Our story

From industrial sensors
to intelligent systems.

Keleno didn't start as an AI company. We started in IoT — connecting machinery and industrial processes to software that had to be right, in real time, with no room for a graceful failure. That discipline is still the foundation.

10+years engineering
100M+data points ingested
2geographies, one team

Who we are

Engineering excellence, held to a business outcome.

Keleno is an AI-first engineering company that turns ideas into intelligent digital products. We combine deep technical expertise with a strong understanding of business to build solutions that accelerate growth, improve efficiency, and create lasting competitive advantage.

Our promise is simple: delivering measurable outcomes. Every decision we make is guided by the impact it creates for your business — solving the right problems, eliminating unnecessary complexity, and producing results you can measure.

Select clients only
We work with a select group of clients, so every engagement gets full senior-level attention, agility, and depth.
AI-led, platform-driven engineering
A digital engineering and enterprise modernization partner — deep technical expertise paired with real industry experience.
An extension of your team
We take ownership from strategy through execution — not just implementation.

By the numbers

What that discipline produces

0%

Faster implementations

0%

Lower total cost of ownership

0%

Faster launch of new capabilities

0%

Improvement in operational efficiency

0%

Reduction in maintenance effort

How we got here

Over a decade, three chapters.

Chapter one · IoT & IIoT

Getting the real world to report in, reliably.

We spent our early years in the unglamorous end of technology: getting sensors, gateways, and industrial equipment to report data reliably, and getting that data to systems that could act on it. It's a domain with almost no tolerance for "mostly working" — a missed reading or a delayed signal has real operational consequences.

Chapter two · Systems integration

Carrying that discipline into full product engineering.

That experience shaped how we think about software generally: systems have to survive contact with the real world, not just a demo environment. As our clients' needs expanded into broader IT consulting, systems integration, and full product engineering, we carried that same standard with us.

Chapter three · AI & agentic engineering

Applying the same rigor to RAG and autonomous agents.

Retrieval-augmented generation and autonomous agents are, underneath, just another category of system that has to run reliably inside a business that doesn't stop for you. We approach them with the same rigor we've always applied — and help clients stay ahead with modern, AI-powered solutions that are secure, scalable, and built for the future.

Leadership

The team behind Keleno

Arun Nair

Arun Nair

Ex-Head, Founder Machine Pulse, Intrapreneur — NIT Hamirpur

  • SolarPulse / FactoryPulse / WindPulse / Erixis — three unique products and platforms
  • Scaled the team to 50 people in a period of 3 years
  • Head and founder of Machinepulse
  • More than 100 million data points ingested across IoT platforms

AwardsGanter, Silicon Valley, Analytics India, GTM Research — fastest-growing PV monitoring vendor in the Indian subcontinent, Mahindra Innovation Award, Best Employee (consecutive) at Moser Baer India

SkillsInnovation and product management, rapid team scale-up, hands-on industrial internet / robotics / PLC, project monitoring and task allotment, competitor technology analysis, team building and management, POC delivery on emerging technologies

PreviouslyMachinepulse, Mahindra, Güdel, Moser Baer, Samtel

Binu Pankajakshan

Binu Pankajakshan

Serial Entrepreneur — Former MD & CEO, Nibodha — IIM & Calicut University

  • Experience bootstrapping a start-up from the ground up
  • Developed scalable products for the hospitality industry
  • Customer acquisition and management, cash flow management
  • Founder and leader of the IoT Kochi meetup group
  • Set up delivery process and org process; managed statutory compliance and accounting
  • Hands-on across sales, finance, HR, cash flow, customer interactions, and marketing

AwardsKovai IoT Hackathon, Mashape Hackathon

SkillsManaging company financials, operations, legal and liaisoning, fund raising, cash flow analysis, certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

PreviouslyIntuit, Xerox, Mindtree, UST Global

Where we work

Two geographies, one delivery standard

India — Delivery HQ

Kochi, Kerala

Our core engineering teams — the people writing, reviewing, and operating the systems we build — are based here.

Centre A, 7th Floor, Alapatt Heritage Building
M.G. Road, Kochi, Kerala 682035
United States — Client Operations

West Lafayette, IN

Client-facing engagement and delivery leadership operate in the US, keeping communication close to the timezone our clients work in.

Keleno LLC
157 Millingden Trail, West Lafayette, IN 47906

Still solving for "no room for a graceful failure."

Ask us anything — team structure, engagement models, or how a project typically starts.