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01 · The experiment

An ongoing experiment in attention

Blind Spot isn’t a ranking, a contest, or a list of “the best.” We don’t hand out awards, crown winners, or claim to know who will succeed.

In each issue we use an AI-assisted research process to look for people, projects, and ideas that seem more interesting, original, or impressive than their level of visibility would suggest.

The goal isn’t to find “the best.” It’s to find the things that make people who know the field stop for a second and ask:

“How did I not hear about this sooner?”

This issue focuses on independent AI builders. We chose this because it’s a field moving fast enough that real craft and judgment are easily buried under hype — and the gap between who’s building something real and who’s being noticed is unusually wide.

Some of these picks may be fully justified. Some may be completely wrong. That’s exactly why this experiment exists.

02 · Discoveries · 02 this issue

The blind spots

Mori
D · 01AI Infrastructure · Agent Memory
Mori
Built by Fred Wood

The system detected a significant gap between the signals observed and current visibility.

Governed memory for AI coding agents — provenance, scope, rollback, and human promotion, not just a bigger vector store.

What stood out

Mori tackles a real, growing problem: agents need memory, but ungoverned memory contaminates work across projects. It appears unusually built-out relative to its public visibility — support across multiple coding-agent environments, and a clear theory of why shared memory fails.

The broader signal

This may not just be a developer tool. If the governed-memory model works, the same pattern could apply to law firms, research groups, and design studios — anywhere AI agents need institutional memory without carrying the wrong context into the wrong task.

View Mori on GitHub
github.com/fjwood69/mori
Your read on Mori
Foudinge
D · 02Applied AI · Knowledge Graphs
Foudinge
Mapping the French Culinary Universe · by Théophile Cantelobre

The system flagged a gap between the project’s reception and the builder signal behind it.

Structured relationships pulled from messy cultural text, turned into an explorable map of French food.

What stood out

This isn’t a clean “nobody noticed” case — the technical community did take note. But people saw a clever graph of restaurants and may have missed the builder signal: Cantelobre took a messy cultural corpus, extracted structured relationships from unstructured writing, compared models, controlled costs, handled hallucination, cleaned entities, and shipped an explorable interface.

The broader signal

It may have been underpriced because it looked like a charming culinary side project rather than a repeatable applied-AI method. The same workflow could scale to film crews, galleries, hospitals, or academic labs — any field where hidden relationship networks are buried inside public text.

Read the Foudinge writeup
theophilec.github.io
Your read on Foudinge
03 · Transparency

How this issue was made

Public information only — every signal here is drawn from openly available sources. No private data, no insider access.
AI-assisted research — candidates are surfaced and pre-screened with AI tooling across public signals.
Human review — a person reads, sanity-checks, and writes every entry before it ships.
Not investment advice — nothing here is a recommendation to buy, fund, hire, or invest.
Not endorsements — inclusion is an observation, not a stamp of approval or affiliation.
Quality relative to visibility — selections reflect apparent quality measured against current attention, not absolute ranking.
04 · Your read

Think we got one wrong?

This is a public experiment, which means you’re part of the method. Cast your verdict on each pick above — and tell us who we’re still missing.

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