# Primer.ai

> Primer.ai builds mission-ready AI for defense, intelligence, and national security teams. Its platform turns oceans of unstructured text - news, documents, intercepts, social posts - into traceable, decision-ready intelligence, deployable in air-gapped and cloud environments.

- **Founded:** 2015
- **Headquarters:** San Francisco, California, United States
- **Founders:** Sean Gourley (Founder, former CEO (2015-2023))
- **Team size:** ~140
- **Products:** Primer Enterprise, Primer Command, Primer Delta, Primer API
- **Notable:** Tools used by U.S. intelligence agencies to detect hidden threats (Washington Times, 2024)., Closed $69M Series D in June 2023, bringing total raised to roughly $237M., Achieved SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and DFARS compliance for federal deployments.

## Products & services

- **Primer Enterprise** — Secure AI platform for analyzing unstructured proprietary and open-source data, with claim-level source traceability.
- **Primer Command** — Real-time monitoring of narratives, news, and social media to detect emerging threats and shifting information environments.
- **Primer Delta** — Natural-language document sorting and analysis - extracts entities, locations, and topics across millions of documents in seconds.
- **Primer API** — Embeds Primer's search, extraction, and summarization capabilities directly into existing mission systems.

## Achievements

- Tools used by U.S. intelligence agencies to detect hidden threats (Washington Times, 2024).
- Closed $69M Series D in June 2023, bringing total raised to roughly $237M.
- Achieved SOC 2, ISO 27001, NIST, and DFARS compliance for federal deployments.
- Spun up Primer Federal subsidiary to serve U.S. government customers directly.

## Latest updates

- **2023-06** — Announced $69M funding round to accelerate AI-enabled information advantage.
- **2023-09** — Sean Moriarty named CEO; founder Sean Gourley steps back from day-to-day.
- **2024-02** — Washington Times reports Primer's tools are in active use across U.S. intelligence community.
- **2024** — Expanded leadership bench with senior hires across product, federal, and engineering.

## Links

- Website: https://primer.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/primer-ai
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/primer_ai
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@PrimerAI

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Last updated: 2026-05-23