ConductorAI, a dual-use software company specializing in AI-enabled approvals, announced $15 million in Series A funding led by Lux Capital. Other participants included Altman Capital, Haystack Ventures, Sunflower Capital, Humba Ventures, Also Capital, Forward Deployed VC, and Abstract.
As government employees deal with substantial paperwork and policy while outsiders struggle to navigate bureaucracy, ConductorAI’s platform has become a solution for transforming how agencies handle approvals, reducing weeks-long processes to minutes. This approach enables employees to spend more time applying critical thinking and less time Ctrl+F’ing through thousands of pages of guidance, and it accelerates the administration of government services.
ConductorAI’s flagship product Conduit is a platform built to ingest policy documents, prior approvals, and heuristics to orchestrate document review and approvals within the DOD, USG, IC, and other highly regulated entities. And by atomizing policy statements into AI-enabled agents, rules, workflow steps, and document edits, the platform works as a research assistant and expert reviewer to identify and resolve issues. This software is data-agnostic, model-independent, and can be adapted to deploy into various customer environments, including classified settings.
The company’s approach utilizes approved LLMs and decades of expertise building software for defense sector customers to address the gap between novel capabilities and mission-oriented needs. ConductorAI is actively working with the Department of Defense, such as the Air Force, Space Force, and Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office, and is pursuing work with other service branches, USG agencies, and defense industrial base customers.
This funding round represents one of the largest Series A ever for a Maine-based advanced technology company. And with this funding, ConductorAI will expand its reach across government agencies, regulated industries, and companies that struggle with identifying how to achieve compliance within their own organization or via partners.
KEY QUOTES:
“The government is drowning in bureaucracy. Our platform can help government employees tackle various approval challenges by identifying the people, policies, and prior approvals they need to get things done. Our mission is to both make the government more efficient and to make it easier for companies to get what they need from the government to be successful.”
– ConductorAI Co-Founder and CEO Zach Long
“Unlike most defense companies focused on hardware, ConductorAI operates upstream where the real bottleneck exists—the document and compliance workflows that gridlock critical government processes. Their tech delivers an order of magnitude improvement, reducing year long review cycles to just months. In today’s era of global competition, this efficiency isn’t just good business—it’s essential for strengthening our national capabilities.”
– Lan Jiang, Investor at Lux Capital
