FAQ — Licensing, Deployment, and Commercial Model

Q: Is Kestri an Oracle product or an Oracle reseller?

A: No. Kestri is an independent platform and does not resell, bundle, or sublicense Oracle software. All deployments operate under the customer’s existing Oracle licenses using a Bring Your Own License (BYOL) model.

Q: Do we need to purchase any additional database or infrastructure licenses from Kestri?

A: No. Customers use their own licensed Oracle infrastructure. Kestri does not provide database licenses or infrastructure services.

Q: What exactly are we paying Kestri for?

A: Kestri charges fees exclusively for its proprietary services:

In-place document decoding
Document-to-document comparison

No fees apply to database licensing, infrastructure, or data hosting.

Q: Does Kestri move, copy, or export our data to external systems or models?

A: No. Kestri operates in-place within customer-controlled infrastructure. Source documents and derived outputs remain within the customer environment. No data is exported to external models or third-party services.

Q: Does Kestri train AI models on our data or retain it for reuse?

A: No. Kestri does not train models on customer data, retain data for reuse, or broadcast source material to large language models.

Q: How does Kestri support audit, regulatory review, and legal defensibility?

A: All outputs are traceable to source documents and generated in-place. Each explanation can be reconstructed, reviewed, and validated by auditors, regulators, and counsel without reliance on external model inference.

Q: Can Kestri be deployed in restricted or regulated environments (healthcare, financial services, government)?

A: Yes. Kestri is designed for regulated environments and supports deployments where data residency, licensing control, and auditability are mandatory requirements.

Q: Who owns the outputs and derived artifacts produced by Kestri?

A: Customers retain full ownership and control of all source documents and derived outputs generated within their environment.

Q: Does Kestri assume operational control of our systems or data?

A: No. Customers retain full operational control of their infrastructure, data, and access policies. Kestri operates as a service layer within customer-controlled environments and does not assume system ownership or administrative control unless explicitly agreed in writing.

Q: Is Kestri usage-based, subscription-based, or tied to database consumption?

A: Kestri pricing is independent of database consumption and infrastructure costs. Commercial terms are based on use of Kestri’s decoding and comparison services, not on data volume, compute resale, or license metrics. Commercial terms are defined contractually and are not tied to database metrics, cores, or Oracle licensing units.