# Cognizer Inc

> Cognizer is a Pleasanton, California enterprise AI company that turns messy contract documents into structured, queryable intelligence. Its patented Genius technology pairs natural language AI with a knowledge graph so legal, sales, procurement, finance and compliance teams can discover, classify and analyze contracts at scale - detecting clauses, mapping parent/child document families and answering plain-language questions across millions of documents.

- **Founded:** 2018
- **Headquarters:** Pleasanton, California, United States
- **Founders:** Jack Porter (Founder & Chief Technology Officer), Soundararajan Velu (Co-Founder)
- **Team size:** ~55 employees
- **Products:** Genius Application, Cortex Platform, Discovery Agents, Contract Graph, Model CoPilot
- **Notable:** Named among CIOReview's Top 10 Knowledge Management Solution companies (2019)., Developed patented Genius technology combining natural language AI with graph database structures., Launched its Contract Intelligence Platform in 2022 after two years of R&D.

## Products & services

- **Genius Application** — A web-based conversational interface that lets legal, sales, procurement, HR, finance and compliance teams query contract metadata and relationships in plain language across any contract type. Built on Cognizer's patented natural-language-plus-knowledge-graph technology.
- **Cortex Platform** — Cloud infrastructure that converts contract documents into structured data, processing millions of documents monthly inside dedicated, secure tenancies with semantic search and hundreds of metadata labels.
- **Discovery Agents** — AI agents that locate contract documents across systems, storage and email without moving files, then deduplicate, split multi-page PDFs, categorize against 250+ standard contract types and translate from 30 languages.
- **Contract Graph** — A graph database that automatically detects parent/child document family linkages, tracks how contractual relationships evolve and supports Graph RAG applications for procurement, sales and compliance.
- **Model CoPilot** — A tool that lets users without machine-learning expertise build custom metadata-extraction models from their own playbooks, accessible via REST API or inside Cortex.

## Achievements

- Named among CIOReview's Top 10 Knowledge Management Solution companies (2019).
- Developed patented Genius technology combining natural language AI with graph database structures.
- Launched its Contract Intelligence Platform in 2022 after two years of R&D.
- Executive team with a collective track record of 13 IPOs and 11 acquisitions.
- Platform capable of processing millions of contract documents per month per tenant.

## Latest updates

- **2022-02** — Closed a $6.58M seed round with backing from StartupNV and GigFounders.
- **2022** — Launched its Contract Intelligence Platform to market.
- **2025** — Refreshed product suite and branding, expanding Cortex, Discovery Agents, Contract Graph and Model CoPilot offerings.

## Links

- Website: https://cognizer.ai
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/cognizer
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/cognizerai
- Facebook: https://facebook.com/cognizerai

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