SHELLTECH is a software firm of a particular sort. We build artificial intelligence for organizations that prefer their advantages quietly. Off the deck. Off the record. On the books, however, very much in writing.
Most AI companies want you to know their name. We would prefer your competitors not know ours.
We design and ship custom intelligence — models, agents, infrastructure, evaluations — for firms whose advantage depends on operating below the surface of the press release.
Hedge funds. Law firms. Defense primes. Family offices. The occasional studio. The occasional government. You know who you are.
The best leverage is the one nobody can see you using. — Internal memo, undated
Fine-tunes, distillations, and from-scratch architectures trained on your proprietary data. Hosted in your tenancy. Owned outright. Nothing leaves the building.
Long-running, tool-using agents that read the documents, write the emails, file the tickets, and brief you on what they decided. Audit logs included, because you should know what was done in your name.
Retrieval systems built for the kind of corpora you can't put in a chatbot — contracts, filings, dossiers, decade-old PDFs scanned at angles. We read them so you don't have to.
Training infrastructure, data pipelines, model gateways, observability. The unglamorous half that determines whether the glamorous half ever ships. We have shipped a great deal of it.
Adversarial evaluations, jailbreak audits, prompt-injection defense, model behavior reviews. We do not publish the findings. We deliver them, in writing, only to you.
Strategy retainers for executives and boards quietly figuring out what AI actually means for their business. Confidential, technical, and free of the usual evangelism.
The full client list is not for the website. The following has been cleared for selective disclosure.