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KAI Water & Energy builds forecasts, digital twins and apps for floods, utilities and irrigation, and studies water and energy below the ground. You use the products in the browser on one KAI account: GroundWater Analyst, HydroSaaS, KAI-Hydro, KAI-Subsurface and more. Based in Kampala, working anywhere.

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Live: GroundWater Analyst, HydroSaaS, KAI-Hydro and KAI-Subsurface. Live preview: KAI-GeoEnergy (the Reservoir Lab with KAI-Pilot). Early access: KAI-Hydropower, KAI-Geotech, KAI-River, KAI-Twin and KAI-Irrigation. The KAI Hive shows them all on one picture.

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Yes. Every product has a free plan, and the labs need no sign-in at all: drilling odds, the Heterogeneity Lab, the Plug-to-Block Lab and the Reservoir Lab. The HydroSaaS demo park is open too (its data is simulated).

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Click Login and give your email: we send you a link, so there is no password to remember. Where it is switched on you can also continue with Google or LinkedIn. One account opens every KAI product.

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Your workspace is the map you land on after signing in. It brings together the layers of the products you use (observations, forecasts, alerts and model results), a time bar to move back and forward, an alert inbox, the activity of your lab runs and KAI-Pilot questions, and saved views you can share with your organisation.

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Only the people in your organisation. Row-level security in the database keeps each organisation's data apart; in an industrial park, a tenant chooses what to share with the park operator (quantities, quality and alerts separately). KAI admins have read-only support access, so we can help when you ask.

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In the KAI portal's database, hosted by Supabase in its EU (Ireland) region. Your data stays yours; models built for you are licensed to you and kept private unless you ask us to publish.

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Yes. Write to us through the contact form from the email of the account and we delete the account and the data in it. Invoices we must keep by law are kept.

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Live: you can sign up and use it today, on a free or paid plan. Live preview: it works and is free to use while we finish it; paid plans are not open yet. Early access: join free now and be first to use it; early-access members get an introductory price when it launches.

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Each live product has four tiers: Free, Starter, Professional and Premium. Prices are in US dollars and exclude VAT. You pay by bank transfer or mobile money against an invoice; annual plans cost 10 months and cover 12. Free plans switch on at once; paid plans switch on when payment arrives, and you can cancel at the end of any billing period. See Pricing.

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Send a few lines through the contact form: where the site is, the decision you need to make and by when, and what data you already have. We reply within two working days with questions, a demo time or a short proposal. Studies are quoted as fixed-price projects.

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We say which, every time. The HydroSaaS demo park and factory demo use simulated data. The cases run on real public data (Utah FORGE, the Guadalquivir gauges, Zeerijp-3A core, the Bellinge sewer network), and forecasts made with the KAI engine on that data are labelled as simulated, with the misfits we found.

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With our own, privacy-first event log: no Google Analytics, no third-party scripts, no cookies for analytics, no IP addresses stored. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track we record nothing, and you can switch it off on the privacy page.

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No. KAI does not drill, hire out equipment or run field acquisition. We work with the data: we check a borehole site before you drill (GroundWater Analyst), give drilling odds from driller's logs, interpret well logs (KAI-Subsurface) and model reservoirs. Your driller or contractor does the field work.

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Your data stays yours. Models built for you are licensed to you for your use; we keep them private unless you ask us to publish.

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Where the water is before you drill: depth to water and to bedrock at a site, a cross-section through it, and the chance of finding enough water (drilling odds) from 3D groundwater models built on borehole records.

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Anyone about to pay for a borehole or plan many: drillers and their clients, water programmes, utilities and multi-district work. One site can be checked for a fixed price; a district or wellfield gets its own private 3D model.

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For a Site Check, the location of the site. To run drilling odds on your own area, upload driller's logs as CSV: one row per logged interval (well id, top and bottom depth, description), plus well locations; yields and water levels make the answer sharper. The Lab needs at least 15 wells with a location and a log.

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Tested blind on 595 wells it never saw, the drilling-odds model ranks wet and dry sites with an AUC of 0.83, and its stated chances match what happened. The test and its data are published with the Heterogeneity Lab.

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Site Check ($149 per site): depth to water and to bedrock at your site, a cross-section, nearby borehole records summarised, and a PDF report in 5 working days. Professional: a private 3D model of a district or wellfield, updated quarterly, with GIS downloads (water table, bedrock, sections).

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Open the drilling-odds demo or the 3D model without signing in, then switch on the free Explorer plan from Pricing. It includes one area check: we tell you what records exist.

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Where an industrial park's or a factory's water comes from, where it goes and what it carries: the park water balance and losses, pollutant loads and which outlet caused a spike, demand and borehole drawdown forecasts, and effluent checked against the NEMA 2020 limits with alerts.

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Factories that must meet effluent limits, and operators of industrial parks who run the bulk supply, boreholes, treatment and the outlets for many tenants. Tenants choose what they share with the park.

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On the free plan you enter lab results by hand. For live data, connect water meters or a gateway: each device gets its own key and posts readings to the portal (single readings or buffered batches). Lab results, meter readings and flows from SCADA all fit.

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On the real Bellinge sewer network in Denmark (about 1,000 manholes, blind tracer tests in EPA SWMM), it found the right manhole first time in 58 % of tests with 5 sensors, against 3 % for a random pick.

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The NEMA 2020 effluent discharge standards (for example BOD, COD, TSS, pH and metals). A breach or an early warning raises an alert the moment the reading arrives.

