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Research, product thinking, and what we're learning.

AI Research7 min read

Why Your Data Should Pay You Back

Every search you run, every form you fill, every preference you express is generating value — for platforms that pay you nothing. We're building the infrastructure to change that.

April 18, 2026
AI Research9 min read

The Guidance Gap: Building AI That Mentors Instead of Just Answers

The difference between an AI that answers questions and one that actually improves your life is the difference between a search engine and a mentor. Most AI products are stuck at search engine.

April 18, 2026
Product6 min read

Designing Tempo: Time Management from First Principles

Most time management tools are built for productivity optimization. Tempo is built for something harder: helping people align how they spend their minutes with what they want from their decades.

April 14, 2026
AI Research8 min read

Responsible AI for High-Stakes Life Decisions

Most AI tools are built for low-stakes tasks. We're building for the moments that actually define a life — and that requires a fundamentally different approach to how models are prompted, constrained, and evaluated.

April 10, 2026
AI Research10 min read

The Kin Matching Algorithm: Objective Compatibility Scoring for Family Formation

We built a weighted compatibility engine across seven biological, psychological, and practical dimensions — not because family formation can be reduced to math, but because people deserve better than photos and gut feel when the stakes are this high.

April 5, 2026
AI Research7 min read

LLMs and Document Understanding at Human Scale

Insurance policies, wills, health records, and lease agreements are among the most consequential documents in a person's life. They're also among the most unread. We're using large language models to change that — carefully.

March 28, 2026
Company5 min read

Why We Built 16 Products Instead of One

The conventional startup advice is to do one thing extremely well. We're doing 16 things — deliberately, and for reasons we think hold up.

March 20, 2026
Product5 min read

Solving the Cold Start Problem for On-Demand Expertise

Aide is a marketplace for on-demand expert sessions — lawyers, therapists, tutors, financial advisors, coaches. Every marketplace has a cold start problem. Here's how we're thinking about ours.

March 15, 2026