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Case study · Syrion.ai
Syrion gives researchers and independent investigators AI-assisted access to the public record: declassified documents, patents and other open intelligence. Ask a question and get an answer written only from the documents, with a numbered citation after every claim. It is live at syrion.ai, built 100% with VeraGen. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by the CIA or any government agency.
100% built with VeraGenAn AI research platform for declassified and open records, live · Syrion.ai
Case Study: Syrion.ai on YouTube
Nothing staged: each episode is recorded in the real product as the company is built. 4 episodes so far, 10 minutes.
Episode 1 · Brand Studio · 3:05
A Brand You Can Trust with Declassified Records
The brand in Brand Studio: a brief that writes down the words to avoid, a vault-door logo with no agency imagery, the reading-room palette and an archivist’s voice, approved as v1.0.
The playlist
3:05Episode 1 · Brand Studio
The brand in Brand Studio: a brief that writes down the words to avoid, a vault-door logo with no agency imagery, the reading-room palette and an archivist’s voice, approved as v1.0.
2:43Episode 2 · Tellagent
Tellagent data pipelines with no custom code: the 1,003,493-record catalogue, the National Security Archive’s CIA collection, the full text, cia.gov’s open pages, Vault 7 and the nightly update.
1:59Episode 3 · Data Management
The tables in Data Management, ranked full-text search with highlighted passages, the document reader, and an AI answer with a numbered source after every claim.
2:37Episode 4 · Chimp
The website built in Chimp: the interview, a spec of six epics and thirteen pages, the design, the build, QA at 100s, the release and the live research workspace.
More episodes are on the way. Follow the playlist on YouTube to see each one as it lands.
What Syrion.ai does
The CIA Electronic Reading Room holds 1,003,493 declassified documents. Syrion reads them from the Internet Archive’s complete public copy, because cia.gov blocks automated collection, together with the open pages of cia.gov. Every scan and its text is copied to Syrion’s own storage, so the archive does not depend on another site staying up; the National Archives’ JFK Assassination Records and WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 are being added the same way. The CIA records are public-domain U.S. government records.
Full-page AI search. Answers are written only from the documents, with a numbered citation after every claim.
Search every document, with highlighted passages, filters by year and a timeline.
The text, the scan (PDF) and the CIA document number, with links to cia.gov and the Internet Archive.
Generate a brief, a timeline, a summary or an annotated bibliography, and download it as PDF, Word or Markdown.
Download every source as CSV, RIS or BibTeX, and share answers, documents and sources with links that unfurl as social cards.
Optional free sign-in with a VeraGen ID to keep your research. Searching and reading need no account.
How it was built
Here is which VeraGen app built each part of Syrion.ai, and the episode that shows it.
Syrion: a two-hook S mark, slate #0F172A and deep teal #0F766E, and the tagline “The clear view gained through inquiry.”
Tellagent collects new documents nightly, so the archive stays current.
The document tables in Data Management, and the new research search the answers are written from.
The website and the research app, built in Chimp.
The results
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