Certus Core

Name

Certus Core

Legal name

Certus Core Corporation

Website

https://certuscore.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2021

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Defense AI Decision Intelligence Software

NAICS

Computer Systems Design Services (541512)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372)

akta.pro primary industry

iBPMS (Intelligent BPM Suites) & Process Automation Suites (HDAEAHAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

On-Device Inference Runtimes & SDKs (mobile/embedded) (HDAAAJAB)

Keywords

• Defense AI software
• Data fusion platform
• Decision intelligence
• Sensor integration
• Edge computing analytics

Headquarters

HQ city

Tampa

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Software

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Software Platform Licensing: IBIS platform is offered as a software solution with enterprise licensing. The company offers an 8-week pilot program as an entry point, suggesting a subscription or contract-based revenue model. Enterprise deals with defense and government customers typically involve multi-year contracts.
2. Professional Services: Implementation and integration services likely included as part of enterprise deployments, particularly given the complex nature of defense and intelligence system integrations.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Certus Core develops and sells IBIS™, an AI-powered decision intelligence platform that fuses heterogeneous sensor, intelligence, and operational data through agentic AI, knowledge graphs, and natural language processing. The platform is delivered on a 6"x6"x2" edge appliance requiring no cloud infrastructure, allowing defense, intelligence, and government operators to query complex data in plain English and receive verified, governed insights in seconds. Supporting frameworks (cerDO, ciuTshi) and domain modules (e.g., RFX for electronic warfare) extend the core offering.

Product overview

Certus Core offers IBIS™ (Information Bridging and Integration System) as its core unified platform, augmented by two complementary frameworks: cerDO (Data Ontology Framework) for mission-specific data modeling, and ciuTshi (Modular Data Operations Framework) for autonomous systems integration. The platform operates as an edge-deployed appliance (6"x6"x2", 2 lbs) requiring no cloud infrastructure, delivering agentic AI-powered natural language data querying to defense, government, and enterprise customers. RFX is an electronic warfare sub-module within IBIS™. The company also offers an 8-week pilot program as the primary customer engagement model.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• IBIS™ (Information Bridging and Integration System): AI-powered platform combining agentic AI, conversational data interactions, and AI governance for decision-making.
• ciuTshi
• cerDO

Products and services

• IBIS™ (Information Bridging and Integration System) Core AI-powered decision intelligence platform combining agentic AI, knowledge graphs, natural language processing, and AI governance to enable plain-English querying of heterogeneous data sources and return verified insights, visualizations, and maps in seconds. Delivered as an edge-deployable appliance for defense, intelligence, and government customers.
• RFX (Electronic Warfare data exploitation) Electronic warfare sub-product within IBIS™ that brings agentic AI to EW sensor data, providing multi-sensor integration and advanced signal processing for real-time decision-making in contested environments.
• 8-Week Pilot Partnership Program No-risk pilot engagement allowing organizations to evaluate IBIS™ with up to 2TB of their own data across three sources, full platform access for three users, and a complete refund if they decide not to continue.

Quantifiable outcome

• Decision-making speed: From days/hours to seconds
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers4 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability6 records

Feature8 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Beam Sea AssociatescoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSTTR partnership with SOCOM for AI-powered meshed AUVs for collaborative sensing. Beam Sea Associates provided expertise in hybrid underwater LiDAR and Communications systems as part of the collaborative sensing network project.
• Tampa Deep Sea XplorerscoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSTTR partnership with SOCOM for AI-powered meshed AUVs for collaborative sensing. Tampa Deep Sea Xplorers contributed multi-platform robotics integration expertise for underwater autonomous operations.
• USF Institute of Applied EngineeringcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerSTTR partnership with SOCOM for AI-powered meshed AUVs for collaborative sensing. USF Institute of Applied Engineering provided applied engineering research capabilities for the autonomous sensing network project.
• Actualization.AIminorGTM or Marketing PartnerJoint webinar partnership for 'From Hype to High Stakes: AI in Defense Procurement' featuring Actualization.AI Founder and CEO John Licato discussing AI implementation in defense environments.

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Palantir Technologies: Palantir's Gotham and AIP platforms provide AI-driven data integration, knowledge graphs, and decision intelligence across defense, intelligence, and enterprise — the most direct large-scale analogue to Certus Core's IBIS, with much broader deployment and a deep defense customer base.
• Anduril Industries: Anduril's Lattice platform fuses sensor data across autonomous systems and edge devices for defense applications, directly competing in the multi-sensor fusion and edge AI decision-support category where Certus Core plays.
• Booz Allen Hamilton: Booz Allen's defense AI practice delivers AI/ML-enabled decision support, data integration, and analytics across DoD and intelligence customers — a major incumbent that frequently competes for the same defense AI programs.
• Databricks: Databricks is explicitly named in Certus Core's positioning as a traditional alternative it competes against; both serve data engineering, AI/ML, and analytics workloads across defense and enterprise.
• Snowflake: Snowflake is the second traditional data platform Certus Core explicitly positions against; both target enterprise and federal customers needing integrated data and AI workloads.
• Leidos: Leidos is a top-tier defense prime delivering AI-enabled data analytics, sensor fusion, and intelligence integration across DoD and intelligence community customers — competing for similar program dollars.
• C3.ai: C3.ai delivers enterprise and defense AI applications including data fusion, predictive analytics, and decision support, with federal/defense as an established vertical — overlapping Certus Core's target use cases.
• SAIC: SAIC provides defense IT, data analytics, and AI integration services across DoD and intelligence customers, frequently bidding on the same defense data-fusion and decision intelligence programs.

Direct peers

• Scale AI: Scale AI's Defense Llama and Donovan platform deliver AI-enabled decision intelligence for military and intelligence customers, including data integration, NLP, and mission-configured workflows — closely aligned with Certus Core's positioning.
• Primer AI: Primer provides NLP-driven intelligence analysis and multi-source data fusion for defense and intelligence customers, directly overlapping Certus Core's multi-INT COP and intelligence data integration use cases.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/certuscore

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds2 records

Investors2 records

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M&A

Investments

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