The Smartacus Neural Net isn’t a single system but a living suite of machine-learning tools that helps our team efficiently mine and publish expert knowledge in the public interest.

in collaboration with community partners, we host interviews in Zoom, transcribe them in Otter, organize and interpret them in NotebookLM, shape them into polished narratives with ChatGPT, and give them voice with ElevenLabs.

With these tools, we transform raw transcripts into magazine-length features and audio narratives of any length, in any genre or style — all with unprecedented accuracy, efficiency, and creative reach.

These tools comprise a collaborative intelligence that listens deeply, remembers faithfully, and helps us tell stories that matter.

Our neural net does not replace the writer. It expands the ways we write in collaboration with the experts we interview.