- writing

Notes from the team.

What we're learning, what we're shipping, and what we wish other research tools did differently. Also occasional literature reviews from the corpora we index.

Sodium-ion is the new lithium-iron-phosphate

A short literature review across 312 papers indexed in Spark.

Claim-chart automation, honestly

What Lamp gets right, and what it still gets wrong.

Reading patents is reading in the dark

On naming a product after the most important object on a researcher's desk.

What 'energy density' actually means

A primer on Wh/kg, Wh/L, and why the cells in your phone are different from the ones in your car.

We don't ship 'AI features'. We ship tools.

An argument against the current style of generative-AI product design.

Building a search engine for prior art

Why semantic search alone is insufficient, and what we use instead.

First-week notes

What we're optimizing for in year one.

The flow-battery literature is a mess

Indexing 800 papers taught us how the field reports (and doesn't report) results.

- get in touch

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