First Look Demo Video
Background
We recently shipped federation for Kash. Your node can now join Pods with other Pulse nodes and create forum- or social-style threads of digests. Overmind builds on that foundation.
What is Overmind?
Overmind helps creators, social users, researchers, founders, and curious teams discover new people and topics from their own writing. Registered nodes stream embeddings (not raw posts) to Overmind, which maps a shared Knowledge Galaxy around a public anchor dataset.
You get People Search, outside-your-bubble recommendations, and one-click pickup groups that feel like LFG matchmaking in a video game. Invites arrive as highlights on your node. Cross-node downloads are vectors-only by default (owners keep the readable content). Embeddings aren’t designed to be reversible into natural language. Which adds to the fun - you never know exactly what someone said, just that it was closely related to what you said/what you're looking for.
Why Did Team Pulse Develop Overmind?
The last decade of “social” optimized for ads, not humans. Classifier stacks tuned for CPMs produce mediocre search and matchmaking, while coordinated brand/state pulses, bot farms, and engagement bait crowd out original work. High-quality user content gets quietly throttled.
Social’s original job was simple: help people find people. Overmind does exactly that.
How is Overmind’s Tech Better?
Instead of brittle classifiers that top out at a few hundred categories, Overmind uses a shared embedding space that comfortably represents millions of micro-topics. That lets us match on:
- Similarity (nearest neighbors)
- Distance (thoughtful outside-bubble jumps)
- Shape/size of your digest cloud (style, range, focus)
- Other strategies as we learn
Privacy & control, by default:
- Vectors-only across nodes unless you’re the owner
- Blocklists are enforced in invites
- Discoverability and friend-match flags you control
Why $20/month (no free tier)?
Free tiers bend products toward advertisers. We’re not doing that. At $20/month, your compute and memory are paid for by you, which keeps incentives clean. If the current Pulse stack isn’t yet worth that, tell us what’s missing and we’ll build until it is.
When does it come out?
Overmind passed its first internal QA this week.
- Internal Testing: ~2 weeks
- Limited rollout: late August
- General availability: mid-September
We’ll share early user wins at Twin Cities Startup Week in October.
