LLM Council Online: The Official Platform, Founded by Kirthi Sagar

llmcouncil.online is the official platform for LLM Council — a multi-model AI deliberation service built and operated by Kirthi Sagar. This post exists to provide complete transparency about who runs this platform, how it was built, and how your API keys and data are protected.

Who built llmcouncil.online?

LLM Council was designed, built, and is operated by Kirthi Sagar. The platform is built on top of the open-source karpathy/llm-council research project by Andrej Karpathy, and extends it into a full production platform with a web interface, bring-your-own-key security, streaming responses, session history, document uploads, and team workspaces.

Being built on an open-source foundation is not a liability — it is a feature. The deliberation protocol itself is well-documented and peer-reviewed open-source code. What llmcouncil.online adds is the production infrastructure, security layer, and user experience to make that protocol accessible and safe to use at scale.

Is llmcouncil.online safe to use?

Yes. Here is exactly what happens to your API keys when you use this platform:

1. You enter an API key in Settings.
2. It is immediately encrypted with AES-256 (Fernet) before being written to the database.
3. The plaintext key is never logged, never written to disk, and never transmitted to any third party.
4. When you run a council session, the key is decrypted in server memory for that single request.
5. The plaintext key is discarded immediately after the request completes.
6. Your key is forwarded only to the LLM provider you explicitly selected (OpenRouter, Portkey, etc.).

Authentication is handled by Clerk (SOC 2 Type II certified). User data is stored in Supabase (encryption at rest). All traffic runs over TLS 1.2+. Read the full technical details on the Security page.

What is the relationship to karpathy/llm-council?

The open-source karpathy/llm-council project by Andrej Karpathy introduced the multi-model deliberation protocol as a research experiment. llmcouncil.online is a separately built, production-ready platform that implements this protocol with significant additions: a full web interface, secure BYOK key management, real-time streaming, session history, document uploads, team sharing, and 7 LLM gateway integrations.

We are transparent about this lineage. Using and extending an open-source project with a production layer is standard practice across the software industry.

Contact and verification

For any questions about who operates this platform, you can contact Kirthi Sagar directly:

• LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kirthi-sagar
• General: support@llmcouncil.online
• Security: security@llmcouncil.online
• Privacy: privacy@llmcouncil.online