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Walk through the demo park (simulated data), then switch on Factory Free: one factory workspace and one outlet with NEMA limit checks. Live data and alerts start with the Factory plan; a whole park with the Park plan.

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Will the river reach a dangerous level in the next days, and how often would a flood trigger have paid? KAI-Hydro gives daily forecasts with Watch and Warning levels set with you, alerts by email or SMS, seasonal drought outlooks, and parametric trigger studies on GloFAS 5.0 with a payout band, back-test and basis-risk score.

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Teams who must act before a flood: district disaster teams, humanitarian programmes running anticipatory action, and anyone designing a trigger that releases money before the water rises. A single river site can start on the Basin plan.

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We tested them on 14 Spanish river gauges (286 gauge-years, 1998–2022). GloFAS 4.0 saw floods at about a fifth of their measured size, so a trigger set in m³/s would have paid in 6 of 60 flood years; GloFAS 5.0 removes most of that bias (26 of 60). How the trigger is written matters as much as the model: see the Guadalquivir case.

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The river sites you care about. If you have a gauge record (daily levels or flows as CSV) we use it to set and check the levels; without one, the forecast runs on the global GloFAS river flows and we say so.

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Read the demo forecast (a made-up river) and the Guadalquivir case, then switch on the free Outlook plan. A daily 5-day forecast for one site starts with the Basin plan.

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Well-log interpretation, geomodels and AI property prediction: from a log quality check and a quick-look (shale volume, porosity, water saturation, net pay) to a full petrophysical interpretation calibrated on core and tests, and field studies that carry properties between wells.

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Your well logs as LAS files; core and test data if you have them, for calibration. Send one well free for a log quality check. For other formats, ask us first.

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Seismic interpretation is not a KAI product today. KAI-Subsurface works from wells, logs and core: interpretation, rock typing, permeability and geomodels between wells. If your study needs seismic, tell us and we say plainly what we can and cannot do.

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Against measurements wherever they exist: core, tests and blind wells. In the Zeerijp-3A case, rock typing and permeability from logs are tested on public core, and the Plug-to-Block Lab checks kv/kh upscaling against 78 Zeerijp-3A plug pairs.

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Log QC (free): gaps, spikes and depth-shift flags for one well. Quick-look ($490 per well): shale volume, porosity, water saturation, net pay flags and a composite plot in 5 working days. Full interpretation ($1,500 per well): multi-mineral petrophysics, facies, core calibration, net pay with uncertainty, report and digital deliverables.

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Daily inflow forecasts for your reservoir, reservoir level and energy projections for each release plan, and spill and low-level warnings days ahead.

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Your reservoir's levels, releases and generation records, and the rain and river data you hold. We add satellite rain and global river-flow forecasts.

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Join free from the KAI-Hydropower page. You are first to use it, help shape it, and get the early-access price when it launches.

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An inventory of the ground data that already exists near your site, a site-investigation data pack before you drill or dig, and lab tests sourced through accredited partner labs.

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No. KAI sources laboratory tests through accredited partner labs and brings the results together with the existing ground data for your site.

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Join free from the KAI-Geotech page; early-access members get the introductory price when it launches.

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What a geothermal well pair (a doublet) will deliver over 30 years, and how sure you can be: produced temperature, heat and pressure with P10–P90 in the Reservoir Lab, and full ensemble runs on the KAI engine from your workspace.

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It is in live preview: the Reservoir Lab, full runs and KAI-Pilot are free while we finish it. Paid plans are not open yet; preview users get an introductory price when they open.

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The AI copilot in the Reservoir Lab. Ask a question in plain words; it answers on the Utah FORGE case from stored KAI engine runs (simulated results) and shows where every number comes from, with a provenance table and checks.

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The temperature model is checked against the measured log in well 58-32 and the forecasts against the 2024 circulation tests. We publish the misfits too: tracers arrive 20 to 50 times later than the model says. Forecasts are simulated and labelled; the notebooks that reproduce every number are open on GitHub. See the Utah FORGE case.

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The Reservoir Lab today plans geothermal doublets. CO₂ and hydrogen storage studies are part of KAI-GeoEnergy's plan; tell us about your site and we say what we can do now.

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Keep river cross-sections and ADCP gaugings in one database, keep rating curves and survey datums current, and export straight to HEC-RAS 1D and 2D.

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Your survey cross-sections, gaugings (discharge measurements) and stage records. KAI-River keeps them together so a rating curve or a hydraulic model always starts from the latest survey.

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Join free from the KAI-River page; early-access members get the introductory price when it launches.

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A live model of a basin, wellfield or network fed by sensors and satellites, with “what if” scenarios (flood, drought, pump failure) and one picture for planners and operators.

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The network or wellfield layout and the sensors you already run (levels, flows, pressures, pumps). We add weather and satellite data and keep the model in step with your readings.

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Join free from the KAI-Twin page; early-access members get the introductory price when it launches.

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Water-availability checks for estates and schemes, irrigation scheduling from weather forecasts, and seasonal rain and drought outlooks.

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Estates and irrigation schemes that need to know how much water they can count on this season and when to irrigate.

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Join free from the KAI-Irrigation page; early-access members get the introductory price when it launches.

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Free step-by-step tutorials on real data, each a notebook you can read online or run yourself, and hands-on courses for water, energy and geoscience teams taught on your own data. Course seats start at $250; team courses are quoted.

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