What is HyperKonic?
HyperKonic is the engine that turns a firm’s whole history into an edge that compounds. It makes every email, deal, file and relationship the firm has ever had exact, so that history keeps working instead of evaporating.
Your history is your edge.
Every deal, relationship and lesson your firm has ever had, made exact and put to work. It gets stronger with every email you send.
Who should we call first about the new fund?
Three people you already know, ranked by the relationship.
Family office, Boston
Invested in Fund I.
They asked when the next fund opens. Follow up: none sent. Textlines 5–6
Health system, Ohio
Passed on Fund I. Two meetings.
Asked about co-investing. No reply sent Cells'Sheet1'!E3
Reference on a 2020 deal
A former operating partner. Two calls.
Never contacted since Record/deals/0/references/0/since
made-up records · the ranking is an inference · each fact under it has an address
See this address resolveNothing your firm learns should evaporate.
The next deal, the right introduction, the thing nobody else noticed: it is already in your records. You reach it sooner than anyone else, because nobody else has your history.
Know who you really know.
Every relationship your firm has, ranked by what happened: the emails, the meetings, the replies. Not by who is on a list.
Old work keeps working.
Every deal you passed on, every reference you called, every deck you were sent. All of it answers when you ask.
It compounds.
Each new email, file and call adds to it. Every year it runs, your lead over everyone else grows.
Precision is the engine.
Every file becomes one exact form. Every fact gets an address. Then code can connect anything to anything, fast, and the model only has to point.
Exact.
Every file is converted into one exact form, the same way every time.
Located.
Every fact has an address and a fingerprint.
Connected.
Code relates any fact to any other, across every year of records.
Compounding.
Each new email, file and call adds to it. The edge grows.
The model points. Code fetches.
Take the first fact in the example. A model chose where to point. Code went to that address and brought back the exact words.
Call note
Date: 2023-03-14
With: Family office, Boston
Fund I: invested
They asked when the next fund opens.
Follow up: none sent.{"form":"text/1",
"sha256":"e10ffeca076356fc944568b1867d6acdbe2850a5563218eb6e182672e9da6330",
"lines":[5,6]}{"content":"They asked when the next fund opens.\nFollow up: none sent.\n","status":"ok"}Then someone edits the note. The same pointer gets a different answer.
{"status":"stale"}If a source has changed, it says so.
the record is made up · the pointer and both results are the engine’s own output
Four results, no others.
- ok
- The address holds. Here are the exact words.
- invalid
- The pointer is malformed, or it points outside the record.
- stale
- The record has changed since the pointer was made.
- unavailable
- The record cannot be reached right now.
The engine never guesses, and it never repairs an address.
We build the whole system.
One complete package: the engine, and the system built around it. Built for your firm, around the records you already have.
Everything goes in.
Email, documents, spreadsheets, decks, calls, calendars and the systems you already run. If your firm produced it, the engine reads it.
Built around your firm.
We build it for the way you work: your sources, your questions, your people. Your firm chooses the records it reads and the people it answers.
Answers you can check.
Every answer shows the facts under it, and every fact has an address. One tap takes you to the exact words in the record.
It surfaces. You decide.
A fact has an address. An inference shows the facts under it.
If a source has changed, it says so.
Built onHyperKonic
Every system we build carries the engine’s plate.
What people ask first.
Short answers, in plain words.
What does a firm get?
HyperKonic builds the whole system for the firm: the engine, the connections to the firm’s records, and the place its people ask questions. Each system is built around how that firm works.
What does HyperKonic do with a document?
HyperKonic converts the file into one exact form, the same way every time, and gives every fact in it an address. Code can then fetch that fact again and check that the source has not changed.
What is an address?
In HyperKonic, an address is the exact place a fact sits inside a record: a range of lines in a text, a cell in a sheet, or a path in a structured record. Each address travels with a fingerprint of the content it points into, so the fact can be fetched again and checked against its source.
Does HyperKonic use AI?
Yes, for one job: pointing. A model reads a record and selects the facts that matter, and it returns addresses and labels, never the values themselves. Code then fetches the exact words or figures from those addresses.
What does the engine return when it is asked for a fact?
The HyperKonic engine returns exactly one of four results. ok comes with the exact content. invalid means the pointer is malformed or points outside the record. stale means the content has changed. unavailable means the record cannot be reached right now. The engine never guesses and never repairs an address.
What happens when a source changes?
HyperKonic says so. Every pointer carries the fingerprint of the content it was made from. If that content has changed, the engine returns stale with no value, and the fact has to be pointed at again.
Does an address mean the answer is right?
No. In HyperKonic an address shows where a fact came from and that it has not changed. It does not show that the model pointed at the right fact. That is why a ranking, a match or a suggestion is labeled as an inference with the facts shown under it, and why a person makes the call.
What can the engine read?
HyperKonic reads the records a firm runs on: email, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, PDFs, web pages and structured data. Each kind of file is converted by a fixed recipe, so the same file always gives the same result. Anything the engine cannot yet read exactly is recorded as open work, never reported as complete.
How is the engine tested?
The HyperKonic engine is checked against a fixed set of made-up files with known answers, and its output has to match them byte for byte. A separate verifier runs the comparison, and the engine can never rewrite its own expected answers. No client records are used in tests.
Does HyperKonic make decisions for the firm?
No. HyperKonic surfaces the right fact for a person with judgment, and that person decides. It does not replace the judgment.
How do we start?
Ask one question. Use the form on hyperkonic.com to send the question you would most like your firm’s history to answer, or write to info@hyperkonic.com. We reply by email.
Who is behind HyperKonic?
Jonathan Edwards, Founder.
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