Onebrief Raised $50 Million To iImprove Military Planning, And The Pentagon Is Taking Notice

For decades, military operational planning has been a tedious process, with teams sifting through interminable PowerPoint presentations, manually updating plans, and straining to stay up with changing scenarios. It was not only inefficient, but also hazardous. Critical choices were based on obsolete documents, resulting in delays and confusion in instances where every second counts. Grant Demaree witnessed this truth firsthand while serving as a captain in the United States Army. Grant's first exposure to large-scale planning occurred as a young lieutenant in Liberia during the Ebola epidemic. Later, when serving with SOJTF-OIR in Iraq, he learnt how difficult it was to change advanced operational plans on the fly. Frustrated by the inefficiencies he saw, he started sketching out the id