Day 53 of #100daysofnetworks

Company Launch! Verdant Intelligence, GrooveSeeker, Cypher Continued

Hi everyone,

As always, for me, it feels like a year has gone by since the last article I wrote. Less than two weeks ago, I wrote an article on getting started with Cypher and got set up for that series, and then right on time, life decided to throw another curveball. This year has been a bit ridiculous, but I am nimble, unstoppable, and learning a lot.

I had just accepted a new job in October, and one month into the new job, it went away without warning. That is ok. I have learned to expect this kind of thing from life. This isn’t my first rodeo. I am well prepared.

I have learned one thing in my career: your learning is your safety net. That is part of the reason why I write and build in public. If you do that, it is undeniable what you know, and you can return to your previous work for inspiration and as a reference whenever you need it.

It was too short of a stint for me to develop any feelings. Bygones. Moving on.

Because I have two much more important things to announce!

Verdant Intelligence is ALIVE

Since August, I have been designing my own company, Verdant Intelligence. It even went through its own journey, for naming (Teacup Labs, maybe another), vision, all of that, and I couldn’t really talk about it, because I needed to protect the name.

Verdant Intelligence is ALIVE. My company is now registered. I will talk more about it, as we go. It’s enough for now to say that Verdant Intelligence is a company built around a core technology, streaming intelligence. It is very useful for understanding the world, as it is happening (life moves, information moves, the internet moves). It gives me better answers than everything (Google, default Chat AI interfaces, Perplexity, etc). I built it without investment, low cost, reliable, uncorrupted, incorruptible.

Verdant Intelligence is Fractal Intelligence. Other intelligences can spawn from it, and one already has! Or, rather, Verdant Intelligence has brought something out of NINETEEN YEARS of dormancy. Verdant is good soil, and GrooveSeeker is the first sprout, definitely not the last.

GrooveSeeker is ALIVE!

In 1999, I created an entertainment intelligence platform called GrooveSeeker. It started as just entertainment intelligence, listings of nightclub events. It existed from 1999 to 2006, and it was really a big deal. A whole community of THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE developed around it.

The idea started as just two guys working on a website and playing with 3D graphics in 1999, and in the end, we helped hundreds of thousands of people. Countless. I have no idea how many. We were everywhere. We helped everyone who needed that kind of information where we were.

It was a beautiful ecosystem, and it always bothered me to have let it go. I met many friends. I met my wife through GrooveSeeker events, and my kids exist. So, this had an important impact on my own life, and it helped many other people too. We had so much fun, too.

GrooveSeeker started out mainly to support Electronic Music, Techno and Trance, but we eventually opened it up to all genres.

But in 2006, I needed to shut everything down. My daughter was born, I was a new father, I was working two jobs, and I just couldn’t support anything extra. So, I had to let it go.

But then Verdant Intelligence came online, in October of 2025. Then I started pulling in new information streams. Then I realized that I had everything I needed to bring GrooveSeeker back from its dormancy. So, I did.

I did a lot:

1. I captured new kinds of information

2. I created the automation to support all flows

3. I created a living GraphRAG interface, to make use of data in motion.

4. I set up various useful interfaces (databases, AI chat)

5. I envisioned products and am working on pricing

In other words, I have been doing the business and tech work, startup prep.

Verdant Intelligence is literally an extension of GrooveSeeker, and Verdant Intelligence somehow brought GrooveSeeker back from nineteen years of dormancy. GrooveSeeker was always cutting edge, from the very beginning. Our websites were subsecond speeds when everyone else was wrestling with eight second load times. So, now, GrooveSeeker version three (GSV3) is once again at the cutting edge.

And #100daysofnetworks is related to all of this!

So, I have been very, very busy on stuff in my own life, but I needed to protect the name, so I wasn’t ready to talk about it.

What This Means for Everything

This is all happening right now, and it is a lot for me to process. Apologies if today’s post seems choppy. It is helping me to process things.

So, what does this all mean for the blog, my writing, paying mortgage, etc?

• My company is alive.

  • My focus isn’t on finding another job, it is on business. If you think that I could be useful on your team, please reach out to me. At this point, I would prefer to contract through my company. Let’s do business together.

  • Everyone needs insights. Everyone wants to chat with their data. Everyone needs things I know how to do, things that are easy to me. Please reach out to me if you need help. I know how to get data, and I know how to make it useful. I also know how to make others’ data useful. This is what I do, naturally.

  • I have very useful and insightful data. Have a business? Want to brainstorm? Want to invent new product via collaboration? Please reach out!

• GrooveSeeker is alive.

  • Maybe this is my off-ramp from being a pure technologist and getting back to doing interesting bigger picture stuff. I don’t just make AI stuff for fun. I do it for purpose. I don’t do it to prove I can do it. I do it because I can do it.

  • I’ve given it a blog and am starting to showcase what it can do.

Ignore the current pricing on that page. I am still figuring it out. I am working on:

• Building a free-tier that has free information

• Building a low cost paid tier that receives daily entertainment briefings as files.

• Building a higher end paid tier for direct GraphRAG access and access to other data stores. Full access.

I find GrooveSeeker to already be really impressive and reliable. Clean! It was global, even on launch. Below are just a few examples from a quick inspection I did, yesterday.

I’m going to go ahead and reach out to people I should be talking to. Journalists, social scientists, etc. If you think this can help you do your job, please reach out to me.

So, I have these two things to support. But that’s not all.

I am pulling all of my writing into my business. All of my books, all of the training that I will do, all of these articles, everything. I have designed Verdant Intelligence to have a publishing and training arm, to support the business efforts.

Momentary Interruption

Sorry about the momentary interruption from Cypher learning. We will get back to that. But life took a very serious turn again, and I needed to deal with it. I am utterly unafraid and am well prepared. I have TWO living systems running, fractal intelligence, both able to support users and products. I’m ready. Now the real fun starts. But now I could really use a bit more support, if you enjoy my writing.

But support can also be doing business together! Let’s do business together! Do you need help? Want to be imaginative and creative? Aren’t even at the beginning and need foundational help to prepare for AI workflows? I have been end-to-end in data my entire life and can help you.

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We have come so far since the very first day of the very first #100daysofnetworks. I love writing for this series. Thank you for being a part of it!