- 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.
Apr 14, 2026
Sodium-ion is the new lithium-iron-phosphate
A short literature review across 312 papers indexed in Spark.
· spark
12 min
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Mar 22, 2026
Claim-chart automation, honestly
What Lamp gets right, and what it still gets wrong.
· lamp
6 min
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Mar 03, 2026
Reading patents is reading in the dark
On naming a product after the most important object on a researcher's desk.
· lamp
4 min
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Feb 19, 2026
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.
· spark
9 min
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Feb 02, 2026
We don't ship 'AI features'. We ship tools.
An argument against the current style of generative-AI product design.
· company
5 min
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Jan 18, 2026
Building a search engine for prior art
Why semantic search alone is insufficient, and what we use instead.
· lamp
11 min
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Jan 04, 2026
First-week notes
What we're optimizing for in year one.
· company
3 min
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Dec 12, 2025
The flow-battery literature is a mess
Indexing 800 papers taught us how the field reports (and doesn't report) results.
· spark
10 min
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