Shelby

Shelby is a productivity tool. S3-compatible object storage for AI, agents and distributed compute, with one data address, controlled placement and a cryptographic record created at upload. Currently onboarding select workloads in private beta.

Shelby is an S3-compatible object storage platform aimed at AI workloads that run across changing compute environments. The pitch is straightforward: instead of rebuilding or re-copying your data layer every time you add a training cluster, a robotics pipeline or a new model serving environment, you keep one data address and point different compute at it. Because the interface follows the S3 standard, existing tools and SDKs keep working without a rewrite. The company positions this against the usual practice of standing up a fresh bucket or replica for each new environment. The feature set is organised around three ideas. First, one address with global access: workloads stay attached to the same data, and you control which approved locations are allowed to hold it. Second, fewer copies: erasure-coded placement is offered as a way to recover data without keeping a complete second copy, and the platform claims to cut down on sync jobs, duplicated permissions and version reconciliation. Third, a cryptographic record created at write, which is meant to prove who uploaded an object, show which approved locations hold it, and make tampering detectable rather than relying on logs written after the fact. The tool is clearly built for engineering teams rather than casual users. Named use cases include agentic systems that need persistent data across sessions and models, robotics and physical AI pipelines that collect, process and train in different places, a shared origin for model weights and checkpoints, and distributed training that spans shifting hardware. Movement between Shelby locations carries no per-gigabyte Shelby charge, while external egress to the public internet is quoted alongside the capacity rate. Capacity is sized to a workload profile rather than sold as a fixed tier. Shelby is a managed offering that is onboarding select workloads during its private beta, so access currently runs through a conversation with the team rather than self-serve signup. It is engineered by people from Jump Trading Group's high-frequency systems and Aptos' infrastructure work. The closest alternatives are conventional cloud object stores and specialist AI data platforms; Shelby's differentiator is the combination of a familiar S3 surface with placement control and write-time cryptographic evidence.