Protocol R&D
Karvellan
Open Manufacturing Interoperability Protocol
Discover. Connect. Coordinate.
Karvellan is an emerging open protocol designed to help manufacturers, suppliers, and authorized autonomous AI agents discover production capabilities, communicate securely, and coordinate manufacturing across independent organizations.
Built around federated discovery, peer-to-peer communication, and cryptographic trust, Karvellan aims to make manufacturing capabilities accessible without requiring participants to depend on a centralized marketplace.
Proposed architecture
The architecture is designed to support the full path from finding a manufacturer to completing a transaction, across independent manufacturers:
Interoperable capability descriptions
Supplier discovery
Requests for quotation (RFQs)
Production availability
Transaction workflows
Status & direction
- Status
- Architecture and specification development.
- Direction
- Open specification, reference implementations, and eventual independent interoperability validation.