Project Overview
At Primer.ai, I contributed to the development of Primer Command, an AI-powered open-source intelligence (OSINT) solution designed to provide real-time operational clarity. Primer Command processed up to 5 million social media posts, blogs, and news articles daily, supporting over 100 languages and ingesting 60,000+ global and local news sources. My primary focus was on implementing real-time visualizations of intelligence data, enabling users to monitor, track, and interpret vast amounts of information efficiently.
My Contributions
- Tech Stack: React, D3.js, WebSockets, Node.js, AWS, Python
- Responsibilities:
- Implemented real-time visualizations of intelligence data, allowing users to quickly grasp and act on emerging narratives and events.
- Integrated WebSocket technology to ensure live updates of visualizations, providing users with the most current data available.
- Collaborated with data scientists and intelligence analysts to ensure that the visualizations met the specific needs of users and accurately represented the underlying data.
- Ensured that the platform was scalable and could handle the high volume of data typical of OSINT applications.
Challenges
One of the key challenges was ensuring that the visualizations were both responsive and informative, capable of updating in real-time without sacrificing performance. The need to handle large volumes of data and provide actionable insights in a visually clear manner required careful optimization and close collaboration with other teams.
Outcomes
The implementation of real-time visualizations significantly improved the ability of users to monitor and respond to unfolding events. Primer Command's visual tools became a critical component in helping users interpret data quickly and effectively, directly supporting strategic and operational decision-making.
Core Benefits
Primer Command was designed to empower teams to detect emerging events, narratives, and trends within rapidly changing social media and news landscapes. Key features included situational awareness, adversarial narrative tracking, semantic search, and social summarization. The platform provided real-time analysis and summaries of news and social media, helping users stay ahead of rapidly evolving situations. It also offered contextual intelligence, understanding the connections between people, places, and organizations, and streamlined reporting to integrate with users' preferred tools.
Reflection
Working on Primer Command was an eye-opening experience in terms of the power of real-time data and its impact on decision-making. This project deepened my understanding of data visualization and reinforced the importance of performance optimization in applications handling large-scale, real-time data. I was particularly proud of the role I played in enabling users to stay informed and responsive to rapidly evolving situations.