Team

Who runs Kirke Labs?

Kirke Labs is led by two engineers with complementary backgrounds in systems architecture, security, and on-chain infrastructure. The team operates out of Europe under Kirke Labs S.R.L.

Steve Kirton

Founder & CEO

Steve Kirton founded Kirke Labs to build high-assurance infrastructure for agentic commerce on Algorand. A hands-on systems engineer, he authored The Prove-It Protocol and ships the firm’s open-source agent-readiness tooling, testing every claim adversarially before trusting it.

Steve on LinkedIn

Soleman El Gelawi

CTO

Soleman El Gelawi is CTO of Kirke Labs, leading the engineering of its self-executing, audit-ready systems on Algorand and turning experimental on-chain technology into reliable, institutional-grade infrastructure.

Soleman on LinkedInSoleman on GitHub

Where can I see the team’s work?

Kirke Labs’ open-source work is published under the KirkeLabs GitHub organisation, including agent-readiness-scan and ai-legibility-scan. Active deployments include Casalotto and The Marketing Machine.