About Katara

Building AI Around People.

Katara Labs, Inc. is the company behind Katara, a platform for AI chat, developer tools, and enterprise agent workflows. Founded by Candice Jarrett and Chris Fusillo, we’re building a company around a simple goal: help people put AI to work.

We believe powerful technology should be understandable, accessible, and useful. That means giving people a straightforward way to use AI, developers the tools to build with it, and businesses control and oversight as they bring it into their work.

Our platform connects that vision to the infrastructure behind it. Katara Cortex, our inference router, connects AI demand with independent compute providers, giving the people supplying compute a way to participate and earn.

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The People Behind Katara

Meet the Founders

Katara brings together two founders with backgrounds in entrepreneurship, software, and creative work.

Co-Founder

Candice Jarrett

Candice Jarrett has been a business owner for over 20 years. She co-founded a blockchain development agency (metapep labs) and a decentralized AI inference fintech (Katara). Candice is also co-founder of XKOVA, which builds stablecoin infrastructure for financial institutions.

XKOVA built Wyopay, the first consumer front end for Wyoming’s Frontier Stable Token, and is a Circle Alliance Program member. Candice serves as program lead for CUUSD, the stablecoin XKOVA helped Alloya and its CUSO, Appex launch on Ethereum in 2026. She and her co-founder were invited to the SEC’s Crypto on the Road roundtable to discuss how policy can encourage American innovation.

Co-Founder

Chris Fusillo

Chris Fusillo is a self-taught solutions architect with more than 20 years as a business owner. He developed systems that powered tens of millions of dollars in monthly commerce for casino operators including Las Vegas Sands and Pinnacle Gaming, across the U.S. and internationally. Chris co-founded metapep labs and XKOVA, with work spanning blockchain infrastructure, digital payments and developer tools.

He built Policy Lens, a free XKOVA service powered by Katara that tracks stablecoin policy across federal regulators and Congress, and writes about AI agents and agentic payments. His guiding principle: see the benefits, not the blockchain.

Candice Jarrett

Chris Fusillo

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