KANAP is now Kadratis

Why a new name

A governance tool is expected to be serious and rigorous; yet in French, KANAP is heard first as « canap’ », short for sofa. The association may raise a smile, but it can also work against you.

We also needed a name we could protect. “Kanap” is already in use, in furniture and elsewhere. Kadratis is an invented name, unique to the product, and filed as a trademark. For open source software, the trademark does not restrict the code: it simply tells you which distribution is the official one.

The trademark policy says what anyone may do with it, which is almost everything: talk about it, integrate it, host it, sell services around it…

What changes for you

For everyone: the AI assistant is now called Kad. It is the same agent, with its settings and your conversations.

On Kadratis Cloud (the new name of the hosted offer):

• your workspace now answers at <your-workspace>.kadratis.com. The old kanap.net address keeps working, as do links already sent and MCP connections;
• on your first visit to the new address, you sign in once. Your browser does not always offer the password saved for the old address on its own: just type it in. With Microsoft sign-in, one click is enough, as before;
• the application’s emails carry the new name and now come from [email protected].

If you host Kadratis yourself, the update works as usual, with no extra step. From version 26.11.4 on, the images are called kadratis-* instead of kanap-*; the version’s compose.onprem.yml already names them, and the update procedure pulls them. The KANAP_* variables, the database roles and the MCP tokens keep their names. Earlier versions remain published under their old names.

The website and the documentation move to kadratis.com and doc.kadratis.com. The old addresses redirect page by page.

What does not change

• The software: same features, same data, same roadmap.
• The license: AGPL v3; the code stays public, and self-hosting stays free, with no feature held back.
• The publisher: KANAP, a company based in France. Your contracts, invoices and support remain in its name.
• The hosting: Kadratis Cloud runs on the same dedicated servers at Hetzner, in Germany.
• The GitHub repository: the same repository; it will be renamed in the coming weeks, and GitHub will redirect the old address.

Questions about this change: write to [email protected].