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Alpha Research

Open source, agentic knowledge bases for all of humanity's knowledge.

Y CombinatorSpring 2025ActiveB2BEngineering, Product and DesignMarket Research

What they do

Problem

Knowledge workers are bottlenecked by slow evidence discovery and hypothesis testing across large public datasets.

Solution

It provides open-source agentic knowledge bases that combine search/RAG with coding agents and filesystem tools to iteratively find evidence and run ad-hoc analyses.

Who it's for

Knowledge workers and researchers who need to search, synthesize, and analyze large corpora and public datasets.

Founders

Ryan Prendergast
Founder

hoarding knowledge @alpha research ryan-prendergast.com

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