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Vulcan Technologies

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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 p

Founded 2025Origin source ↗Checked 2026-09-15

Overview

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.

Company description As recorded 2026-11-08
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Founders & team

Tanner Jones

Founder/CEO

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.

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Founder profile As recorded 2026-09-15

Aleksander Mekhanik

Founder

Alek earned the prestigious Jack Byrne grant offered to the top math students at Dartmouth, where he studied electrical computer engineering with a focus in machine learning. Previously, Alek was a nationally competitive chess player and high school varsity athlete. He has also contributed to several startups as a machine learning engineer. Beyond Vulcan, Alek holds Ivy League and Arizona powerlifting records and qualified to USAPL collegiate nationals.

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Chris Minge

Founder/CTO

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.

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17team members reported
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Location · source statedAustin, TX, USA
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