We accidentally built a brain.
Okay, not literally. It's software, and nowhere near as capable as the real thing. But it kept reaching for the same tricks the brain uses, and we never planned that.
We set out to build a better knowledge graph for legal and drilling documents. We ended up with software analogues of spreading activation, episodic memory, recognition memory, memory consolidation, executive function, self-checking, and fast-vs-slow reasoning. Each one got added to kill one specific bug. A wrong answer. A missing clause. A number it invented. Only when we stepped back did the parallel to neuroscience get unsettling.
For context: we're an eight-month-old startup. This didn't come from a research lab. It came from not being able to sleep while our own system gave answers we couldn't trust.
We benchmarked six knowledge graph frameworks on the same data, same LLM, same embeddings: LightRAG, HippoRAG, PathRAG, OG-RAG, Graphify, PageIndex. And ours.
