Ideaflow – Building the Giant Global Graph

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Jacob Cole
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Ideaflow – Building the Giant Global Graph

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Overview

Ideaflow.io came from research at the Software Agents and Decentralized Information Groups at MIT (creators of ConceptNet / RDF), and raised over $11M from top VCs including First Round Capital, Naval, and 8VC. Our company mission is to build an open, worldwide, collaborative knowledge graph system, and interfaces to seamlessly interact with it. We're building Ray Kurzweil’s vision for a “shared neocortex in the cloud” that AI’s and humans alike can leverage to augment their intelligence, and to collaborate to solve the world’s hardest problems. We're huge fans of Ben Goertzel's work & are working with the HERMES team on MeTTa/MORK integration. SingularityNET is a natural partnership.

RFP Guidelines

Advanced knowledge graph tooling for AGI systems

Complete & Awarded
  • Type SingularityNET RFP
  • Total RFP Funding $350,000 USD
  • Proposals 39
  • Awarded Projects 5
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SingularityNET
Apr. 16, 2025

This RFP seeks the development of advanced tools and techniques for interfacing with, refining, and evaluating knowledge graphs that support reasoning in AGI systems. Projects may target any part of the graph lifecycle — from extraction to refinement to benchmarking — and should optionally support symbolic reasoning within the OpenCog Hyperon framework, including compatibility with the MeTTa language and MORK knowledge graph. Bids are expected to range from $10,000 - $200,000.

Proposal Description

Our Team

  • Jacob Cole: CEO/Founder
  • Cody Hergenroeder: Product + Ops
  • Ridhi Kantelal: Ops
  • Eden Chan: Eng
  • Wendell Yamada: QA
  • Samuel Xu: Eng
  • Piyush Jha: Eng

Company Name (if applicable)

Ideaflow

Project details

Ideaflow.io – read more on our website.

**Ideaflow Main Demo Video Link: https://ideaflow.short.gy/singularitynetgrant **

We’re creating an ecosystem for humans and machines to work together to solve the world’s most important problems – starting with a notebook that augments your intelligence. Founded in 2015, Ideaflow has raised over $11M in VC funding from tier one VCs and has users ranging from top financial institutions, to biology research labs, to personal productivity enthusiasts. We've launched best-in-class automated knowledge graph-based research tools and visualization products, a leading notetaking app (weekly highlight on ProductHunt), and the only hypergraph editor in text format we’re aware of. These all work synergistically towards our larger goal of creating a collective brain for humanity. We come from a background of classic symbolic AI research and see Ideaflow as a frame for OpenCog, LLMs, and humans, to all work together to solve problems too large to fit in any individual's head – and ultimately to build ASI. 

There are millions of scientists trying to cure the likes of AIDS and Alzheimer’s. Maybe the cure is currently separated in different people’s heads. How can we design the web so that these half-formed solutions can come together? ‍ - Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Creator of the Web

In solution to this, in 2007, Sir Tim Berners-Lee proposed the Giant Global Graph as the original "Web 3.0". The technology is finally here to implement this vision, and we’re doing it. The key insight we rely on is that insights in people’s notebooks, connections between biological pathways in scientific papers, and data corporations buy from providers all implicitly comprise a graph database. Our technology is the end-to-end pipeline that elevates that data into a unified global graph that can be queried. This entails integrating with external data sources as well as building our own interfaces to capture information as well as surface useful connections just in time.

 

To date, we have launched as products: 

Ideaflow Thoughtstream – the fastest thought-capture layer ever created for humans (we think); an infinite stream of your thoughts that automatically becomes a structured knowledge base. Think Cursor for Obsidian, built with very precise design choices to keep the user in flow. >1M monthly user events.

Ideaflow AI GraphSearch – An automated research tool which creates and visualizes knowledge graphs on any topic by combining internal and Web data, allowing the user, and their collaborators to progressively add more information to the graph with successive queries. Think Cursor for knowledge graphs. We've deployed this at top financial institutions.

Ideaflow Superconnector – An AI agent that runs on the global graph built by the above two tools to suggest people and ideas that should be connected to each other. It’s been a hit at organizations including Harvard Business School and conferences like the Draper Summit.

 

Our current priority is building an integration of all of the above into a unified platform, GlobalBrain.ai, that will ultimately perform all the end-to-end functions of a “mind for humanity”, that allows agents to collaborate, and has various integrations/endpoints into existing human and artificial intelligence systems. The basis for this is Ideaflow HyperOutline, an outliner interface that is frictionless to use like Workflowy, Roam, or Obsidian, but is a true hypergraph under the hood, and can support plugins for various agents – like Superconnector, LLMs MCPs, MeTTa/MORK systems, and the outputs of the HERMES RFP (with whom we are collaborating).

One test for success of this platform is to form a system that can pass what we proposed a new Turing Test for AGIs. See paper that co-founder Jacob Cole wrote for Marvin Minsky's class at MIT https://gestaltexplanation.jacobcole.net/, along with Holden Lee, who studied with Fields Medalist Tim Gowers, creator of the massively collaborative theorem proving project Polymath. A further test will be to deploy our system to host a future Polymath project that involves both AI and human mathematicians.

Moreover, within GlobalBrain we are building what we call an "issue tracker for society". It is a place that aspires to track all of the open problems in the world and connect people who care about similar problems to collaborate on resolving them, or, in some cases, discover the shared root causes behind them. We ultimately see this as the backbone for a motivational scheme for ASI to help solve the world’s problems. By building the aspirational graph of human intentions to help prioritize and connect efforts, and linking it to ASI-level reasoning and planning, we can feasibly achieve rapid progress. In the way, an acceleration of AI can help inform and inspire an explosion of human flourishing.

