Legion Intelligence

Legion Intelligence, based in San Francisco and formerly known as Yurts, is a secure agent orchestration platform, what it calls the Command Layer, built for defense, national security, and large secure enterprises. Founded by chief executive Ben Van Roo and rebranded from Yurts to Legion in 2025, it raised a forty million dollar Series B led by XYZ Ventures, Glynn Capital, and Nava Ventures, and holds multi year contracts with the U.S. Special Operations Command, the U.S. Army, and the Department of Energy across networks ranging from sensitive to top secret. Its thesis is that once AI moves from answering questions to executing mission workflows, every action must be governed, auditable, and performed under human authority.

The Legion Platform connects an organization's critical systems, data, and models into governed agentic workflows that complete real work rather than just surfacing insights, with humans commanding and agents operating while every action is attributed. Secure Connectors and data gateways provide allow listed integrations and entitled data paths into systems like SharePoint, Teams, Oracle, and Palantir, with row and column controls and end to end provenance. A multi model routing layer sends each task to the right commercial or open source model with guardrails, drift alerts, and a continuous red team and test range, while Mission Kits provide configurable starter agents and policy as code for intelligence, logistics, and acquisition. Its retrieval system is strong enough to match leading contextual retrieval quality at a fraction of the cost, and everything is deployable across cloud, on premise, classified, and air gapped environments, with a Centurion edge system for denied, degraded, intermittent, and limited settings. Reported outcomes include ninety four percent faster intelligence summary generation and hundreds of staff hours saved each week.

Legion is engineered with security as an architectural constraint rather than an afterthought, running hardened container images, supporting FedRAMP and classified environments, and keeping every output auditable under human control. Its strengths are unusually broad: secure orchestration, multi model flexibility, extreme deployment range, and governance, and it does not drive a browser. For a defense, government, or highly regulated enterprise that needs to run coordinated, governed agents inside sensitive or air gapped environments with full auditability, Legion is a strong and rare fit; a small team wanting a quick, self serve consumer style agent builder will find it built for mission critical scale and security instead.