Guide 1 — Quick Start
Overview
What Theseus Codex is, and how the parts fit together
This documentation describes Theseus Codex's infrastructure and methodology. It does not expose private firm materials, uploaded source documents, or unreleased internal records.
- For
- Anyone reading the public site for the first time.
- Summary
- Theseus Codex is the website face of a research and investment firm whose product is its recorded reasoning. Three programs work together: a desktop recorder that turns spoken conversation into structured transcripts, a background workshop that turns recorded material into a navigable library of claims and principles, and the Codex itself — the website you are reading now, which exposes a reviewed subset of that work to the public.
Three programs, one record
The platform has three pieces that share one record.
- A desktop recorder listens during a meeting, transcribes in near real time, breaks the transcript into one-sentence claims, and flags when two claims pull against each other.
- A background workshop turns any recorded material — a meeting, an essay, a podcast — into atomic claims, distilled principles, a knowledge graph, coherence checks, adversarial objections, and methodology profiles.
- The Codex is the website. Its public face renders reviewed conclusions, methodology, Currents opinions, and Forecasts. A signed-in founder workspace lives behind it; that workspace is not what these public docs describe.
Two access levels
Sign-in is gated. Founders can upload material, browse the corpus, review what the workshop produces, and ask the firm's internal Oracle. A smaller operator role — referred to in the guides as founder-alpha — handles publication approval, kill switches, live trade authorization, and the quarterly methodology review.
The split exists because some actions touch the world outside the firm. Publication and trading are accountable to a single human role; routine reasoning work is not.
The reader's path
Material enters through upload or recording. The workshop processes it into claims, then principles, then conclusions. Operator-side review either accepts a conclusion for publication or sends it back. Once published, the article shows up on the public site with its citation chain intact.
Live commentary (Currents) and prediction-market opinions (Forecasts) run continuously on the same corpus. Both abstain when the corpus is too thin to back a position; both publish their audit trail next to the position itself.