An AI research and product company · Est. 1996

Primary builds AI that does the work.

Thirty years bringing each new wave of the internet to the people who use it — dial-up, broadband, fiber, the cloud. Our flagship product, PrimaryEDU, brings the next wave to students, teachers, and entire districts.

30 years · 5 waves

We’ve done this before. Five times.

Every fifteen years or so, a new layer of the internet arrives and changes what’s possible. Primary has been there for each one — getting the technology into the hands of real people, in real communities, in real classrooms.

  1. 1996Dial-up

    Got families and small towns online.

    Primary launched as one of America's first independent ISPs, bringing the early web to households, businesses, and the schools between them.

  2. 2001DSL & broadband

    Always-on, for everyone.

    When the web moved past dial-up, we moved with it. Kids could research, parents could work, and a generation grew up assuming the internet was just there.

  3. 2008Fiber

    Speed that changed what the web could be.

    Fiber made streaming, video calls, and real-time collaboration normal. We laid the connections that let schools and homes participate in the modern web.

  4. 2014Cloud

    The web moved off your desk.

    We helped customers move files, email, and businesses into the cloud — so the tools they relied on worked from any device, anywhere.

  5. 2026AI agents

    The work itself.

    Now we're bringing the next wave: AI that doesn't just give you information — it does the work. We're bringing it to schools first, through PrimaryEDU.

Flagship product · Available now

PrimaryEDU.

An AI agent for every student, teacher, and school. Shaped by the way classrooms actually work — with the privacy guarantees that families and districts require.

$10/mo

Per-student pricing

FERPA+ COPPA

Compliant by default

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Trained on student data

Students

A personal AI agent that helps with research, writing, scheduling, and inbox — for $10/month with a verified school email.

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Schools & districts

Admin dashboard, bulk provisioning, SSO, teacher and grade-level breakdowns, usage controls. One contract for the whole district.

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Privacy officers

FERPA, COPPA, and state-level student-data privacy compliance. Student work never trains AI models. Data deletion on request.

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How we build

Four principles that shape every Primary product.

01

Private by architecture

Your data — and your students' data — never trains our models. Privacy isn't a setting in a Primary product. It's how the system is built.

02

Agentic, not assistive

Primary doesn't return a draft and stop. Our agents take a task — research, scheduling, inbox, calls — and finish it.

03

Built for the field

Every Primary product is shaped by the compliance, workflows, and language of the people who use it. PrimaryEDU is built for classrooms, not bolted onto a chatbot.

04

Local credibility

We've spent thirty years connecting schools, families, and businesses in real communities. We know what it takes to actually ship technology that holds up.

Not in education?

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