Palladyne AI Battle Card: Defense Autonomy Sales Trigger

🚀 Battle Card: Palladyne AI Corp.

• Stephen M. Twitty, Board of Directors Member · 🔗 [LinkedIn](https://www.linkedin.com/company/palladyneaicorp)

• Adding a retired lieutenant general to the board signals an aggressive defense push. → Source

• Gaining trust in defense sector procurement cycles

• Differentiating embedded AI solutions in a competitive robotics market

• Primary: Advanced AI integration service → Accelerated defense deployments

• Expansion: Edge optimization & support → Enhanced autonomous system reliability

• HQ: Salt Lake City, UT

• Employees: ≈ 50

• Rev: ≈ $10 M

• Website: [palladyneai.com](https://www.palladyneai.com/)

🤼 Competitive Intel

• Boston Dynamics — Mobile Robotics & Autonomy
• Unique edge: World-leading agile robot hardware
• Evaluated by VP Engineering for platform performance

• Clearpath Robotics — Autonomous Mobile Robots
• Unique edge: Highly customizable navigation stacks
• Evaluated by Director of Operations for deployment speed

• Shield AI — Defense AI Autonomy
• Unique edge: Proven military-grade autonomy solutions
• Evaluated by CISO & Head of Defense Programs

• NVIDIA — Edge AI Computing
• Unique edge: Industry-leading GPU inference performance
• Evaluated by CTO for compute scalability

• Robotnik — Mobile Robot Integrations
• Unique edge: Flexible platform & sensor integration
• Evaluated by Systems Engineer for customization

✅ Do-Now Checklist

Next Step

🧠 Copy My Prompt for Personalized Cold Outreach

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✏️ YOUR COMPANY
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OUR_COMPANY   = ❑❑
OFFER_BRIEF   = ❑Embedded AI integration for defense robotics❑
PROOF_METRIC  = ❑30% faster deployments❑
CTA_STYLE     = ❑quick_call❑
TONE          = ❑friendly❑

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📌 TARGET COMPANY
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NAME        = Stephen
COMPANY     = Palladyne AI Corp.
DEPT        = Engineering
SIZE        = ≈ 5
BOTTLENECK  = procurement trust barriers
EVENT       = ex-general joins board
DETAIL      = Retired Lt. Gen. Stephen M. Twitty appointment
PAIN        = struggling to fast-track defense deployments
SRC         = http://cts.businesswire.com/ct/CT?id=ftfLlWd9aZbF2NXfwppam3Bd664=&newsLang=en&newsId=20250923405323&div=41152219
SIM_CO      = Shield AI
WIN_METRIC  = 30% faster deployment
NEXT_SIZE   = ≈ 10
EMP_EST     = ≈ 50
REV_EST     = ≈ $10M

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TASK FOR CHATGPT
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Role: “NewsletterForLeads SDR-Assist”.

Validate any ≈ guesses via SRC.

EMAIL  (keep breaks):
Subject: ≈ 5-person Engineering

Stephen—noticed your Engineering team is ≈ 5.

That’s when procurement trust barriers slows growth.

We helped Shield AI fix this with Embedded AI integration for defense robotics.

Result: 30% faster deployment.  
Quick call?

PS—next bottleneck hits ≈ 10.

DM ≤45 words, TONE:
Saw your post about Retired Lt. Gen. Stephen M. Twitty appointment — struggling to fast-track defense deployments.  
Embedded AI integration for defense robotics. 30% faster deployments.  
Quick chat?