You already know how to find interesting people. You browse Instagram, spot a compelling project, check out who made it, follow the thread to their collaborators, maybe take a note or share a link to yourself. It works — but it's slow, scattered, and limited to one platform at a time. The best connections get lost in the scroll.
What if we took that instinct — your natural way of discovering people through their work and connections — and built a system around it?
We start with a small group of people and organizations you already find interesting. From there, we map outward: who are their collaborators? What projects have they worked on? Who else was involved? We build a rich, interconnected network of people, organizations, and projects — drawn entirely from the public web.
Then we give you an experience designed around how you actually explore. One person at a time. A quick glance — their photo, bio, a visual snapshot of their work. If something catches your eye, go deeper: their projects, their connections, their world. When you're done, move on.
No forms to fill out. No preferences to set. You just browse the way you already do — and the system learns from how you browse.
You give us a starting point — roughly 10 people and 10 organizations you're already drawn to. We research outward from there, finding the people in their orbit: collaborators, fellow board members, co-creators, adjacent artists and builders. For each person, we go deep — not just a name and a link, but a real portrait: who they are, what they've made, what their work looks like, who they work with.
The result is a private, curated network of hundreds of people — all connected by real relationships and shared work.
The app presents one person at a time, modeled on your natural browsing style. At a glance: their photo, a short bio, a visual grid of their work. If you're curious, expand into their projects, their links, their collaborators. If one of their collaborators catches your eye, follow that thread.
When you've seen enough, you can:
But we're also paying attention to the quieter signals. How long you spent. What you expanded. Whether you followed a collaborator three levels deep or glanced and moved on. Over time, these patterns tell us more than any checklist could.
As you browse, the app learns what resonates. Not what you say you want — what your attention actually gravitates toward. People who match those patterns start rising to the top. The network stops feeling random and starts feeling curated — by you, without you having to articulate the criteria.
Eventually, we have something remarkable: a detailed portrait of your taste. Not in the abstract — grounded in real data, real patterns, real people.
We turn this into something beautiful. Think of it as a personal editorial piece — rich data visualizations, maps of your network, insights about the patterns in who you're drawn to. What fields, what geographies, what types of projects. It evolves as you use the system, getting richer and more revealing over time.
This isn't a dashboard. It's a story about your taste, told through data, designed to be as compelling to look at as the people it describes.
We build the network from your seeds, create the browsing experience, and instrument every interaction.
What you'll experience: A working app where you can explore real people, one at a time, and start telling the system what resonates.
The system starts working for you. Better matches surface faster. You can keep feeding it new people (even a screenshot works — we'll figure out who it is). The network grows and sharpens.
What you'll experience: The feeling that the app "gets" you. The people it shows you are more interesting, more aligned, more surprising in the right ways.
We generate your personal discovery portrait — a beautiful, evolving artifact that reveals the patterns in your taste and the depth of the network we've built.
What you'll experience: Something gorgeous to explore, share, and be proud of. A mirror and a map.
That's it. The system does the rest.