The "Dark Matter" of Intelligence: Why I am building Callable* - YouTube+MasterClass but interactive
I have a list of 50 people that I would kill to have a coffee with. Niche founders, retired experts, brilliant writers.
But the reality is: They won't read my cold email. And honestly, they shouldn't have to. They are busy.
The 10% Problem
I realized that for all the crawling Google and OpenAI do, they have only captured maybe 10% of human intelligence. The other 90%—the "Dark Matter" of wisdom—is still locked inside people's heads, private journals, or offline experiences. It is "gatekept" by time and physics.
Why we read Paul Graham
Current AI chats are great at writing you a dry linkedin post (that everyone knows is AI btw), scientific facts or generic advice. But it doesn’t make you more curious or challenge your belief, like another person would.
AI can list the steps to start a startup.
AI cannot teach you "gumption," or how to emotionally recover from a failed business, or the specific nuance of a decision made in a crisis.
That is why we read Substack and scroll on twitter/reddit. We don't just want information; we want human perspective. We want opinions.
The Library of People
I am building Callable*. Think of it a mesh-up of YouTube and MasterClass.
It is a platform where people upload the materials that Google hasn't scraped—their life's work, their gatekept notes, their philosophy, hot-takes, adventures, trivia, successes, failures, lessons — as a vault of knowledge, that's not scrape-able but allows anyone to "call" them to extract their specific wisdom.
We are looking Creators and Users
We launch in 2 weeks from now. We have already onboarded 12 "Founding Humans" (not bots) who have uploaded knowledge you cannot find on Wikipedia or spend 100h reading their lives' work. Or your are simply curious about the product and would like to test it (we are in closed beta).
I'm opening this up to the PH community:
Creators: Do you have knowledge/experience that is currently "offline" or gatekept, but would love to share with the world for a price (we do rev share)?
Users: Who is the one person (alive or dead) you wish you could just talk to for 15 minutes?
Drop a comment or send me an email at tinnix@callable.com.ai
Both creators and users are welcome.
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