Your idea stopped learning the day you wrote it down
The world kept moving; the document didn't. Gravitrop breaks your idea into claims that can actually be checked, keeps checking them against what's happening out there, and brings back what changed.
What you get, and what it costs to get it
Above the line is the product. Below it is the machinery nobody should have to think about. Pick anything up top and the ground opens under it.
Intake, arbiter, decomposer
A raw idea can't be checked against anything, so the first job is to turn it into statements that can be. The arbiter decides whether there's enough to work with and asks for what's missing; the decomposer breaks the result into a project and a tree of claims.
- idea
- arbiter
- interview gaps
- decomposer
- project + claims
Collect, interpret, match, judge
The state you read in one glance is the end of a long chain. Sources are polled on their own cadence, raw items become facts, facts get embedded and matched against the claims they could plausibly touch, and only the survivors reach the judge. Most facts never touch anything — that is the expected outcome, not a failure.
- sources
- raw items
- interpret
- embed
- match
- judge
- signal
- state
Signals pile up until someone has to choose
A single hit isn't a decision. Signals accumulate against a claim, and when the pile is heavy enough it opens as an item on the desk. Your answer is recorded, not just displayed: a rejected signal stops counting toward the claim's state, so the tree reflects what you actually believe.
- signals
- agenda item
- your decision
- state recomputed
One rule decides whether you're interrupted
Interrupting a person is expensive, so the bar is explicit rather than clever: the verdict has to be contradicts and the strength has to clear 0.3. Everything quieter than that waits for the weekly digest instead of buzzing your phone at midnight.
- signal
- verdict = contradicts
- strength ≥ 0.3
- push
- else: weekly digest
Six lenses, one claim, a spending cap
The swarm never wanders off on its own. You point it at one quiet claim and it searches the web from six fixed angles at once; the findings join the shared raw material and get judged against that claim alone.
- disproving numbers
- regulation
- competitors
- adjacent market
- confirming evidence
- expert opinion
The search step is capped — $0.60 per run by default — though today that number counts search spend only: reading and judging the findings isn't in it yet.
River
The same river in six conditions. Only one of them moves on its own — hover any of the others and it will show you what it does.
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dam the pipeline stalled — nothing is being judged at all
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dispute signals split: some confirm the claim, some strike it
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erosion new facts keep hitting the same claim, one after another
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threshold a decision has piled up and is waiting on you
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shallow quiet for a while — nothing has come in
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flowing nothing is arguing with what you assumed, for now
Silence is a diagnosis here too, not a broken pipeline.
Where this stands
Not a prototype on slides. Here is exactly what runs today and what doesn't — including the part we'd rather not advertise.