The goals and roadmaps of Ideaflow and SingularityNET are strongly overlapping and we would love to have a conversation about how we can best work together.

A major challenge for neurosymbolic AGI, and Hyperon in particular, is to provide adequate tools to visualize, optimize, and introspect large knowledge and reasoning graphs to make them into effective planning tools to solve the problems they're analyzing. This is one place Ideaflow can begin to help and we’d love to discuss more. We’re currently collaborating with the HERMES team to do exactly this. The Milestone plan lays out first steps towards empowering Hyperon Developers with sufficiently powerful real-time tools for thinking about how AGI systems think.

Background & Experience

  • Jacob Cole: MIT & Oxford collective intelligence researcher, founded Ideaflow in 2015 out of research in the MIT Software Agents and MIT Decentralized Information Groups. Prev. founded Hacksphere, a network of hackers and intellectuals; members who met directly through the network have raised >$200M together.
  • Cody Hergenroeder: Symbolic Systems at Stanford
  • Ridhi Kantelal: Oxford
  • Eden Chan: UWaterloo
  • Wendell Yamada: Veteran Project Manager/former founder
  • Samuel Xu: UWaterloo
  • Piyush Jha: Founded first Paypal to Ethereum Exchange

Describe the particulars.

Jacob Cole was housemates with Alex Peake (from Hermes team); met in 2012. Found Ben Goertzel's work via mutual friend Joscha Bach. Worked on graph-based AI at MIT since 2013 as Ideaflow's thesis.

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  • Total Milestones

    2

  • Total Budget

    $50,000 USD

  • Last Updated

    28 May 2025

Milestone 1 - Basic AIRIS/HERMES Integration

Description

Partner with Magi / the Neoterics team to contribute to the HERMES RFP. The engagement centers on a flagship integration between the HERMES RFP and Ideaflow providing a human interface to visualize and alter the Neoterics and AIRIS agent showcasing end-to-end knowledge ingestion reasoning and visualization. As the Neoterics and AIRIS agent analyzes a situation to form a plan its knowledge is incomplete and it has unanswered questions. These need to be investigated through curiosity-driven experimentation so its plan must be revised until enough is known to complete or change the agent’s goals. Ideaflow visualizes the agent’s internal process and allows the human to edit it.

Deliverables

Integration Milestone – Stand-up a bi-directional bridge that: - Ingests HERMES artifacts into Ideaflow. - Publishes curated Ideaflow graphs back to HERMES / OpenCog Hyperon. - Reasoning Showcase – Demonstrate an agent that: - Accepts domain knowledge (as Ideaflow graphs). - Reasons over that knowledge inside AtomSpace + Hyperon. - Produces an actionable execution plan as a graph. Visualization – Ensure the resulting plan is explorable in Ideaflow’s interactive UI (nodes edges metadata etc.).

Budget

$24,999 USD

Success Criterion

End-to-End Flow Works - A goal graph and its supporting knowledge are pulled from Ideaflow, converted to AtomSpace, reasoned over, and returned as an execution-plan graph—all in one CI run with no manual nudges. - Step-One Drill-Down - The returned plan must include Step 1 expanded into at least three valid sub-steps (child nodes) that explicitly reference imported knowledge objects. - Each sub-step carries: owner, dependency, and priority metadata fields. - Data Round-Trip Integrity ≥ 99 % - Hash diff (Ideaflow ⇒ AtomSpace ⇒ Ideaflow) shows ≤ 1 % semantic or structural drift on a 1 k-node test graph. - Time-to-Insight ≤ 30 s - From “Run” click to first graph render in Ideaflow UI. - Qualitative Review ≥ 4 / 5 - Stakeholders rate the clarity and usefulness of the Step-One breakdown in a structured survey (coverage, logical ordering, actionable detail). - Extensibility Hook Present - Codebase contains a documented next_steps() stub proving where additional iterations (Step 2-N expansions) will plug in.

Milestone 2 - ETL and Realtime

Description

Build the data-movement layer that shuttles HERMES artifacts into—­and back out of—Ideaflow’s graph tool-chain supporting streaming to visualize symbolic AI reasoning in real time. Support realtime streaming of goals from the Global Graph into AIRIS agents motivational frameworks. Support imports from various graph data formats – RDF JSON and unstructured formats e.g. text files scientific papers human-made notes and automatically extract graph-like data.

Deliverables

ETL Pipeline – One-shot and batch ingestion of HERMES data into Ideaflow’s native graph schema. • In-scope: full real-time streaming • MORK Bridge – Bidirectional converters between Ideaflow sub-graphs and MORK / AtomSpace atoms. • In-scope: advanced reasoning logic – inference of graph edges both those within HERMES such as causal links and consideration links and external to HERMES e.g. inferring potential drug candidates from biological pathways of a disease. • Visualization Stub – Prototype UI that renders causal statements from HERMES in near-real-time (simple polling). • Out-of-scope: production-grade real-time dashboard.

Budget

$25,001 USD

Success Criterion

DELIVERABLES 1. Batch ETL Scripts • Python/Go adapters pull HERMES JSON, transform to Ideaflow nodes/edges, and write to the graph store. • ≥ 90 % of the test corpus ingests cleanly; CI job passes. 2. MORK Interface Library • Functions to serialize Ideaflow sub-graphs → MORK atoms and deserialize back. • Round-trip test shows no semantic drift. 3. Async Processing Queue • Lightweight message queue (e.g., Redis) so ETL jobs run asynchronously now and can switch to streaming later. 4. Visualization Prototype • Minimal web component that updates every 5 seconds, displaying causal statements as a node-link diagram. • Accepts MeTTa-compatible triples. 5. Technical Note (≈ 2 pages) • Architecture diagram, API spec, and punch-list for turning “near-real-time” into true streaming in Phase 2.

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