Primer

Primer is an AI-native intelligence company founded in 2015 by Sean Gourley and headquartered in San Francisco. Its platform reads unstructured text at machine speed and turns document overload into structured, traceable insight for national-security customers.

Primer offers two main products. Primer Delta is a self-curating knowledge base that analyzes millions of documents in seconds, deployable on-premises or in the cloud. The Primer Enterprise Platform fuses fragmented reports, proprietary data, and open-source intelligence into structured, traceable insight for mission planning, predictive logistics, and faster intelligence cycles.

The company has raised roughly 237 million dollars across six rounds and has worked with US Special Operations Command, the Air Force, and the Army since 2020. Its emphasis on traceability — linking machine-generated conclusions back to source documents — is its central mitigation for the hallucination and provenance risks of applying large language models to intelligence work.