About Kiln
Built by eight people who got tired of switching tabs
Kiln started in a Lisbon flat in 2023 with one rule: if you have to reach for the mouse, we failed. Today eight of us ship the palette engineering teams open before their first coffee.
Fig. 01 The Lisbon studio, where the first palette was sketched
Manifesto
Every tab you open is a small tax on your attention. We think you should pay it once, then never again.
01
Keyboard first, mouse optional
Every action in Kiln gets a shortcut before it gets a button.
02
Fast is a feature
If a command takes longer than 50 ms to answer, we file it as a bug.
03
Your code stays yours
Indexes live on your machine. We never see your repositories.
04
Small team, long horizon
We would rather ship fewer things that still work in ten years.
Milestones
2023 → 2026
2023
First line of code
A weekend script that searched three tools at once.
2024
Public beta
1,200 teams joined the waitlist in a month.
2025
Extensions
Teams start writing their own commands.
2026
Agents
Changelog, Triage and Docs agents join the team.
The team
8 people · 6 time zones
01
Ada Morel
Co-founder, product · Lisbon
02
Jonas Berg
Co-founder, engineering · Berlin
03
Priya Nair
Search and ranking · London
04
Tomás Ruiz
Desktop app · Madrid
05
Lena Vogt
Design · Lisbon
06
Omar Haddad
Integrations · Amman
07
Sam Ortiz
Developer relations · Austin
08
Theo Lind
Security and infrastructure · Stockholm
Where we work
2 studios, 6 time zones
Lisbon
Our main studio. Four desks by the window and one very loud espresso machine.
Berlin
The engineering hub, in an old print works we share with a bookbinder.
Anywhere
Fridays are remote. One shared calendar keeps six time zones honest.
We’re hiring
Four open roles. Work from a studio or within three hours of Lisbon.
1
Senior Rust engineer
Core engine · Berlin or remote
Apply
2
Product designer
Design · Lisbon or remote
Apply
3
Developer advocate
Community · Remote, Europe
Apply
4
Support engineer
Customers · Lisbon
Apply
Every role comes with four-day focus weeks, a hardware budget, equity and one team offsite a year.
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