IdeaFlow

A human-AI hybrid “shared brain” for organizations

We’re a startup from MIT that came out of research working to extend the human mind into the computer. Our core product is a “shared brain” for organizations -- a human-AI hybrid Web platform that enables teams of analysts to collaboratively create, visualize, and analyze networks of information, both manually and by integrating previously stagnant data sources. We’ve raised $1.8M from top angels including Jim Pallotta, the CTO of Reddit and the director of the MIT Media Lab, and are in private beta with several major customers. These include Silicon Valley Bank, with whom we recently closed a $200k/year annual recurring revenue deal. The product has implications far beyond finance, however. Right now, knowledge in organizations is siloed. This is the root of many problems. For instance, in research (abstractly speaking), one paper might say “a=b” and another might say “b=c” but unless you read the right pair of papers you’ll never realize that “a=c”. Moreover, in large organizations, people with related ideas can’t find each other. Similar problems plague many domains of analytical work. IdeaFlow has piqued the interest of Fields Medalist mathematician/collaborative theorem proving pioneer Tim Gowers, Category Theory for the Sciences author David Spivak, and NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology). Video Previews: -Graph view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7kEWftAUsY -Bullet view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0JGfIYcEGw The reason this single piece of software applies across domains is that it’s a tool to augment a fundamental part of human intelligence. Our goal is to create a low-friction, smart notebook that allows you to capture insights like they exist in your brain: interconnected. It’s a practical implementation of the sort of personal/group knowledge base system AI thinkers have dreamed of since Vannevar Bush proposed the Memex . This will not only be a boon for those fed up with Evernote, but the first step towards creating a platform for collaborative cognition, which we see to be a necessary step towards automating cognition. We are a 3 person team, are based in the San Francisco Bay Area (but may take remote), and are looking for someone who is an absolute machine at JavaScript to play a major role in our company. We’re one of the most intense React applications on the Web and have needed to go as far as submitting PRs to ImmutableJS to build our platform (for this library https://github.com/IdeaFlowCo/evolving-immutable). We’re also hiring an iOS engineer who wants to build the best-ever, low-friction personal notes app. If you’re obsessed with mind mapping/keeping lists of ideas/personal information management, are into building communities/connecting people with related ideas, or are frustrated with the paradigm of Google for performing thorough research on the Web, we would love to talk with you regardless. We’d love to build the community of people on our wavelength, and are happy to answer questions. Contact us at [email protected]