A fact-checker in your pocket. Maps that explain places. A live globe of world events. Every project starts with the same question: can we make something difficult easier to see?
Sometimes that's a map of your community. Sometimes an AI that checks what's true. Sometimes a novel about where all of this is heading. Different forms, one thread: making something hard to grasp a little easier to see.
Three shipping apps for your phone and browser, each built to make one confusing thing clearer.
Explore world events on an interactive map. Available now in your browser, with no account required to start exploring.
Discover where stories are happening and explore the places behind the headlines. NewsMap brings geographically located reporting and official hazard data together on an interactive globe.
“I build the things I wish already existed.”
Two decades in enterprise technology spanning infrastructure, cloud, endpoint management, automation, data analytics, and data engineering. Frank started IdeasQuantified to turn ideas into working tools (FactCheck, WhereTo, and NewsMap) and founded IdeasQuantified Press to explore the same questions through fiction. His debut novel, The Beauty the Dead Remember, is forthcoming.
IdeasQuantified Press explores the same questions as our software (AI, civilization, memory, and the future) but through fiction. Same curiosity, different form.
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Notes from the workshop: new releases, experiments, and the ideas we're chasing next.
NewsMap is live. Read the launch article and explore the nor’easter on the map.
Added 1,400+ datacenters, then rebuilt the whole app and made it free for all public, civic, and environmental information.
My first novel is ready for early readers as part of the ARC campaign: a quiet post-collapse story about what a planetary AI remembers.
Starting the journey into becoming an author. The hardest part isn't writing the book. It's marketing the idea.
