Excelity Labs · applied-AI lab · defense & intelligence

Applied AI for the warfighter's hardest problems.

Most defense AI stalls between a promising demo and a tool an operator can actually use. Excelity Labs closes that gap — mission experts who put AI to work on the warfighter's and the analyst's hardest problems, and build tools that are ready for the field: hardened, operational-grade, and proven in pilot. Crosscut is the first project out of the lab. More are on the bench.

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The hard part isn't the model. It's the mission — knowing the operator's world well enough to build something that holds up in it.

› We're mission people first: we embed with warfighters and analysts and learn the problem cold, then find where AI earns its place — not where it demos well.

› We build for the real environment from the first line: the actual systems, the controlled and disconnected networks, the security posture the work demands.

› And we build it field-ready — operational-grade and hardened, then proven in pilot with the operators who'll use it. Crosscut was the first. It won't be the last.

01 The portfolio

On the bench.

A small set of tools, each built to take on a hard problem for the operator or the analyst. Some are in pilot with users; some are still in the shop.

CROSSCUTIn pilot

Founding project · cross-application workflow

Carries an analyst's work across the applications they already use.

An expert describes a workflow in plain language; Crosscut drives the real applications to run it — reading the screen, doing the work, and pausing for a person at every decision. No integration project, no rip-and-replace.

crosscut.excelitylabs.ai ↗

GANGPLANKIn incubation

Second project · federated mission data

Puts one question to every system that holds part of the answer.

Mission data sits in ArcGIS layers, REST and GraphQL services, STAC catalogs and partner feeds — each with its own authentication, query language and resident expert. Gangplank reaches them where they already run, translates a plain-language question into the right call to each, and normalizes what comes back. No ingest, no copies.

gangplank.excelitylabs.ai ↗

What's nextOpen bench

A new tool enters the lab when there's a hard problem worth solving for the warfighter or the analyst — and a team to solve it. If that's a problem you're living with, or a thing you want to build, tell us.

02 How the lab works

Principles we build on.

The same convictions run through everything that leaves this bench.

Mission first, then the model

We embed with warfighters and analysts and learn the problem cold before we bring AI to it. The domain expertise is the hard part; the model is table stakes.

Built for the field, not the demo

We build operational-grade tools that hold up in the conditions operators actually work in — not a slide, and not a demo that only runs on a stage.

Hardened for the real environment

Designed from the first line for defense and intelligence: CAC/PKI, controlled and disconnected networks, and data that stays where it must.

A human stays in command

AI does the work; the operator makes the call. Accountability and human judgment are built in from the start, not bolted on.

Bring us a hard problem.

Whether you're a program office with a mission problem AI should be taking on, or a partner or prime looking for who to build with — let's talk.

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