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Spatial Limen: Structural Inference Engine

An evidence-grounded structural inference system designed to surface hidden overlaps across papers and patents while preserving provenance, contradiction, and reviewer control.

Role
Founder & Builder
Product
Structural inference and research-discovery system
Stack
Next.js, Three.js, Supabase/PostgreSQL with pgvector, academic and patent ingestion pipelines
Focus
Provenance, contradiction handling, reviewer trust, and alternative UX for deep discovery
01

Challenge

Standard search and basic RAG systems are good at retrieval, but weaker at discovery. They work best when you already know what to ask, or when the relevant documents already live near each other through language or citation patterns. In deep research, the more valuable signal often sits somewhere else: when different fields are solving similar structural problems without using the same terminology, without citing each other, or while actively contradicting each other. That is where standard search and summary-first AI products tend to flatten nuance instead of surfacing it.

02

Build Decisions

Spatial Limen was designed to help users explore those hidden overlaps in a more structured way. Core capabilities include:

  • Evidence-grounded discovery: Surface cross-domain overlaps without reducing everything to a generic summary.
  • Provenance-preserving structure: Keep source, extracted evidence, and claims traceable rather than collapsing them into one layer.
  • Contradiction-aware reasoning: Preserve support, challenge, and disagreement as first-class parts of the system.
  • Explorable visual interface: Use a 3D graph interface for navigation and pattern recognition when chat is not the right tool.
Live scale (Apr 2026)
27,778
nodes (27,403 papers + 375 patents)
50,282
edges
29
disciplines
316
detected cross-disciplinary collisions
03

Inside the engine

The interface trades chat for spatial exploration — every node stays traceable to its source. Click any frame to enlarge.

Discovery graph — a cross-disciplinary collision map spanning papers and patents.
Node detail — provenance, collision discoveries, and source links for a single claim.
Full-discovery view — surfacing structural overlaps that standard search flattens.
04

Outcome Evidence

The strongest part of Spatial Limen is not just the interface. It is the trust model behind it. The system is built around a structured evidence layer that separates:

  • Source from extracted evidence.
  • Derivation from independence.
  • Contradiction from deletion.

That matters because research systems become much less trustworthy when repeated claims look like independent support, or when conflicting evidence gets flattened away. Spatial Limen is designed to preserve lineage and disagreement instead of hiding them behind a smooth answer. On the product side, that leads to a very different design: ingestion and collision pipelines instead of chat-only retrieval; trust labels and reviewer logic instead of silent confidence assumptions; visual exploration plus source traceability instead of black-box summarization.

Reliability and Trust Notes
  • Provenance, contradiction, and source independence are preserved as first-class objects.
  • Visual graph navigation complements retrieval for pattern discovery beyond chat summaries.
  • System behavior is tuned for reviewer trust over answer smoothness.