Claude Can Now Ask KAELUM. And KAELUM Answers.
KAELUM's Ai-governed commerce currency can now be queried from inside Claude, under the permissions each user grants.
Claude Can Now Ask KAELUM. And KAELUM Answers.
The first Agentic Ai-governed commerce currency can now be queried from inside Claude.
By Greggar Deterville, Founder and CEO, KAELUM Technologies Ltd | 1 May 2026
For years, the promise of programmable money has been that software could make money smarter: safer to use, easier to audit, and fairer to the people who hold it. KAELUM takes its own route to that promise. It puts an accountable operator in charge and lets Ai do the governing work, with a person holding the final say.
Now that governance can be seen and questioned from inside Claude.
What We Built
KAELUM is a digital commerce currency platform for customers, creators and merchants. Its currency, KAE, is fixed at £0.20 per unit. It does not rise or fall in value. Customers receive a discount of 6% or more on goods when they spend KAE with participating merchants. A 4.5% platform fee applies.
Every transaction is governed by K.A.T.E., the KAELUM Audivo Triovus Engine, powered exclusively by Claude from Anthropic.
The KAELUM connector, built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), lets a person's own Claude assistant work with their KAELUM account under the permissions they grant. Through it, Claude can:
- Look up the KAE price: £0.20, fixed
- Check balances and transactions on the user's KAELUM account
- Find participating merchants to spend with
- Create and list Social Paylinks for creators and merchants
- Answer questions from K.A.T.E.'s knowledge base
- Raise an agent payment request that the account holder must approve before any money moves
Why It Matters
Most payment systems cannot explain themselves. You see the charge, not the reasoning. KAELUM is designed the other way round. Every decision K.A.T.E. makes is recorded and auditable, sensitive actions pass through human approval gates, and when a check is unavailable the money waits for a person.
So when you ask Claude about your KAELUM account, you are not asking a black box. You are asking a system built to show its work.
That distinction matters for audit, for trust, and for the basic question of whether the system governing your money can explain itself.
Built, and in Pre-Launch Testing
KAELUM is built and in pre-launch testing. KAELUM is pre-launch and is working towards the appropriate regulatory permissions before it takes any customer funds.
Visa and Mastercard accounted for roughly 61% of euro area card payments in 2022 (ECB), and they take their fee whatever the outcome for the merchant. KAELUM is designed to give customers a reason to pay differently and merchants a reason to accept it.
Join the KAELUM waiting list at kaelum.app/Waitlist to be ready from launch.
K.A.T.E. governs the rails. You govern the spend.
Crypto is powered by Blockchain. KAELUM is powered by Ai.
KAELUM Technologies Ltd is registered in England and Wales (Company No. 16681154). KAE is a digital commerce currency and is not a cryptocurrency, security or investment instrument. This article is for informational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Contact: info@kaelumtechnologies.com | kaelum.app