Wargames that train decisions against an adversary who adapts.
Privateer designs, builds and runs decision-training wargames for contested environments: logistics, maritime, cyber and homeland operations. A small team, short lead times, and a working product you can play today.
“Arrived at this place after a cruize of 5 months, and being chased during that time thirty four times, by frigates and men-of war brigs, but always out sailed them.”
Captain Thomas Boyle, log of the privateer Comet, 19 March 1814
Capabilities
We deliver working wargames in weeks, not program cycles, and we price them to be run again and again rather than once.
Wargame design and development
Browser-based campaigns built on open-source material, from scenario concept through play-tested release. Nothing to install on government networks.
Adversary modeling
An authored, deterministic adversary that responds to player decisions. Every behavior is sourced, auditable and reproducible, so an instructor can explain exactly why a player lost.
Facilitation and after-action review
Guided sessions for cohorts, with a debrief that shows the picture each player held beside what was actually there. The gap between the two is the lesson.
Custom scenarios
New theaters and mission sets built on the same engine, including domestic infrastructure and homeland scenarios. A new theater is a new threat set, not a new system.
Games of War
The decision-training platform Privateer builds with its partners.
Players command a force through a multi-turn campaign while the adversary adapts to what they do. Deception, cyber effects and pressure on the population shape what players can see, and the after-action report reconstructs every decision against ground truth.
Four campaigns are live today across maritime and ground operations, with an instructor dashboard for running cohorts.
The chart the player held
The debrief, ground truth onWays to engage
Start small and scale on evidence.
Pilot session
One facilitated session with your people on an existing campaign, with a full after-action review.
Cohort licence
Platform access for a course or unit, with instructor accounts and the analytics dashboard.
Custom scenario
A campaign built for your theater, mission set or infrastructure, delivered on the same engine.
Company data
For contracting officers and teaming partners.
| Legal name | Privateer LLC |
|---|---|
| UEI | Pending SAM.gov activation |
| CAGE code | Pending SAM.gov activation |
| NAICS codes | 541511 Custom computer programming services 513210 Software publishers 611430 Professional and management development training 541690 Other scientific and technical consulting services |
| Business size | Small business |
| Point of contact | info@privateerllc.io |
Managing member
Owner operator. One person builds the engine, runs the sessions and answers the phone.
Aaron N. Myers
Aaron N. Myers is the founder and engine author of Games of War. Since February 2022 he has planned and coordinated humanitarian logistics into wartime Ukraine, including open-source satellite imagery analysis, sourcing, routing, and fundraising, as a project manager with Cops Helping Cops and through the Rotary Club of Global Impact and the Crystal City Pentagon Rotary Club, moving relief into a denied space when established channels could not.
He has served since 2022 as a contract dignitary and executive protection agent with Independent Security Advisors in the Washington-Baltimore area, doing risk assessment, site surveys, and protective advance work, and in spring 2020 worked intake at a New York State Department of Health COVID-19 test site in New York City, a joint operation with the National Guard and State Police.
He is the author of "The Horse Paths," has completed CISA's full ten-part 210W industrial control systems cybersecurity series along with DHS Office for Bombing Prevention protective-security training, and attended the Hoover Institution's GoodFellows Live at Stanford.
“And that no person may plead ignorance of this, my proclamation, I have ordered the same to be made public… Given under my hand on board the Chasseur.”
Captain Thomas Boyle, proclamation of blockade of the British Isles, 1814
Request a briefing
Tell us who you train and what you need them to decide. We reply within two business days.