Field Note
From Data Centers to Meaning Manifolds
InflectAI launches Vector Manifold Analytics, Inc. as the first company built around the idea that beliefs have shape.
Back in 2010, I drove to a nondescript warehouse behind a Home Depot in Ashburn, Virginia for an interview at AWS.
Inside, Stephen Schmidt and CJ Moses were working on a question that sounded strange at the time: how do you make cloud computing safe enough for enterprises and the federal government?
The opportunity felt big before the market had fully formed around it. Looking back, that instinct was right.
Today, InflectAI launches Vector Manifold Analytics, Inc. VMA is the first company built around a foundational idea at InflectAI: beliefs have shape. They can be studied as things with position, movement, inertia, drift, and momentum.
InflectAI retains the IP and patent portfolio around that broader idea. The ambition is to build multiple companies, each applying it to a domain where the movement of belief matters.
VMA is the first expression: applying it to financial markets through the Financial Market Meaning Manifold, FM3.