KitelyTech is a Detroit-based custom software, AI, and cloud consultancy, founded in 2009. What we do today spans custom application development, AI and agentic systems, data platforms, and cloud infrastructure, delivered through Katalyst, our delivery methodology, in whichever of its three forms fits what a client needs.
KitelyTech's foundation is raw custom software and mobile development: building applications from the ground up, across many frameworks and platforms, and learning firsthand how those pieces connect to each other in production.
That foundation is still what defines how KitelyTech works today. A project that spans a mobile app, a legacy system already in place, a cloud platform underneath, and an AI layer on top doesn't require a client to coordinate separate vendors for each piece; it's one team that already understands how every layer works, because building those layers from scratch is where the company started.
Dating a planetary surface means counting the craters on it. On Mars that meant researchers reviewing orbital imagery by hand, one region at a time, on a planet with a surface area the size of every continent on Earth combined.
Automated image analysis and AI models that detect craters in orbital imagery and characterize them for surface age classification. The models handle the conditions that break naive detection, including overlapping craters, erosion, and varied lighting across image sets, so classification holds up across regions rather than on curated samples.
Ocean floor data platform and 3D mapping
The ocean floor is mapped in fragments, by instruments that produce enormous, inconsistent datasets. The organization had the data and no way to organize, analyze, or show it.
Integration of 3D mapping with a customer dashboard and data visualization tools, turning raw survey data into interactive maps of the ocean floor and setting up the platform to grow into a full data-as-a-service model.
AR and MR vehicle maintenance training
Training service members to replace wheels on military vehicles took real vehicles, real parts, and an instructor at the vehicle. Every session cost equipment time, and spatial procedures learned from a binder do not transfer to the field.
An augmented and mixed reality application that teaches military vehicle wheel replacement as a spatial procedure. Trainees work through each step on a full-scale virtual build, getting the spatial knowledge of the task before touching a vehicle.
The country's first virtual reality park
The client wanted to launch the first VR park in their country. Nothing about a location-based VR experience is off the shelf: the content, the physical space, and the hardware have to be designed as one thing.
A fully immersive VR experience built in Unreal Engine, blending real physical settings with digital constructs so the environment players walk through matches the one they see.
Machine learning for blood donor discovery
Social media is saturated with appeals from people, healthcare facilities, and blood centers looking for blood donors, and most of those posts go unnoticed. The need and the supply pass each other in the feed.
A web application with a custom machine learning model that monitors social posts and extracts what matters from them: the blood center's location, the units required, the blood type, and the contact information to act on it. Requests that used to disappear into the scroll become structured, actionable records.
Motor output optimization platform
A leading maker of electronic speed controllers, battery eliminator circuits, and motors for land, air, and sea RC vehicles was losing engineering time to hardware service issues, and the worst of them was bricking: a failed configuration could turn a customer's motor into a paperweight.
One platform to connect and configure the full product line, running on iOS, Android, macOS, and PC, built to eliminate bricking and the service costs behind it. Consistency became a property of the platform, and the engineering team got its time back for new products.
Digital workplace for a brand transformation
A major agricultural producer needed its brand transformation to move faster than its org chart, including a frontline workforce that never sits at a desk.
A digital workplace platform that consolidates business operations inside Microsoft Teams as a single hub, with citizen development and automation carrying routine work, and frontline workers included through the tools they already carry.
Social intake and support operations on Microsoft Teams
Sales inquiries and support requests arrived through the channels clients actually use, including Viber and Telegram, and were handled ad hoc from there.
A chatbot receives support requests on Viber and Telegram, and a Microsoft Teams application with CRM integration manages them from intake to resolution, so social channels feed a managed pipeline instead of someone's phone.
The same depth that once meant building an application end-to-end now extends to AI: private LLM deployments, data containerization, and compliance-grade governance for organizations that need more than a standard enterprise AI agreement can guarantee. KitelyTech isn't tied to a single vendor or proprietary platform; the right technology gets selected and architected for what a client is trying to do, not decided in advance.
KitelyTech has spent seventeen years building software from the ground up. That experience shows up as precision: we say exactly what a platform or framework can do, and just as plainly what it can't. Pricing works the same way, determined by what the work actually requires rather than quoted first and corrected later once the real scope shows up.
