About ntail
Built by the people who've run Kafka the hard way
ntail is a serverless Kafka product released in 2026 by Factual Tech AB, built by a team that has spent 15+ years building, operating and scaling Kafka for other people's businesses. We built ntail to be the service we always wished we could just buy.
Why we built ntail
15+ years on Kafka, not just around it
Our founders have carried Kafka clusters through capacity planning, broker upgrades, on-call pages and every kind of rebalance headache, across finance, ad tech and high-volume event pipelines. We know exactly which parts of running Kafka are miserable.
A service we'd actually choose
Every ntail decision — the pricing model, the SLA, what's automated versus configurable — was made by people who've been the customer of a managed Kafka service before, and knew what they wanted fixed.
Built in Sweden, for the long run
ntail is built and operated by Factual Tech AB, a Swedish company. We're a European company running our own European infrastructure, built to be a long-term partner for teams that depend on their streaming platform every day.
The company, in short
ntail is a product of Factual Tech AB, founded in 2022 and registered in Sweden. Our team's expertise is in maintaining infrastructure and operating Kafka at scale — see security & sovereignty for what that means for your data, and our imprint for full registration details.
We're a small, deliberately focused team: no venture-scale headcount, no layers between you and the people who built the platform. If you talk to us, you're talking to someone who understands your Kafka workload.
Want to talk to the team?
Whether it's a technical question, a bill comparison or a security questionnaire — you'll hear back from someone who's actually run Kafka in production.