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Work / Syndesmos

Prototype

Syndesmos

A research tool that maps how a body of literature connects, and shows the gaps no single paper fills.

Live at syndesmos.ai8,000+ papers, one mapEvery answer traces to sourceBuilt with Claude Code
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Syndesmos knowledge map
$5M · 18motypical review
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2 dayswith Syndesmos

In its one real trial, a literature review that would have cost about $5 million and taken roughly 18 months compressed to two days, verified by a domain expert.

What building it taught me

I build with AI, and the craft is knowing where to slow down. Prototyping fast let me skip two decisions I paid for later, the stack and security. I retrofitted because speed had skipped it, so now I decide who I’m building for and what they need first.

Researchers need their data secure and every result auditable, and that requirement drove the whole design. Every categorization traces back to its origin text, the pipeline is , and I chose Hetzner for EU data-protection.

Where it stands

It’s live at syndesmos.ai, and now being shaped into an NIH R21 grant with UW-Madison faculty for drug-safety signal detection.

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