Delegance AI
Delegance AI is a US AI software company founded in 2026 by former Naval Research Laboratory AI researcher Dustin Dannenhauer.
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Delegance AI is a US AI software company founded in 2026 by former Naval Research Laboratory AI researcher Dustin Dannenhauer. It builds open software to decentralize AI, letting people direct AI work and verify results on their own machines with models of their choice. Its first product, Alinery, is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Playbook IDE for coordinating teams of AI agents.
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BusinessLatest roundTotal raisedDate- Delegance AI
Delegance AI is a US AI software company founded in 2026 by former Naval Research Laboratory AI researcher Dustin Dannenhauer. It builds open software to decentralize AI, letting people direct AI work and verify results on their own machines with models of their choice. Its first product, Alinery, is an open-source (Apache 2.0) Playbook IDE for coordinating teams of AI agents.
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