What Onebrief does

Onebrief is a venture-backed defense technology company founded in 2019 and headquartered in Honolulu, Hawaii, that builds an AI-powered Command Operating System for military staff workflows. The platform replaces fragmented, manual, slide- and document-based planning processes with a unified, live-synchronized workspace built on a proprietary "Cards and Lists" data model, in which any change to a Card propagates instantly across every product, presentation, map, order, and plan. The platform is deployed across all major U.S. military networks (NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, and coalition), is engineered for DDIL (Denied, Disrupted, Intermittent, or Limited) environments, and integrates bidirectionally with authoritative mission data sources such as Maven Smart System and Advana. As of January 2026, Onebrief reported integration across most U.S. combatant commands, four of seven geographic combatant commands, and all major service branches (Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, Space Force, Special Operations, and National Guard), and stated use in 3 of the 4 largest operational plans globally.

The product surface consists of the Onebrief Platform (the core Command Operating System), AI Assist (a doctrine-aware AI assistant built on Anthropic Claude 3.7 that drafts, summarizes, and queries plans, orders, briefs, and attached documents in a strictly read-only, OPSEC-compliant mode), and — following the January 2026 acquisition of Battle Road Digital — wargaming, modeling, and simulation capabilities backed by a three-year, $40M U.S. Army contract. The platform is sold through a direct enterprise field-sales motion targeting the U.S. Department of Defense and allied militaries, with a quote-based subscription/license model and free trial. Onboarding is field-driven, segmented by service branch and rank/pay grade, and supported by dedicated account management and live training. Revenue is generated through paid subscription licenses for military organizations, professional services and embedded support, and government/defense contracting, with stated 100x productivity targets within three years via continued AI investment.

Name

Onebrief

Legal name

Onebrief, Inc.

Website

https://onebrief.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

Onebrief is an AI-powered Command Operating System serving U.S. and allied military organizations. It provides real-time collaborative planning, wargaming, simulation, and AI-assisted decision workflows for operational planning across combatant commands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Military Planning Software

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (54151), Computer Systems Design and Related Services (5415)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Integrated Systems Design (7373), Services-Computer Programming Services (7371)

akta.pro primary industry

Domain-Specific Training Data Solutions (e.g., medical, AV, geospatial) (HDAAALAL)

akta.pro secondary industries

Simulation & Scenario-Based Learning Authoring (EDAFAHAD), Intelligent Document Processing (IDP) & OCR Automation (HDAEAHAC)

Keywords

• Military planning software
• Defense command platform
• Operational planning tools
• AI military operations
• Military staff workflows

Headquarters

HQ city

Honolulu

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices2 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Operations, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Paid Subscription Licenses: Onebrief services are delivered as Paid Accounts in exchange for payment, with automatic periodic billing; accounts can be cancelled at any time. The Terms of Service reference a separate 'Onebrief License Terms and Conditions' governing paid subscriber use, indicating an enterprise license-based recurring revenue model supplemented by free trials.
2. Professional Services and Embedded Support: Onebrief provides hands-on training, in-product onboarding, '101/201' training sessions, and dedicated account management support as part of customer enablement, typical of enterprise defense software deployments.
3. Government / Defense Contracting: Revenue is generated through contracts with the U.S. Department of Defense and allied military organizations, including use across classified networks (NIPR, SIPR, JWICS) and IL5-accredited deployments. Battle Road Digital holds a three-year, $40 million U.S. Army contract.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Onebrief provides an AI-powered Command Operating System that unifies live operational data, agentic workflows, decision intelligence, and collaborative authoring for military staff planning, briefing, and execution. The platform runs on classified and unclassified DoD networks (NIPR, SIPR, JWICS, coalition), ingests Word/PowerPoint/Excel/PDF inputs into a structured Cards data model, and exposes a bidirectional API to mission systems such as Maven Smart System and Advana. Add-on capabilities include AI Assist (Anthropic Claude 3.7) for drafting plans, orders, and briefs, and Battle Road Digital's wargaming, modeling, and simulation tools.

Product overview

Onebrief offers a platform-plus-modules architecture built around the Onebrief Platform — its core Command Operating System that unifies live operational data, agentic workflows, decision intelligence, and collaborative authoring into a single resilient workspace for military staff planning and decision-making. The platform is augmented by AI Assist, a doctrine-aware AI assistant powered by Anthropic Claude 3.7 that generates plans, orders, and briefs and answers natural-language queries across Cards, Boards, Orders, and attached documents. In January 2026, Onebrief expanded the platform with the acquisition of Battle Road Digital, integrating best-in-class gaming technology for real-time wargaming, modeling, and simulation into the unified command environment, with plans to scale user productivity toward 100x by continuing to advance AI Assist.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• AI Assist: Secure, intuitive, and doctrine-aware AI assistant built on Anthropic Claude for military teams to plan and collaborate.
• Onebrief Platform

