Never lose a great story again.
We're building the searchable database for every story told on podcasts.
Early access launching November 2025
First 1,000 users get lifetime premium features
What you can do with KERNEL
Find stories
Database of stories from thousands of podcasts
Track changes
See how stories evolve and spread
See connections
Find stories you half-remember
The problem with stories today
You hear a fascinating story on a podcast. Weeks later, you want to reference it but can't remember which show, which episode, or even who told it. The story is lost in the noise.
KERNEL solves this
We extract, organize, and connect every story told across podcasts. Each narrative gets its own page showing all the times it's been told, who told it, and how it evolved.
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Extract
AI identifies complete stories within podcast episodes and transcribes key details.
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Connect
We group different tellings of the same story and track how narratives spread.
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Discover
Search by story content, not just keywords. Find narrative patterns across culture.
See stories in action
Explore curated collections showing how the same narratives appear across different podcasts
Tech origin myths
14 stories
Founders, garages, and happy accidents.
Popular stories:
“Apple garage founding”
“Facebook dorm room creation”
+1 more
Grit parables
11 stories
Trials that make the hero.
Popular stories:
“Dyson 5,127 prototypes”
“Colonel Sanders 1,009 rejections”
+1 more
Diet & biohacking lore
9 stories
Claims that never seem to die.
Popular stories:
“Tim Ferriss ice bath”
“Bulletproof coffee origin”
+1 more
Saying no to money
7 stories
Turning down funding and exits.
Popular stories:
“WhatsApp no ads pledge”
“Patagonia 1% pledge”
+1 more
Building the story infrastructure
We're systematically cataloging the narratives that flow through culture, starting with podcasts.
Now: Alpha
Browse curated story collections
Suggest stories for indexing
Join early access waitlist
Next: Search
Full-text story search
Story pages with sources
Story submission flow
Future: Intelligence
Propagation tracking
Narrative genealogy
Cultural trend prediction
Want early access?
Join the waitlist to be first to search our growing database when it launches.
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