Memos by Brian Swichkow

Pythia
Pythia is a research tool that can predict the potential reach, influence, and conversion. It does this by creating computer models of online communities and simulate testing. The Black Box system...
Resonance Score
Resonance Score is a single, unified metric created by CulturePulse to assess how strongly a message, creative, policy, or strategy is likely to resonate with a target audience, calculated by testing...
Clay
Clay is an ai-powered Go-To-Market (GTM) automation platform that enables companies to combine premium data sources with intelligent workflows to accelerate growth. Founded in 2017, it integrates...
Siri AI
Siri AI is Apple's rebuilt, conversational version of Siri, released in beta on September 14, 2026 with iOS 27 and the other 2027 software releases, powered by the next generation of Apple...
Qwen
Qwen is an Alibaba product — a family of predominantly open-weight large-language-models and multimodal models built by the Qwen team at Alibaba Cloud, also known by its Chinese name Tongyi Qianwen...
Qwen3.8
Qwen3.8 is the August 2026 generation of Qwen, Alibaba's large language model family, spanning the 2.4-trillion-parameter Qwen3.8-Max flagship and a 27-billion-parameter dense open-weight model....
Qwen3.8-Max
Qwen3.8-Max is Alibaba's flagship multimodal large language model and the largest in the Qwen family, a 2.4-trillion-parameter sparse mixture-of-experts system launched on August 3, 2026. The model...
Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents
Stanford CS329A: Self-Improving AI Agents is a graduate course at Stanford University on techniques that let AI agents improve themselves through interaction with their environment and with their own...
Generator
Generator is one of the Human Design System types, defined by a constant Sacral Center, with an enveloping aura, sustained life-force energy, and a strategy of waiting to respond. Generators make up...
Projector
Projector is the second-rarest Human Design System type, defined by having no Sacral Center, with a focused aura designed to guide and direct the energy of others rather than generate it. Projectors...
Reflector
Reflector is the rarest Human Design System type, defined by having no defined centers at all, and is designed to mirror the health of their community back to it. Reflectors make up roughly 1% of the...
Link
Link is a one-click checkout product operated by Stripe that lets customers save payment and shipping details once and autofill them across any Link-enabled merchant. Launched in the early 2020s as...
Jeff Katz
Jeff Katz is the Founder and President of SocialKatz, a digital marketing agency that helps brands grow through social media management, influencer marketing, paid media campaigns, and brand...
Human Design System
The Human Design System is a self-knowledge framework that synthesizes elements of astrology, the Hindu chakra system, the I Ching, Kabbalah, and quantum physics, mapping a person's energetic...
Muse
Muse is Meta's personal AI agent, launched in September 2026, that pursues a user's tasks and goals autonomously through a messaging interface, running on a dedicated cloud virtual machine. Muse is a...
Computer Numerical Control (CNC)
Computer Numerical Control (CNC) is the automated control of machining tools via programmed computer instructions, enabling precise, repeatable cutting, drilling, milling, and turning across metals,...
FarmBot
FarmBot is an open-source Computer Numerical Control (CNC) farming robot, made by FarmBot Inc. of San Luis Obispo, California, that plants, waters, weeds, and monitors a raised garden bed on an...
GigRadar
GigRadar is an AI lead-generation platform for UpWork agencies that automates job discovery, proposal writing, client conversations, and call booking from job post to pipeline. GigRadar is operated...
Consumer Packaged Goods Directory (CPGD)
Consumer Packaged Goods Directory (CPGD) is a curated discovery platform showcasing emerging Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG) brands and the resources that support them, founded by Andrea Popova. It...
SocialDatabase
SocialDatabase is a Netherlands-based company that develops audience-targeting and social-data solutions for advertisers and agencies. The firm processes publicly available data from major platforms...