# dMetrics

> dMetrics is an AI company that builds Minsky, a natural-language-processing platform letting non-technical subject-matter experts create their own AI models to read, track, and analyze huge volumes of messy text - without writing code. Founded by two MIT machine-learning PhDs, the company started by decoding healthcare conversations across social media and now serves financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector customers, including a five-year, $99.5M U.S. Department of Defense production contract for open-source threat analysis.

- **Founded:** 2011
- **Headquarters:** Jackson, Wyoming, United States
- **Founders:** Paul Nemirovsky (Co-Founder & CEO), Ariadna Quattoni (Co-Founder & CTO)
- **Team size:** ~28 employees
- **Products:** Minsky, DecisionEngine (early product)
- **Notable:** Awarded a five-year, $99.5 million U.S. Department of Defense production contract for the Minsky platform., Selected from a pool of 65 offerors by the Defense Innovation Unit in March 2020 for AI-Based Knowledge Graphing., Founded by two MIT machine-learning PhDs (Paul Nemirovsky, PhD '06; Ariadna Quattoni, PhD '09).

## Products & services

- **Minsky** — An AI/NLP platform for high-precision text reading. It lets non-technical subject-matter experts create personalized machine-learning agents that continuously scan large public and proprietary text datasets, then identify and extract entities, actions, and flashpoints - all without writing code. Emphasizes accuracy, ease of use, AI explainability, and training transparency.
- **DecisionEngine (early product)** — The company's original platform, which analyzed billions of online conversations about drugs, medical devices, and healthcare products across blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and forums to detect real consumer decisions, needs, and outcomes from messy data.

## Achievements

- Awarded a five-year, $99.5 million U.S. Department of Defense production contract for the Minsky platform.
- Selected from a pool of 65 offerors by the Defense Innovation Unit in March 2020 for AI-Based Knowledge Graphing.
- Founded by two MIT machine-learning PhDs (Paul Nemirovsky, PhD '06; Ariadna Quattoni, PhD '09).
- Earned four NSF grants in its early years; underlying research cited in thousands of academic works.
- Platform in production use by some of the world's largest financial, pharmaceutical, and public-sector organizations.

## Latest updates

- **2024-09** — U.S. Department of Defense awarded dMetrics a five-year, $99.5M production contract to advance the Minsky platform for open-source adversarial-activity analysis.
- **2020-03** — Selected by the Defense Innovation Unit from 65 offerors for the AI-Based Knowledge Graphing project, building Minsky as a prototype.
- **2019** — DIU, the U.S. Army, and DTIC launched the project to develop a customized ML tool for analyzing web-based, open-source threat activity.

## Links

- Website: https://dmetrics.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dmetrics
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/dmetrics_

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