Hacking the Pentagon

This text provides excerpts from a YouTube video interview with Grant Demory, the co-founder of OneBrief, a company developing software to significantly accelerate military operational planning. Demory explains that traditional military planning relies heavily on Word and PowerPoint, a process that can take years for large operations, but OneBrief uses a card-based system to streamline collaboration and rapidly generate necessary documents like operations orders and plans. He details the company's rapid growth and how he started the venture after witnessing the inefficiency of planning processes as a junior Army officer. Finally, Demory discusses the unique challenges of selling to the military, including navigating the "Authority to Operate" (ATO) accreditation process, and OneBrief's future goals, including integrating AI for automated course of action generation to make military staffs "lightning fast."