Organization

Contextual AI

Contextual AI is an AI model developer and enterprise software company headquartered in Mountain View, California2 1. This catalog lists 1 open model release from Contextual AI, under licenses including the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International.

Documented roles: Model developer · Enterprise software · Developer platform

Contextual AI builds an enterprise platform for creating AI agents and retrieval applications that work over an organization's own documents and data. It also sells component APIs for document parsing, instruction-following reranking, grounded generation, and natural-language unit tests for evaluating model outputs, and it has released open-weight reranker models.3 4 5 6Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

Last reviewedOct 2, 2026Entry updated Oct 2, 2026

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Key facts

Website: contextual.ai (external site: contextual.ai)
Legal name: Contextual AI, Inc.1 2
Ownership (separate from openness): Unknown
Recorded classification; fact-level ownership verification pending.
Legal form: Unknown
Headquarters: Mountain View, California2 1
Founded: Unknown
Sectors: Enterprise, Agents, Open models
Careers: Careers page (external site: contextual.ai)

What is and isn’t public

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Contextual AI's platform and component APIs are hosted services. It publishes some model weights on Hugging Face, including the Reranker v2 models under a noncommercial (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) license; that license does not permit commercial use of the weights.4 5 7Fact reviewed Oct 2, 2026

Products

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Hosted model products

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Contextual AI: hosted model products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Contextual AI component APIs (Parse, Rerank, Generate, LMUnit) (external site: contextual.ai)	Hosted model API	Token-priced hosted APIs, used with an API key from the Contextual AI app and documented at docs.contextual.ai, for document parsing, instruction-following reranking, generation grounded in supplied sources with inline attributions, and evaluating outputs against natural-language unit tests.5	Oct 2, 2026

Other products

Contextual AI: other products
Product	Kind	Documented delivery and access	Reviewed
Contextual AI platform (Agent Composer) (external site: contextual.ai)	Enterprise software	Web application at app.contextual.ai with Python and TypeScript/JavaScript SDKs and APIs for building agents and managing datastores; deployable as multi-tenant SaaS, a dedicated cloud instance, or a private VPC deployment.4	Oct 2, 2026

Cataloged artifacts

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Model families (1)

Contextual AI RerankerModel family

Model releases (1)

Contextual AI Reranker v2 2BModel releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight

Notable documented facts

In August 2025 Contextual AI released Contextual AI Reranker v2 in 1B, 2B, and 6B sizes, with quantized versions, as open weights on Hugging Face under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license; managed versions are offered through its API.6 7

Open positions

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Official careers

What this catalog does not know

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Founding date: not documented in the sources reviewed.

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U.S. eligibility

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Eligible · basis: U.S. headquarters

Contextual AI's privacy notice (last updated February 25, 2026) names Contextual AI, Inc. and gives its postal address as 150 W Evelyn Ave, Suite 200, Mountain View, California, USA. Its terms of use name Contextual AI, Inc., choose California law with arbitration in San Francisco, and direct notices to "our headquarters". The pages reviewed do not state the state of incorporation.2 1

Assessed Oct 2, 2026

Eligibility policy

Sources

1.
Terms of Use | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)
Contextual AI, Inc. · Official page · published Aug 26, 2025 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026
2.
Privacy Policy | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)
Contextual AI, Inc. · Official page · published Feb 25, 2026 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026
3.
Company | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)
Contextual AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026
4.
Platform | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)
Contextual AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026
5.
Component APIs | Contextual AI (external site: contextual.ai)
Contextual AI · Official page · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026
6.
Contextual AI Reranker v2 (blog post) (external site: contextual.ai)
Contextual AI · Announcement · published Aug 27, 2025 · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026
7.
ContextualAI/ctxl-rerank-v2-instruct-multilingual-2b model card (external site: huggingface.co)
Contextual AI · Model card · accessed Oct 2, 2026 · evidence reviewed Oct 2, 2026

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@misc{usasi_contextual_ai,
  author = {{USASI}},
  title = {Contextual AI},
  year = {2026},
  month = oct,
  howpublished = {\url{https://unitedstatesofamericasuperintelligence.com/companies/contextual-ai/}},
  note = {United States of America Superintelligence. Last updated 2026-10-02}
}

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