Secure frontier AI for government & adjacent knowledge work
Vulcan builds agents for government and government-adjacent work. We currently sell two agents: Justinian and Trajan.
Justinian is an AI agent coworker for people who work in and adjacent to American government. To power Justinian, we created the world’s largest legal and policy database and knowledge graph, accessible to our customers via our platform, email, and Slack.
Trajan is a public-facing AI concierge built to help governments modernize service delivery. Hosted on a government website, Trajan helps businesses and citizens automatically complete permits, licenses, applications, and answer regulatory and legal questions.
In addition to government customers, Vulcan's agents serve regulatory, legal, policy, and government relations teams at major U.S. enterprises.
Total raised
$10.9M
Last stage
Seed
Investors
Tanner Jones
Tanner studied PPE and Classics at Dartmouth. Previously, he founded and exited Downballot Solutions with Arvind Veluvali (Fresco AI, YC F24), a political campaign tech startup. Later, Tanner was the Technology and Regulatory Policy Director at Joe Lonsdale's Cicero Institute, where he was the 2024 employee of the year. Tanner also coached the 2021 speech and debate national champion, holds powerlifting records in two states, and qualified to the 2023 IPL world powerlifting championships.
LinkedInChris Minge
Chris studied computer science and philosophy at Princeton University, graduating in 2022. After graduating, he was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on ML infrastructure, supporting Gemini, Waymo, Vertex AI, and other services.
Aleksander Mekhanik
Dropped out of Dartmouth where he studied Machine Learning; national chess champion and Jack Byrne grant recipient for top math students. Worked as an AI engineer at several startups before founding Vulcan.
LinkedInNo applications, no recruiter spam. Just the intro.
A few questions to make sure this role is the right shape for you. Two minutes.
I write the intro, send it to the founder, and handle the back-and-forth.
Chris Minge
Chris studied computer science and philosophy at Princeton University, graduating in 2022. After graduating, he was a software engineer at Google, where he worked on ML infrastructure, supporting Gemini, Waymo, Vertex AI, and other services.
If they’re a yes, I book the chat. You show up — that’s the whole job-hunt.