Why San Francisco

San Francisco remains the global center of gravity for AI. To strengthen product development, deepen relationships with enterprise partners, and scale NEKOD’s governance platform for vibe-coded applications, NEKOD has expanded operations to San Francisco.The decision was driven by three factors reshaping the AI landscape:

1. Faster product cycles

AI-native companies in San Francisco iterate at a tempo that is difficult to match elsewhere. Access to founders, engineers, and tool builders shortens feedback loops and accelerates experimentation.
For NEKOD, this pace enables faster evolution of our risk engine, compliance workflows, and multi-platform discovery modules.

2. Proximity to AI platform ecosystems

Many of the tools driving the rise of vibe coding (Replit, Vercel, Cursor, AI-driven coding, agent frameworks, and emerging LLM ops stacks) are built and tested in the Bay Area.
Being physically present allows NEKOD to collaborate earlier, integrate deeper, and align with the platforms shaping the next generation of enterprise app development.

3. Enterprise readiness and adoption

US enterprises, particularly in fintech and regulated industries, are moving quickly to formalize governance for AI-generated and business-built applications. San Francisco provides access to:

• innovation teams prototyping with AI agents

• enterprise architects designing new governance layers

• early customers seeking automated risk and compliance controls

This environment directly supports NEKOD’s mission.

Our focus in the Bay Area

With a presence in San Francisco, NEKOD is concentrating on:

Strengthening design partnerships

Deepening collaboration with enterprises already exploring vibe-coded workflows, especially in financial services, insurance, energy and travel.

Expanding platform integrations

Working closely with AI development platforms to ensure NEKOD can automatically discover, classify, and risk-score applications regardless of where or how they are built.

Scaling compliance automation

Aligning our policy-checking engine and governance automation modules with US frameworks, including sector-specific requirements relevant to banks and regulated industries.

Building our engineering and AI talent network

San Francisco provides access to a unique concentration of engineers and researchers working on agents, code-generation, security, and enterprise AI infrastructure, all core to NEKOD’s product roadmap.

This move marks a new phase in the company’s growth — one focused on deeper collaboration, rapid execution, and delivering the governance infrastructure required for safe, scalable, AI-driven innovation.