Create a public wiki, UI, and database for every single person in a field (such as “EA” or “AI Safety”)
- Upload: Have an admin interface to upload a csv of names (+ optionally emails), and to write in the description of the source of those people emails, for context (eg “attendees of Manifest 2025”)
- To start, seed it with the following people:
- Austin Chen
- Rachel Weinberg
- Oliver Habryka
- Rachel Shu
- Profile: For each person, make it easy to run an agent which scrapes the internet and constructs a public profile for that person
- the profile should have an accessible slug, eg for “Alice Smith” ⇒
/p/alice-smith
- the profile should have a 1 sentence bio, a couple paragraph summary, and a long (maybe 1000 word) wikipedia-style article
- the profile should link to their most common web presences
- the profile should have a light amount of structured data, including
- primary org they work at
- other org affiliations
- general field affiliations eg “technical AI safety”, “agent foundations”, “EA fieldbuilding”
- (don’t canonicalize these tags yet, just use plaintext)
- The admin interface and code setup should make it easy to kick off a batch job to construct profiles for eg 100 people at a time.
- Auth: individuals can sign in to claim a profile & edit it
- UI: on the homepage, start with a table view + in-memory search over names, and some reasonable filtering options
Design constraints:
- Should be fast. Use InstantDB.
- At the start, should work easily with 10k+ people
- Start with a simple theme; we’ll modify this later
Future work (consider while designing the system, but don’t implement yet)
- AI Chat: Create a general AI chat interface that supports a variety of features, including:
- pasting in a listing (eg job listing, or request for conference speakers), and then returns a table of potential matches
- helping construct an outreach message to specific candidates, in your own voice
- identifying the most thoughtful way to reach a specific candidate (eg shared contacts)
- Digital Twin: “speak with a digital twin of [Alice Smith]”, a feature from her profile page
Names
codename “Bagel”, official name to be chosen later