Case Study: Shield AI accelerates autonomous systems development with Foxglove

How Shield AI transformed mission-critical development with Foxglove

The customer, Shield AI, faced challenges in developing and iterating on its AI-powered autonomy platform for defense applications. Legacy tools slowed development and created a lack of trust, as operators could not understand the decision-making of autonomous systems in high-stakes environments. Shield AI turned to the vendor, Foxglove, to gain real-time insight.

Foxglove was embedded directly into Shield AI's Hivemind Forge development environment, providing a modern visualization platform. The solution gave teams a shared, real-time view to debug and validate autonomous behavior, accelerating development cycles. The impact was significant: what once took weeks of iteration was reduced to days, enabling customers to reach first autonomous flights in weeks instead of years. Every Hivemind deployment now ships with Foxglove, building greater trust and understanding in the systems.

Shield AI

Stefan Jorgensen

Senior Staff Engineer