/** * Seed roster — publicly documented people at Prime Intellect. * * Every record carries a confidence grade and a source URL. This is not * decoration: PIG holds claims about real people assembled from public * sources, and some of those claims rest on a single weak citation. A CRM that * presents a single-source LinkedIn headline with the same weight as a * corroborated one is a misinformation store with a nice table view. * * Rules applied throughout, and worth keeping if you extend this file: * * • **No email addresses.** None are published, and guessing them from a name * and a domain would be both unreliable and rude to the person on the * receiving end. * • **Authorship is not employment.** People named on papers or in * repositories are recorded with the affiliation actually evidenced — * `contributor`, `resident`, `alumni` — never promoted to `staff` because * it would make the roster look fuller. * • **"Not found" is recorded as unverified, not invented.** Where a name was * supplied but could not be sourced, the record says so. * * Sourced as of August 2026. It will go stale; that is what `sourceUrl` and * `confidenceNote` are for. */ import type { AffiliationKind, ConfidenceGrade, Team } from '@pig/core'; export interface SeedPerson { fullName: string; title: string | null; affiliation: AffiliationKind; confidence: ConfidenceGrade; confidenceNote?: string; sourceUrl?: string; githubHandle?: string; twitterHandle?: string; linkedinUrl?: string; websiteUrl?: string; /** Which PIG team this person would sit on, if they were a user. */ team?: Team; isDecisionMaker?: boolean; departed?: boolean; } export const PRIME_INTELLECT_PEOPLE: SeedPerson[] = [ // ------------------------------------------------------------- leadership { fullName: 'Vincent Weisser', title: 'Co-founder & CEO', affiliation: 'founder', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/vincentweisser', githubHandle: 'vincentweisser', twitterHandle: 'vincentweisser', websiteUrl: 'https://vincentweisser.com', linkedinUrl: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/vincentweisser/', isDecisionMaker: true, }, { fullName: 'Johannes Hagemann', title: 'Co-founder & CTO', affiliation: 'founder', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'GitHub bio states "co-founder/cto @PrimeIntellect-ai".', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/JohannesHa', githubHandle: 'JohannesHa', twitterHandle: 'johannes_hage', websiteUrl: 'https://hagemann.ai', isDecisionMaker: true, }, { fullName: 'Jannik Straube', title: 'Founding Head of Engineering', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'probable', confidenceNote: 'Title from a LinkedIn headline seen via search index, not a fetched primary page. ' + 'Employment itself is well evidenced: top contributor to the protocol and prime repos.', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/JannikSt', githubHandle: 'JannikSt', linkedinUrl: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/jannikstraube/', }, // -------------------------------------------------------------- go-to-market { fullName: 'Scott Cecil', title: 'GTM Lead', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'Corroborated by two independent sources. The only publicly identifiable ' + 'commercial hire found.', sourceUrl: 'https://theorg.com/org/prime-intellect/offices/hq', linkedinUrl: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/scottcecil1/', team: 'demand', isDecisionMaker: true, }, { fullName: 'Alex Ferguson', title: 'Head of Growth', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'Quoted by name and title in a published Nebius customer story, and publishes ' + "Prime Intellect's open-roles posts. Note: absent from GitHub org membership and " + 'paper author lists, which is expected for a growth role and is not evidence against.', sourceUrl: 'https://nebius.com/customer-stories/prime-intellect', twitterHandle: 'afurgs', linkedinUrl: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/afurg/', team: 'demand', isDecisionMaker: true, }, { fullName: 'Tyler Kovalcik', title: 'AI infrastructure sales / GTM strategy', affiliation: 'unknown', confidence: 'unverified', confidenceNote: 'Single self-reported LinkedIn profile. No corroborating source found, and no ' + 'Tyler appears in any Prime Intellect repository, paper, or org listing. ' + 'Verify before acting on this record.', linkedinUrl: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/tyler-kovalcik-30342367/', team: 'supply', }, // ------------------------------------------------------------------ research { fullName: 'Sami Jaghouar', title: 'Research lead', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'GitHub bio reads "leading research @PrimeIntellect-ai". First author on ' + 'INTELLECT-1, INTELLECT-2 and OpenDiLoCo.', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/samsja', githubHandle: 'samsja', twitterHandle: 'samsja19', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Will Brown', title: 'Research lead — RL environments', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'Creator and top contributor of `verifiers`, the library behind the Environments ' + "Hub. Named in the Environments Hub launch post as the contact for RFCs. Exact " + 'internal title not published; the role is inferred from ownership.', sourceUrl: 'https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/environments', githubHandle: 'willccbb', twitterHandle: 'willccbb', websiteUrl: 'https://willcb.com', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Jack Min Ong', title: 'Founding Research Engineer', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.07852', githubHandle: 'Jackmin801', twitterHandle: 'jackminong', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Mika Senghaas', title: 'Research engineer', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/mikasenghaas', githubHandle: 'mikasenghaas', twitterHandle: 'mikasenghaas', websiteUrl: 'https://mikasenghaas.de', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Florian Brand', title: 'Evals', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'GitHub bio reads "Evals @ Prime