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The best idea
in living
memory.
Throw in a note, a PDF, a URL. Watch connections form across everything you and your team have ever read, written, or discussed.
01 / The problem
Research doesn't
compound.
Every tool treats every project as isolated. Your 50th article starts from zero, just like your first.
Cold start
Every piece starts from zero. Prior research is buried in browser tabs, old Google Docs, forgotten PDFs. You've done the work before — you just can't find it.
Flat search
You get a list of results. Ten blue links. No relationships, no structure, no "how does this connect to what I covered last month."
No receipts
You've read 200 sources. Readers see zero of them. No way to show your work without a footnote graveyard nobody clicks.
02 / How it works
Three steps to
structured research.
Drop anything, hit Discover
A half-formed note. A PDF. A chat transcript. A URL. Start from whatever you have — Crumpled pulls in related articles, reports, and public records to build a knowledge graph around it. Structure from scratch.
Research with full context
Chat with Claude backed by your entire graph. Every question you ask, every source you add, every note you take makes the graph richer. Your 50th conversation draws on all 49 before it.
Publish your graph
Export an interactive snapshot. Embed in your Substack, link from YouTube descriptions, drop in a tweet reply. Every source clickable, every connection explorable.
I think the same PE firms keep showing up in both datasets — acquire, cut staff, extract. Which ones overlap between the nursing home complaints and hospital acquisitions?
Three firms overlap across both datasets. Cerberus Capital appears in 14 CMS complaints (staffing deficiencies) and acquired 3 hospitals through Steward Health Care. Your March article on ER closures covered Steward's Springfield closure — that finding contradicts their SEC filing claim of “maintained service levels.”
Apollo Global shows in 6 complaints — through that subsidiary, I found HHS inspection records you hadn't linked yet connecting them to a network of rehab facilities in Florida. Three facilities share a compliance officer with a Cerberus-owned home in Tampa.
The ProPublica series you saved in March covers Cerberus specifically — their staffing model cuts reinforce the pattern in the CMS data...
I think the Nosferatu imagery was deliberately political — monster mythology gets repurposed for political ends. What threads connect across my sources?
Your Nosferatu production notes document how Murnau adapted Stoker's Dracula with a specific visual language — through that connection, your Weimar politics sources show the same imagery was recycled almost immediately into propaganda about outside threats. Your note on Weimar propaganda posters, which I found through the Nosferatu connection, directly reinforces the argument in your February essay.
Your gothic literature survey flags a pattern going back centuries: the vampire as foreign invader, the werewolf as enemy within. But your folklore sources actually contradict the “fixed archetype” reading — they show these mappings shift with each generation.
The survey says archetypes persist; the folklore data says they mutate. That tension might be your essay's central argument...
03 / Features
Built for the
research process.
Every source, conversation, and draft makes the next one stronger.
Discover
Seed graphs from topics. News archives, public records, reports, prior coverage. No cold start.
Source provenance
Every claim traces to its origin document, page, paragraph. Click any insight, see exactly where it came from.
Public snapshots
Share interactive research graphs. Embed in Substack, blogs, tweets. Readers explore your sources visually.
Compound research
Your 50th piece draws on everything from the first 49. Prior investigations inform new ones automatically.
Collaborate
Shared graphs for newsrooms, research teams, and co-authors. Contribute sources, split threads, merge findings.
Private by default
Your research is yours. Sources aren't shared or used to train models. Full ownership of your data.
04 / Who it's for
For people who
read widely and write deeply.
You read across history, economics, philosophy, and culture. Your best work connects ideas no one else sees together. The graph tracks every thread so you don't have to hold it all in your head.
50 sources become one narrative. Film history connects to political theory connects to sociology. The graph shows structure, flags gaps, and generates source lists for your description box.
Court filings, public records, interview transcripts. See how a name in one document connects to an entity in another. Share a graph across a newsroom — one reporter's FOIA becomes another's lead.
05 / Publish
Share your research,
not just your conclusions.
Export an interactive graph for any piece you publish. Readers explore your sources, trace your reasoning, and verify your claims. One link replaces a wall of footnotes.
Embed in Substack posts. Link from YouTube descriptions. Drop in tweet replies. Every published graph is a live demonstration of your rigor — and an invitation to explore deeper.
Published source graph
The Architecture of Control: How City Design Shapes Who Belongs
by Maya Torres · The Long View · 18 min read
Your research
should compound.
Start with structure. Build on everything. Show your work.
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