Kelly

Kelly Engineering partners with private-equity firms to bring AI into their portfolio companies. We embed directly into operations — finance, IT, supply chain — building custom AI infrastructure to help navigate the largest technological shift in a generation.

Engagements run four to eight weeks. No slide decks. No hidden fees. Just working AI software that the company owns.

Our team has shipped mission-critical infrastructure at Palantir and General Dynamics, put satellites into orbit, run robotics divisions at frontier labs, traded at top quantitative funds, and pushed ML research at MIT.

We’re named after Kelly Johnson, who ran Lockheed’s Skunk Works and built the SR-71 Blackbird with a small team of engineers in a rented circus tent. Kelly’s 14 Rules — small teams, vicious focus, and his motto to be quick, be quiet, be on time — underpin how we work.

As Mr Johnson liked to say: we keep it simple, stupid.