Intellect".', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/xeophon', githubHandle: 'xeophon', twitterHandle: 'xeophon', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Sebastian Müller', title: 'Research Engineer', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'GitHub bio states the role. Co-author of the Prime Agent post.', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/snimu', githubHandle: 'snimu', twitterHandle: 'omouamoua', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Ameen Patel', title: 'Inference', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'GitHub bio reads "Inference @PrimeIntellect-ai".', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/AmeenP', githubHandle: 'AmeenP', twitterHandle: 'ameen_ml', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Kevin Jose Thomas', title: 'Prime Agent', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent', githubHandle: 'kevinjosethomas', twitterHandle: 'kevinjosethomas', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Damian Barabonkov', title: 'Member of Technical Staff', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/DamianB-BitFlipper', githubHandle: 'DamianB-BitFlipper', twitterHandle: 'damian_b', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Dominik Scherm', title: 'Member of Technical Staff', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/d42me', githubHandle: 'd42me', twitterHandle: 'dominik_scherm', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Cooper Miller', title: 'Member of Technical Staff', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'confirmed', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/kcoopermiller', githubHandle: 'kcoopermiller', twitterHandle: 'kcoopm', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Mario Sieg', title: 'ML / HPC / compilers', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'probable', confidenceNote: 'GitHub company field lists Prime Intellect alongside TU Berlin.', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/MarioSieg', githubHandle: 'MarioSieg', twitterHandle: '_mario_neo_', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Matej Sirovatka', title: 'Research engineer', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'probable', confidenceNote: 'GitHub company field only; no title published.', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/S1ro1', githubHandle: 'S1ro1', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Manveer Basra', title: null, affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'probable', confidenceNote: 'GitHub company field; co-author on INTELLECT-1 and INTELLECT-2.', sourceUrl: 'https://arxiv.org/abs/2412.01152', githubHandle: 'manveerxyz', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Jessica Li', title: 'Applied Researcher', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'unverified', confidenceNote: 'Single crowd-sourced org-chart listing. No primary source found.', sourceUrl: 'https://theorg.com/org/prime-intellect/offices/hq', team: 'research', }, // ----------------------------------------------- explicitly NOT current staff { fullName: 'Justus Mattern', title: 'Alumnus — now co-founder elsewhere', affiliation: 'alumni', confidence: 'confirmed', confidenceNote: 'Co-author on INTELLECT-2 and a prime-rl contributor. GitHub bio now reads ' + '"Cofounder at Proximal", so this is a warm-intro node rather than a current ' + 'employee. Recorded to keep the roster honest.', sourceUrl: 'https://api.github.com/users/justusmattern27', githubHandle: 'justusmattern27', departed: true, }, { fullName: 'Alex Wa', title: 'RL Residency participant', affiliation: 'resident', confidence: 'probable', confidenceNote: "Real, and did develop RL environments in Prime Intellect's RL Residency — but " + 'is a Yale undergraduate interning elsewhere, NOT staff. Distinct from Alexandr ' + 'Wang (Scale AI / Meta), and possibly a garbling of Alex L. Zhang, a genuine ' + 'Prime Intellect person and Prime Agent co-author.', sourceUrl: 'https://djdumpling.github.io/', linkedinUrl: 'https://www.linkedin.com/in/alex-wa/', }, { fullName: 'Alex L. Zhang', title: 'Prime Agent co-author', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'probable', confidenceNote: 'Named as a co-author on the Prime Agent post. No further detail published.', sourceUrl: 'https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent', team: 'research', }, { fullName: 'Seth Karten', title: 'Prime Agent co-author', affiliation: 'staff', confidence: 'probable', sourceUrl: 'https://www.primeintellect.ai/blog/prime-agent', team: 'research', }, ]; /** * Named in the brief but not findable. * * Recorded deliberately rather than silently dropped: "we looked and found * nothing" is useful information, and leaving it out invites someone to add * the name again from memory. Absence here is weak evidence — a junior or * deliberately non-public employee looks identical to this search. */ export const UNRESOLVED_NAMES = [ { name: 'Anirudh', note: 'No Anirudh of any surname could be tied to Prime Intellect in GitHub org ' + 'membership, repository contributors, paper author lists, org charts, or blog ' + 'bylines. Not seeded. If you know who this is, add them with a source.', }, ]; /** * Customer references the company itself publishes. * * Useful as accounts, but note these are named as references and integrations, * which is not the same as a paying compute customer — a distinction worth * keeping in a CRM. * * These are REAL companies, so nothing may be attached to them that is not in * the cited source. A deal, an ACV, an executed MSA or an allocation invented * against one of these accounts is a fabricated commercial record about a real * business — the seed's worked example was booked against Ramp for exactly * this reason, and it is now booked against an invented company instead. */ export const PUBLIC_CUSTOMER_REFERENCES = [ { account: 'Ramp', person: 'Karim Atiyeh', title: 'Co-CEO', sourceUrl: 'https://www.primeintellect.ai/', }, { account: 'Zapier', person: 'Robin Salimans', title: 'Principal AI Engineer', sourceUrl: 'https://www.primeintellect.ai/', }, ];