kehitteillä

Kehitteillä is a Finnish word meaning "in development" or "being developed." It describes something that is not yet finished or publicly released but is under ongoing work. The term is commonly used for projects, products, software, plans, or ideas that are in the process of creation. It can be used predicatively as in Projekti on kehitteillä, or attributively in phrases like kehitteillä oleva projekti or kehitteillä oleva suunnitelma. The nuance is that development continues and there is no guarantee of completion, with possible changes, delays or revisions.

In practice, kehitteillä appears in business, technology, journalism and public discourse to signal forward-looking work without promising a final form. It is related to other Finnish expressions such as kehitys (development), kehitteillä oleva (being developed), and valmisteilla (in preparation), though the exact shade of meaning differs: kehitteillä emphasizes ongoing development rather than final readiness. Etymologically, it comes from the verb kehittää "to develop," with the suffix -llä indicating a state or condition. The word thus denotes a process rather than a finished product.