DARE Labs Expands AI-Powered Intelligence Solutions Across Defense and Commercial Markets

Atlanta, Georgia — Atlanta-based defense technology startup DARE Labs is expanding its AI and data

engineering solutions, helping government agencies and commercial enterprises convert the

operational data their systems already produce into model-ready intelligence and into AI systems

trained on the way their organizations work. The company has generated more than $2.5 million in revenue over the last few years while delivering AI capabilities across defense, enterprise, and

commercial programs.

Founded by researcher Dr. Marcus Edwards and engineer Demar Rogers, MBA, DARE Labs represents a growing wave of Black-led innovation in artificial intelligence, defense technology, and advanced data intelligence. Combining deep research expertise with engineering and business leadership, the founders are developing practical AI solutions that bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and real-world deployment across government and commercial sectors.

The company’s work spans data and cloud infrastructure, AI integration and modernization, model

engineering, and knowledge and decision systems, covering the full path from fragmented enterprise

data to deployed, mission-specific models. “We’re moving from one-size-fits-all AI to specialized models that run where the data lives,” Rogers said.

At the center of that work is Cerebro, the company’s flagship platform and a data refinery for AI training. Cerebro takes the raw operational record an organization produces every day, including documents, media, telemetry, logs and recorded work, and resolves it into a structured knowledge graph. From that graph it generates two outputs: training data that teaches a model how the organization operates, and reinforcement learning environments that score the model against real outcomes rather than general benchmarks. The result is a measurable answer to a question most enterprises cannot answer today: how well AI can actually perform our work, and what will it cost to close the gap.

More than $2.5 million in revenue over the last few years demonstrates both the demand for the company’s technology and its ability to deliver AI capabilities in mission-critical environments. DARE

Labs concentrates on data-intensive sectors where daily operations generate large volumes of

proprietary technical data and where leadership is actively moving to adopt AI. In those environments

the operational record is the differentiator, because it is precisely the data frontier models were never

trained on.

According to Rogers, successfully adopting AI will increasingly depend on how effectively organizations deploy technology around their specific needs. “The winners won’t be the organizations spending the most on frontier models, but those building trusted, cost-efficient AI tailored to their mission. DARE Labs helps make that possible by connecting fragmented data, generating evaluation datasets, and enabling secure model fine-tuning and deployment.” 

As organizations continue to navigate the rapidly evolving landscape of artificial intelligence, DARE Labs remains focused on developing practical, deployable solutions that enable government agencies and commercial enterprises to harness AI more effectively while improving operational efficiency, data

intelligence, and informed decision-making.

About DARE Labs

DARE Labs is an Atlanta-based, Black-owned defense technology company specializing in artificial intelligence, intelligent data platforms, AI training data infrastructure, and advanced analytics for government and commercial organizations. Founded in 2024 by Dr. Marcus Edwards and Demar Rogers, MBA, the company develops innovative AI-powered solutions that bridge research and real-world deployment, helping organizations transform complex data into actionable intelligence that supports mission success and business performance.

For more information, visit www.darelabs.net.