About PRIMITIVE
Operators, not observers.
PRIMITIVE was built by people who shipped infrastructure at Scaleway, created innovation programs at POC Innovation, and ran cybersecurity operations across 42 and Epitech. We build, we break, we ship.
Founders
Three builders, one thesis.
Security, infrastructure, and education converge. Each founder brings a decade of operating at the frontier.
Loïc
@pwnh4 · Co-founder · Security & AI
Offensive-security operator turned builder. From smart-contract audits to adversarial AI, Loïc drives PRIMITIVE's security curriculum, challenge infrastructure, and consulting engagements. He builds the systems others try to break.
Manfred Touron
@moul · Co-founder · R&D & Infra
Core contributor at gno.land and creator of Berty. Previously built infrastructure at Scaleway. 600+ public repositories and counting. Manfred leads lab missions, shapes R&D methodology, and forges research partnerships across the decentralized stack.
Flavian Gontier
@flavian · Co-founder · Education & Ops
Co-founded POC Innovation and built programs bridging elite engineering schools with frontier R&D. Flavian runs school partnerships, module design, and the talent pipeline connecting Epitech, 42, and EPITA with real-world technical missions.
Mission
The best way to learn frontier tech is to build it.
Build, don’t lecture
Every module, mission, and lab produces artifacts. Prototypes, exploits, benchmarks, threat models — not slide decks.
Operators first
Our team has built production infra, run security ops, and shipped research. We teach from experience, not theory.
Push the frontier
We work where the textbook doesn’t exist yet. Agentic AI, autonomous vehicles, robot swarms, onchain systems.
Work with us.
Whether you’re a school, a company, or a researcher with a hard problem — we’re interested.