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Capital deployed against capital.
23 times over.

a23one is a 23-product, one-network system built to compound. With initial grants from Google Cloud and Cloudflare, work began in '23 that eventually led to a more ambitious vision; building product that builds product. The guiding belief is that demand for product will scale with the ability to produce said product.

Across five acts from Genesis to Terminus, each act lifts the next: product that powers product, product that builds product, product that owns product. Two hallmark consumer applications have emerged along the way — brainful, which expands the capacity to learn and do, and tidalsight, which produces high-performance financial portfolios generating outsized returns. 500K+ lines of code power the network, processing 4 million monthly requests with thousands of weekly active users.

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Product

0/a23
I · 100–101

Genesis

The origins of the network.

The introductory product: brainful, a next generation thought processor for learning and research that amplifies R&D for new products.

win '22

brainful

heritage
Integrated Thinking Environment

An integrated thinking environment — where writing, research, and discussion live together. 75+ orchestrated AI models, 114 languages, millions of monthly requests.

0 loc
0 req/mo
II · 102–108

Foundation

product that powers product

The digital plumbing powering the next generation of AI-first product.

win '25

llmshield

heritage
open-source LLM privacy layer

With growing concerns of exposing sensitive data to third-party services, llmshield is a context-preserving open-source Python library for preventing PII leakage in AI applications.

PyPI published
win '26

cailos

heritage
Decision Engine for Agentic AI

Spun out of brainful's AI layer to meet growing demand for robust and fault-tolerant AI infrastructure. A single OpenAI-compatible API endpoint routing to dozens of LLM providers and endpoints.

0 providers
0 endpoints
win '26

polyembed

ascent
Intelligent Embeddings Infrastructure

Regular embeddings have limitations in security, privacy, and retrieval accuracy. polyembed aims to tackle all three through local inference, homomorphic embeddings, and systematic context injection for higher-accuracy retrieval.

Local inference
spr '26

tidalsight

ascent
Securities Analytics · AI

Securities analytics, insights, and ratings platform. Multi-agent AI continuously analyses fundamentals, social sentiment, and macro signals across equities, crypto, commodities, and currencies — delivering conviction-rated trading intelligence with integrated algorithmic execution.

0 securities tracked
Multi-Agent signals
spr '26

mlpotion

inception
No-code ML Platform

ML has been a traditionally gatekept field. mlpotion aims to democratise ML models by providing no-code end-to-end ML pipelines as a service. This allows you to distil AI or proprietary data into lightweight prediction models that are exposed as APIs or downloadable models.

0 models
REST deploy
spr '26

releasetape

inception
Unified User-Dev-Agent Documentation

As agentic development accelerates the volume of code shipped across a23one, the burden of release notes, documentation, and roadmap planning grows with it. releasetape automates all three — one-click setup per repository, continuous output.

Auto changelogs
AI proposals
spr '26

oburai

inception
Product Network Intelligence

Cross-product link intelligence and attribution. Every link across an organisation's network becomes a first-party data point. From tracking user journeys to understanding feature heatmaps, oburai helps teams and orgs make data-driven decisions for product.

Cross product
First-party analytics
IV · 116–122

Sovereignty

product that owns product

Where product holds its own capital.

7 slots remaining
V · 123

Terminus

the end of an era

The 23rd and terminatory product.

1 slot remaining