About Tektolo
Tektolo builds small, reliable tools for real-world operations work. Each one is a tested engine over rules with sources. You can use it on the web, from your AI assistant, or over an API, and you get the same answer every way.
Why it exists
A lot of everyday work runs on rules: laws and regulations, deadlines, fee schedules, rate tables, standards, local amendments. The rules vary by place and change over time, and they live in scattered statutes, agency pages, PDFs and price lists. Applying them correctly is tedious, and getting them slightly wrong costs real money: a missed deadline, a penalty, a refund that should not have been kept, a price nobody can defend.
AI assistants are now the first place many people take these questions. They are fluent, and often close, but close is not the same as right, and they rarely show where a number came from.
Tektolo turns those rules into maintained data, with the source and the date for every line, and runs them in plain, tested code. Each tool does one job well. A person can check every number, and an assistant can call the tool instead of guessing and show you where the answer came from. We started with rental property, and we add a tool wherever people and their assistants need an answer they can rely on.
What’s in a name
Tektolo comes from the ancient Greek tekton (τέκτων): a builder. Not a carpenter or a mason; anyone who made things that had to hold. Put archi- in front and you get architect. The same root runs through technology. The word never settled on one trade. Neither will we.
The -olo is ours, a nod to the Latin diminutive (gladiolus: a little sword). A little builder. Small tools, each made to do one thing and hold up.
It's also fun to say: tek-TOH-lo.
How we build
- AI reads; code decides. Models help turn messy notes into structured inputs. The rules, prices and dates are applied by tested code.
- Every number has a source. Each rule carries its citation and the date it was checked. When we have to assume something, the result says so.
- Same input, same answer. Results are deterministic and carry a hash of the rules that produced them, so any answer can be re-run and audited.
- We say what we don't know. Estimates are ranges, not quotes. Hazards go to a licensed professional. Rules are not legal advice.
- Neutral by design. A rule gives the same answer whoever asks: both sides of a transaction can use the same tool. A tool applies the rule; it doesn't take a side.
Who builds it
Tektolo is built by Corey Kozak, an applied AI scientist with over ten years of turning messy real-world documents and data into systems that have to be right: OCR and document understanding, extraction, evaluation, and putting models into production.
That work taught one lesson that shapes everything here: a model is a good reader and a poor judge. So Tektolo uses AI where it is strong, reading the mess, and plain, tested code where being exactly right matters.
Tektolo is independent and self-funded, built in North Carolina. Much of the research and code is done with frontier AI agents; every rule keeps its source so anyone, including us, can check the work.
What you can use today
- Deposit settlementReturn the deposit on time with a compliant itemized statement, and know the exposure if you do not.
- Security deposit checkSee whether your landlord returned your deposit on time and which deductions your state's rule allows.
- Property turnover estimateA vendor-ready turnover scope and owner estimate in minutes, with every number traced to a source or a stated assumption.
Get in touch
Found a wrong rule or a number that looks off? That is the most useful thing you can tell us. Send feedback or email hello@tektolo.com.