry has traditionally relied on can pull data, but they still require analysts for that verification process.…