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Open source, agentic knowledge bases for all of humanity's knowledge.
Alpha Research builds open source agentic knowledge bases. Our mission is to help knowledge workers work 100x faster. We launched and open sourced our first platform, Alpha Book on a mirror of the Project Gutenberg dataset (75,000 books). Knowledge work is bottlenecked in two key ways: finding evidence and testing hypotheses. We make both 100x faster. We extend keyword search and RAG with general coding agents, which use filesystem tools like ripgrep and reason iteratively to find broad evidence. Coding agents also write ad-hoc scripts to label datasets and test hypotheses. Our timeline is simple: repeat Alpha Book across every public dataset of humanity's knowledge. Next we'll launch Alpha Econ with US Census, BLS, NBER, etc datasets. Alpha Justice with US Supreme Court Cases, and so on. We support museums, research libraries, historical societies, and archives. We also do custom integration work for enterprise.
Alpha Research positions itself as an open source solution for knowledge bases intended for broad humanity. It emphasizes agentic, open source knowledge bases as a universal resource.
The product provides open source knowledge bases designed to be accessible for all humanity, suggesting a framework or platform for building and hosting knowledge bases with open-source foundations.
Who it’s for: Organizations or individuals interested in open source knowledge bases and collaborative knowledge management.
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