The Core Concept: Palantir for Public Genealogy
Underneath the OnlyHumans verification engine sits Curriepedia—a massive, public, AI-curated wiki. Think of it as a "Universal Biography Graph." Instead of just tracking the famous people like standard Wikipedia, we are mapping the entire human family tree.
Incumbents like Ancestry.com hoard historical data behind paywalls. Curriepedia disrupts this by making the historical graph entirely free, acting as a massive, organic honeypot. Users search for their ancestors, find their family tree, and realize that to claim their node and edit their history, they must verify their identity. That verification fuels the commercial OnlyHumans engine.
The Mathematics of Ancestry
Genealogy is not a tree that widens infinitely into the past. Due to cousin intermarriage, it forms a diamond shape known as Pedigree Collapse.
If we trace an unbroken line of fathers back through time (assuming one generation every 25 years), the timeline looks like this:
| Timepoint | Ancestor Type | Est. "Fathers" |
|---|---|---|
| 1 Million Years Ago | Homo erectus | 40,000 |
| 100 Million Years Ago | Early Placental Mammal | 4,000,000 |
| ~4.2 Billion Years Ago | LUCA (Single-celled) | 168,000,000 |
A line of 40,000 men holding hands stretches only 40 kilometers. The entirety of human-like existence is incredibly short.
The Addressable Market of the Dead
To build the historical graph, we track our "Stripe Metric"—what percentage of recoverable humans we have indexed. While 117 billion humans have lived, most are lost to time.
- Pre-1800 Target: ~500M to 800M people (found in parish records, early censuses, and clan books).
- Pre-1400 Target: ~5.5 Million people. This requires AI to parse Chinese Jiapu, Islamic Tabaqat, and European Manorial Rolls.
To ingest this, autonomous AI agents crawl obituaries and public records. A specialized "Rosetta Stone" AI agent is trained exclusively to read 14th-century Medieval Latin "Court Hand" to digitize the records governments ignore.
The Dual-Entity Architecture (The Air-Gap)
Scraping global data, obituaries, and genetic records carries massive regulatory risk (Clearview AI failed because they owned the data). To survive, we use a Palantir-style software provider model separated by an airtight legal and technical firewall.
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Entity A (The Scraper DAO):
An open-source, self-sovereign AI living on-chain. It funds its own decentralized compute via crypto, scrapes the web, and hosts the massive, radioactive Curriepedia database.
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Entity B (OnlyHumans.info):
A fully compliant, fiat-friendly C-Corp. It integrates with Stripe and government ID databases. It does not own the wiki data. It acts strictly as an Oracle.
The Zero-Knowledge Handshake: The DAO is hardcoded to only allow edits from wallets holding a specific cryptographic token. A user pays Entity B (OnlyHumans) a fiat fee and verifies their ID. Entity B issues a zk-SNARKs Proof of Personhood. The user hands this token to the DAO to unlock their family tree. The commercial entity makes the money; the autonomous AI takes the regulatory risk.