Three Platforms for Better Thinking
Why we built Lattice Work, Mount Rushmore, and Scholia
Most business advice is generic. "Move fast and break things." "Hire A-players." "Focus on your core competency." It sounds right in a conference keynote, but it falls apart the moment you're staring at a real decision with real consequences.
We started Alamo AI Labs with a simple question: What if the best advice already exists — buried in the biographies, speeches, and decisions of the people who built the modern world?
The answer became three platforms, each designed to extract signal from history and make it useful today.
Lattice Work
A database of approximately 125 mental models spanning 20 different disciplines — from physics to psychology, economics to evolutionary biology.
The idea is straightforward: when you're stuck on a problem, you're usually stuck inside one frame of thinking. Lattice Work breaks you out. Describe your situation, and it selects five models that reframe the problem from angles you hadn't considered.
Charlie Munger called it a "latticework of mental models." We took him literally.
Mount Rushmore
A database of 100 founders — with plans to grow to 300. Each profile captures not just what they did, but how they thought: their philosophies, their blindspots, the patterns in their decision-making.
Type in a business problem and Mount Rushmore assembles a virtual Board of Directors: five experts drawn from history's most consequential builders, plus one devil's advocate to stress-test the advice. It's not about getting the "right" answer. It's about hearing from people who faced analogous problems at the highest stakes.
Scholia
Our most ambitious project. Scholia uses 20 carefully engineered prompts and a decision tree to process primary source materials — biographies, memoirs, interviews, podcasts — into deeply researched, richly detailed write-ups.
This isn't summarization. It's synthesis. The system identifies mental models, traces decision patterns, surfaces contradictions, and connects insights across an entire body of work about a single founder. The output reads like a dossier written by someone who spent months studying the subject — because, in a sense, it did.
The Common Thread
All three platforms share a conviction: the raw material for better thinking already exists. It's scattered across thousands of books, hundreds of interviews, decades of history. Our job is to mine it, structure it, and make it immediately useful.
We're not building another chatbot that gives you platitudes. We're building tools that give you the specific mental models and specific historical precedents that apply to your specific problem.
That's the vision. We're just getting started.