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The Lab — Plugging into Intelligence

Conversational AI, put to work.

Welcome to the sandbox. These are the tools and experiments I'm building at the exact edge of the ideas explored in Emergence.

COMING SOON

An experiment in unbiased, conversational news

EmergentNews

A personal daily feed of top stories paired with Sophia—a conversational AI trained to trace any story back forty years to explain how it came to be.

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With Claude, inside the book

Continue the Conversation

The book ends, but the conversation doesn’t. Step into the same dialogue with Claude featured in Emergence. Pre-loaded with the book and ready for your questions.

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A CRM conversational intelligence layer

TraversalIQ

A reasoning layer that sits on top of your CRM, turning static records into living deal intelligence you can actually talk to.

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Why "Sophia"?

Did you know? Sophia is the Latin word for the deep, earned wisdom that Socrates prized. In EmergentNews, she acts as your historical anchor, stripping away modern bias by uncovering the root of how a story actually came to be.

Future Experiments

The Lab is constantly evolving as biological and synthetic intelligence blur closer together. Check back regularly for new code, open-source prompts, and live neural experiments.