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We build for the world outside the screen.
Cosmonus is the parent company behind StayOnMap, Happenous and the research that connects them.
About
Building Real-World Intelligence.
Most software understands text. Very little of it understands a street, a home, or a group of people deciding what to do this evening. Cosmonus exists to close that gap — through products people use, a studio that makes them, and research into what it takes for systems to understand the physical world.
The three parts
Products people use, a studio that makes them, and research into what it takes for software to understand the physical world.
- ProductsSee the products
StayOnMap and Happenous
StayOnMap helps people find a home, on the map and with no broker in between. Happenous, in build, helps them stay connected with the activities they love and the people nearby who do them too.
- StudioSee the studio
Made in-house
Web, animation, image generation and video for StayOnMap, Happenous and Cosmonus itself.
- ResearchRead the research
Published as we go
Notes on place, trust and the agents we build, including what did not work. Conceptual work is labelled as conceptual.
What Cosmonus is made of
- 01StudioThe creative practice behind every product: web, animation, image generation and video.
- 02ProductStayOnMap and Happenous, both built on knowing where you are.
- 03IntelligenceSpatial intelligence and Trust Score.
- 04AgentsSystems that turn understanding into finished work.
- 05ResearchWhat we are learning, published as we go.
- 06BlogThe ideas behind how we build, explained in plain language.
Why
We start with problems, not technologies.
We look at something ordinary — finding a place to live, deciding what to do this evening — and ask why it still works the way it does. Could it be simpler? Could it understand more about where you are and who you are with? Could the technology disappear into the experience?
Then we build. Some ideas become products, some become research, some stay experiments. We keep all of it under one roof so that what we learn in one place makes the others better.
How we think
01Problems first
We choose the problem before the tool. A new model is only interesting if it makes something real better.
02The world is the test
Streets, homes and groups of people are where our work is judged, so that is where we test it.
03Simpler, then smarter
We remove steps before we add intelligence. Often the most useful change is the one nobody notices.
04Readable systems
When software makes a judgement, a person should be able to see why and check the result.
05Say only what is true
We describe what we have built, label what is still an experiment, and publish what did not work.
06One practice
Design, film, engineering and research sit together, because the best ideas cross those lines.
Research we are doing
The newest notes from our research, each labelled with how far along it is.
- Research note · In progressWhere a listing says it is, and where it really isA written address and a point on a map are two different claims about a home. We are learning to treat the gap between them as information.
- Experiment · In progressFrom a message to a listing someone can checkAn experiment in letting a workflow agent turn a loosely written message into a structured listing, while the owner stays the one who confirms it.
- Company news · PublishedA new Cosmonus site, made in our own studioWe rebuilt this site around the four things we actually do: products, intelligence, agents and the studio that makes them.