Products and services

• Onebrief Platform (Command Operating System) Unified command operating system for military staff workflows that fuses live operational data, agentic workflows, decision intelligence, and collaborative authoring into a single resilient workspace. Includes Cards, Boards, Orders, Documents, Presentations, C2 Charts, Whiteboards, Timelines, and Maps with real-time synchronization, audit-logged version control, and DDIL-ready architecture. Targeted at U.S. and allied military headquarters and staffs.
• AI Assist Secure, doctrine-aware AI assistant built on Anthropic Claude 3.7 that generates and updates plans, orders, and briefs, drafts documents, and answers natural-language questions across Cards, Boards, Orders, PDFs, Spreadsheets, and Tables. Read-only with auto-deleting chat history for OPSEC. Targeted at military planning teams and command staffs.
• Battle Road Digital (Wargaming and Simulation) Defense innovation offering applying best-in-class gaming technology to national security challenges, providing real-time operational decision support, wargaming, modeling, and simulation integrated into the Onebrief unified command environment. Acquired by Onebrief in January 2026 to extend the platform from planning into stress-testing decisions and anticipating second-order effects.

Quantifiable outcome

• Average user completes workflows 3x as fast as legacy tools; some users reach 100x speed improvements.
• +12 more outcomes

Named customers6 records

Segments8 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

AI capability9 records

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered flagship, core and major.

• Battle Road DigitalflagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 13 January 2026Battle Road Digital was acquired by Onebrief in January 2026 as part of the Series D funding. The acquisition integrated Battle Road's real-time operational decision support, wargaming, and simulation technologies into Onebrief's platform. Battle Road holds a three-year, $40 million U.S. Army contract. Founder Josh Henderson now leads simulation integration within Onebrief.
• AnthropiccoreTechnology or IntegrationAnthropic's Claude (including Claude 3.7) is the AI model underlying Onebrief's AI Assist feature. AI Assist is built on Anthropic Claude with training on open-source U.S. military doctrine, historical orders, staff outputs, and general world knowledge.
• Maven Smart System (MSS)majorTechnology or IntegrationMaven Smart System is integrated with Onebrief's bidirectional API as a mission data source. In a U.S. Geographic Combatant Command exercise, exporting a Onebrief map into MSS via the API saved half a day's worth of work.
• AdvanamajorTechnology or IntegrationAdvana is connected to Onebrief's policy-aware, versioned API as a key mission data source to power a live, shared mission picture.

Scale indicators14 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Emerging players

• Scale AI: Scale AI provides data infrastructure, evaluation, and AI applications for defense and government customers including the DoD. It overlaps on the defense-AI go-to-market and competes for adjacent budget lines, though its core offering is data/eval rather than operational planning.
• Primer.ai: Primer builds AI for national security and intelligence analysis, including summarization and entity extraction across large document sets. It is comparable as a domain-specialized AI vendor serving DoD/IC customers, though more focused on intelligence than operational planning.
• Shield AI: Shield AI builds AI-enabled autonomy and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance systems used by DoD and allied forces. It overlaps on the AI-for-defense thesis and competes for similar DoD modernization dollars, though focused on autonomous systems rather than staff workflows.

Direct peers

• Palantir Technologies: Palantir's Gotham and Foundry platforms are deeply embedded across DoD planning, intelligence, and operational workflows. It is the most direct competitor for mission-critical defense software dollars and a benchmark for what scale in this market looks like.
• Anduril Industries: Anduril's Lattice command-and-control platform competes for the same 'operating system for modern command' thesis as Onebrief, with similar DoD focus, AI-native architecture, and rapid procurement adoption. It is the most comparable well-funded direct peer in defense C2 software.
• Govini: Govini provides defense and government analytics software that supports planning, acquisition, and operational decisions across DoD programs. It targets the same buyer with a data-and-analytics layer adjacent to Onebrief's operational planning surface.

Broad incumbents

• Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen is a major DoD and intelligence community consulting and technology integrator with deep relationships across combatant commands. It is comparable as a large incumbent competing for defense modernization dollars and increasingly investing in its own AI software offerings.
• Leidos: Leidos is a top-tier defense IT services prime with deep DoD program-of-record positions, cleared personnel at scale, and large mission-system contracts. It is comparable as an incumbent defender of DoD software and services spend, but addresses it via services-led delivery rather than a SaaS platform.
• C3.ai: C3.ai is an enterprise AI application platform with an established defense practice serving the DoD and intelligence community. It offers overlapping AI-application capability but as part of a broad enterprise portfolio rather than a defense-native operating system.

Regional players

• Helsing: Helsing is a European defense AI company building AI-enabled capabilities for NATO allies. It is comparable as a venture-backed, AI-native defense software vendor targeting allied militaries, primarily competing in European rather than U.S. procurement.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks7 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/onebrief

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles11 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds9 records

Investors16 records

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M&A1 record

Investments

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