ketteQ Named a 2026 Pacesetter Among Atlanta's Fastest-Growing Private Companies

ketteQ has been named to the Atlanta Business Chronicle's 2026 Pacesetter Awards, landing at No. 35 on the list of Atlanta's fastest-growing privately held companies. The Pacesetter Awards recognize businesses that have posted significant fiscal growth over the past two years, spotlighting the region's most dynamic and innovative companies.

The timing is notable. ketteQ's growth curve has tracked closely with the adoption of Quintus™, the company's Free-Range AI™ platform for supply chain orchestration, as more organizations move planning and execution work off legacy tools and onto a system built to reason over open-ended questions rather than follow a fixed script.

"Being named a Pacesetter reflects the growth we're seeing as more companies make the strategic decision to move their supply chain operations from legacy supply chain planning systems to Quintus™, our Free-Range AI™ platform," said Mike Landry, CEO of ketteQ.

"The level of interest and engagement we're seeing in the market right now is driving significant expansion across our go-to-market motion, and this recognition is a reflection of that momentum. I'm grateful to our customers and proud of the team that got us here."

A Different Kind of AI for Supply Chain

The recognition arrives as ketteQ builds on the reception of Quintus™, which is the only Free-Range AI™ built for the supply chain: an intelligence that reasons about any question, executes any action, and addresses any use case, unscripted and unconstrained, all within a fully governed, auditable decision framework.

Under the hood, Quintus™ runs on PolymatiQ™, ketteQ's patent-pending agentic solver technology. That engine lets Quintus™ orchestrate Planning Solutions and Execution Solutions on top of whatever ERP or supply chain planning platform a customer already has in place, deploying in four to eight weeks with no rip-and-replace required.

That last point matters more than it might seem. A lot of supply chain transformation projects stall because they demand tearing out existing systems first. ketteQ can layer intelligence onto what customers already run, rather than betting the operation on a full replacement.

Widening Access to Supply Chain Intelligence

Historically, supply chain systems have been the domain of the supply chain team. If sales, finance, or any other function had a question that touched the plan, the request went to a supply chain analyst, who ran the query and delivered an answer days or weeks later.

Quintus™ breaks that boundary. Instead of routing a question through an analyst and waiting on a queue, any function can ask Quintus™ directly and get an answer grounded in the live plan. A sales rep can ask whether committed inventory and lead times actually support the delivery date a customer wants. A finance lead can ask what expediting a shipment would do to landed cost and working capital. The answer comes back in seconds, not days.

Multiply that across every function that used to wait in line for a supply chain answer, and the effect isn't just convenience. It's clock speed. Decisions that used to sit in a queue for days now get made in the moment, and that shift, more than the award itself, is the real story behind ketteQ's growth.

Built Before the AI for Supply Chain Category Had a Name

ketteQ was founded in 2018, which puts its origin story ahead of the current wave of enthusiasm around agentic AI. The company has spent that time building AI-native supply chain planning and orchestration in production, effectively anticipating a shift the rest of the industry is only now catching up to.

This Pacesetter honor is ketteQ's second growth recognition of the year. In August, the company also landed on the 2026 Inc. 5000 list of America's fastest-growing private companies.

Learn more about Quintus at ketteQ.com/quintus and read the press release.