Company
About Brief
Brief is the Executive Intelligence platform. It owns whether the decisions and commitments a leader sets in motion carry through, so they walk into every conversation prepared.
We did not start with a product. We started with a problem we could not stop thinking about.
Brief was founded by three Silicon Valley entrepreneurs who spent their careers watching the same problem recur. They finally had both the conviction and the technical foundation to build the right solution for it.
The three are Larry Augustin, Zac Sprackett and Clint Oram, operators who built SugarCRM, and they started Brief in 2026.
Larry Augustin
Chief Executive Officer
Larry led SugarCRM as CEO and ran all productivity applications at Amazon Web Services. He spent years watching CRM answer the wrong question for executives. Brief answers how the work carries through.
Larry Augustin on LinkedIn
Zac Sprackett
Chief Technology Officer
Zac was CTO at SugarCRM and has spent his career building production systems at scale. His view: most AI tools use the language model as the memory layer. That is the wrong design. Brief separates those responsibilities.
Zac Sprackett on LinkedIn
Clint Oram
Chief Growth Officer
Clint co-founded SugarCRM and spent 20 years doing nearly every job there. He has spent the last year listening to executives describe firsthand how decided work slips away. What he heard confirmed that the problem is structural, not personal.
Clint Oram on LinkedIn
The investors who backed Brief bet on a category, not a product.
Brief closed a $5M seed round in May 2026, led by EPIC Ventures with participation from Boulder Ventures.
EPIC VenturesEPIC Ventures backs early-stage enterprise and deep technology companies across the western United States, with a particular focus on systems of work and enterprise intelligence.
We invest in operators who have built category-defining enterprise software before, because they are the ones who recognize when a real category is forming. Larry, Zac, and Clint did that work at SugarCRM. Executive Intelligence is the same kind of opportunity. It is not a feature inside an existing category. It is a new layer of enterprise software, and Brief is the team building it.
Nick Efstratis, Partner, EPIC Ventures
Boulder VenturesBoulder Ventures is an early-stage venture firm investing in enterprise software and applied AI, focused on founders building systems that change how organizations operate at the leadership level.
Every executive in our portfolio runs the same morning. They open eight tools to reconstruct what their team already decided last week, and the cost shows up in slower decisions and weaker follow-through. Brief is built differently. It is a knowledge-centric system that maintains context where today's tools only capture activity, and that architectural shift is what makes the executive function of enterprise software finally addressable.
Jonathan Perl, Partner, Boulder Ventures
Contact
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- contact@trybrief.ai
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Brief Productivity Solutions, Inc.
4546 El Camino Real, Ste B10 PMB 641, Los Altos, CA 94022
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