spot-notebook.png1024 × 1024How it works, and what we're learning
Guides for wiring Benchmates into something, and essays from building it. Why a knowledge base measures how much and real intelligence measures how fast, and why having dates is not the same as understanding time.
How the knowledge base works
The typed graph underneath every idea, with two live client vaults you can look at. Why a relationship with a source on it beats a folder of documents.
ExplainerAnswer engines, and why sourced beats optimized
Search answers the question now instead of sending traffic. What that changes about being citable, and what it stops rewarding.
GuideIntegrations: what comes in, what goes out
Every research source the nightly pass reads, and every channel approved work publishes into. What each one gives us, and where it stops.
GuideHow a night runs, pass by pass
What happens while the office is closed: every pass in the order it fires, what each one writes, and what a pass does when it comes back empty.
GuideThe MCP server
Reach your live search demand, sentiment and social data from the Claude app you already use, alongside the markdown wiki you already keep.
GuideWhere your data goes
What we collect, which machine holds it, who can read a given row, and the things this page deliberately does not claim.
A timestamp is not time
Why having dates is not the same as understanding change, and why ranking by size finds the dying thing while missing the emerging one.
EssayWhy our pricing is flat
What a per-token bill actually measures, and why somebody has to carry the variance. We would rather it were us.
Nothing published yet. The pages above are the whole of it for now.