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Prior Foundry

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Founded 2026

3 Employees

Located in San Francisco, California

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Simulate how entire populations respond to decisions before they're made.

Prior Foundry is an applied AI lab advancing society-level simulations. We build a decision intelligence platform for governments and policy teams, simulating how real populations respond to policy before millions of people feel it. Our platform provides on-demand behavioral intelligence that used to take consultants months, if not years to produce. Built on our research at the Stanford lab that pioneered human behavior simulation. In just two months, we got to 60k ARR, a partnership with the OECD across 38+ member governments, a pilot with Allegheny County in the US, and >1M in pipeline through a distributor.

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Meet the Team

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CEO at Prior Foundry

Shirin Abrishami Kashani

Oxford MS and Stanford PhD as Knight-Hennessy Scholar, former OECD policy analyst advising governments on major policy decisions. On a mission to redefine the future of decision-making.

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CTO at Prior Foundry

Keshav Sivakumar

Builder at heart, second-time founder, passionate about the intersection of society and technology. CS @ Cambridge, ex-palantir.

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Chief Scientific Officer at Prior Foundry

Jonne Kamphorst

Former Stanford postdoc leading research at the CS lab that pioneered human behavioral simulation - the next frontier in shaping society. Behavioral science @ LSE, Oxford and EUI, PhD, Fulbright Scholar