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Session 3 · Monday, March 16, 2026

Week 1 Review &
Project Teams

Reviewing your first week with VanderBot · Inkwell Labs projects · Team assignment & collaboration kickoff

WHO Layer WHAT Layer
Today's Session

Agenda

1. Week 1 in VanderBot — What We Built

Review the first week: what happened when you started talking to AI agents. Patterns, surprises, graph density, best nodes.

2. Inkwell Labs Projects — Where You Can Contribute

Walk through the active Inkwell ventures and community projects. Real problems, real users, real stakes.

3. Team Assignment & Collaboration Framework

Form pods, choose projects, establish working agreements. You ship together from here.

4. Next Steps — What's Due for Session 4

Assignments, deliverables, and how to prepare for the Knowledge Graph deep dive.

Part 1

Week 1
in VanderBot

What you built in your first week talking to an AI agent

Week 1 — By The Numbers

Your First Week

2

Sessions Completed

Graph Nodes Created

What We Saw

  • Conversations → Graph Nodes. Every interaction with your VanderBot created structure — entities, relationships, context. That's the Trinity Graph in action.
  • The WHO layer is forming. Your social graph isn't just names — it's connections, contexts, and the relationships between people, ideas, and projects.
  • Some of you went deep. Let's look at the most interesting nodes, the best questions asked, and what surprised your VanderBot.
Week 1 — Live Review

Let's Look at What You Built

Open VanderBot on your phone right now. Let's review together:

Show me my graph — what nodes have I created so far?
You've created 12 nodes across 3 categories: 5 People nodes, 4 Concept nodes, and 3 Project nodes. Your densest connection is between "Nashville Music Scene" and "Attribution"…
What are the strongest connections in my graph?
Your strongest edges are…

💡 Activity: Ask your VanderBot to show you your graph. What patterns do you see? What's missing? Share your most interesting node with the class.

Part 2

Inkwell Labs
Projects

Real ventures, real problems, real users. Pick one and ship something that matters.

Inkwell Labs Ventures

Where You Can Contribute

🏠

BackyardOne

LA real estate intelligence — LADBS permits, assessor records, zoning data, parcel maps in one interface. Currently in product-market fit phase.

PMF · Data
🎨

Artiquity

Art provenance and attribution on-chain. Making sure creators get credit — and revenue — when AI uses their work. RAA coalition partnership.

Attribution · IP
✈️

Enginuity

AI-powered scenario planning for infrastructure. Airport master plans, lease analysis, demand modeling. Active RFQ opportunities.

Infrastructure · AI
🌿

Yaupon

North America's only native caffeinated plant — brand strategy, supply chain, and go-to-market for a sustainable consumer product.

CPG · Brand
More Opportunities

Community & Emerging Ventures

💚

Aura Health

Health & wellness intelligence. Biomechanical assessment, movement programming, practitioner tools. OAHM platform as proof-of-concept.

Health · AI
🌐

Ubiquity

The connective tissue between all Inkwell ventures. Shared infrastructure, IAM awareness model, Volvox Knowledge Graph.

Platform · Graph
🎭

Community Partners

Nashville and LA artists, musicians, local causes. Build something real for someone real. These aren't simulations.

Local · Impact
🚀

Your Venture

Have your own idea? Pitch it. If it uses the Trinity Graph as its operating system, it's fair game. Student-originated ventures welcome.

Student · New
What Connects Everything

The Common Foundation

Every project on the previous slides runs on the same infrastructure:

🧠 IAM — Inkwell Awareness Model

Awareness refraction, spiral pattern detection, provenance, vector search — shared capabilities every venture inherits.

🌀 Volvox — Knowledge Graph

The shared Neo4j graph connecting all ventures. When BackyardOne learns something, Block BMOS can use it. Knowledge compounds.

💡 Key insight: You're not building isolated apps. You're adding to a shared intelligence layer. Every node you create makes every venture smarter.

Part 3

Team
Assignment

Form your pod. Choose your project. Ship something that matters.

Collaboration Framework

How Pods Work

Pod Structure

  • 4–5 people per pod
  • Each pod picks one project (Inkwell venture, community partner, or your own)
  • Pods work together through midterm (Session 7) and Demo Day (Session 14)
  • Every pod member has a VanderBot building the pod's graph in real time

What a Pod Delivers

  • Midterm (Mar 30): 15-min architecture walkthrough — what you've built, what your graph looks like, what you've learned
  • Demo Day (Apr 22): Live working system demo with external judges
  • Weekly: Assignments submitted to Brightspace (individual + pod)
Team Assignment

Form Your Pod Now

Three Tiers of Projects

Tier 1 — Inkwell Labs Ventures

BackyardOne, Artiquity, Enginuity, Block BMOS, Aura Health, Ubiquity. Real ventures with real users and real market opportunity. You'll have access to existing code, data, and stakeholders.

Tier 2 — Community Partners

Nashville and LA artists, musicians, local organizations. Build something for someone in your city. Real impact, real relationships.

Tier 3 — Student Ventures

Your own idea, built on the Trinity Graph. Pitch it to the class today. If it's compelling, you run it.

🎯 Activity: Stand up. Find your people. Choose your project. You have 15 minutes. Report back with: pod name, members, project choice, and one sentence on what you'll build by midterm.

Advice

What Makes a Good Pod

✅ Do

  • Mix skills — business + technical + creative
  • Pick a project you actually care about
  • Set a weekly working session (outside class)
  • Use your VanderBots as team tools, not just personal assistants
  • Ship early, iterate fast

❌ Don't

  • Pick a project just because it sounds easy
  • Wait until Week 5 to start building
  • Let one person do all the work
  • Treat the VanderBot as a toy — it's your co-architect
  • Build in isolation — the graph is shared for a reason
What's Next

Before Session 4 (Wednesday)

📝 Brand Positioning Memo (1 page)

For your chosen project: Who is the customer? What problem do you solve? What's the one sentence that makes someone care? Submit to Brightspace.

📊 3 Radar Charts

Use the -ity vocabulary from Session 2. Map your project's positioning against competitors across at least 5 dimensions. Use your VanderBot to generate them.

💬 VanderBot — Build Your Project Graph

Start talking to your VanderBot about your project. Create entities, relationships, domain knowledge. The graph should have at least 20 new nodes by Wednesday.

📚 Read: AI Factory, Ch. 2–3

Data networks, AI moats, and why knowledge graphs compound. Essential context for Session 4's Knowledge Graph design workshop.

"The graph is the moat.
Build it together."
— Session 3 · Week 2

Wednesday: Knowledge Graph Design — we go from WHO to WHAT