What Is kaalam.ai?

We are willing to find people wanting to be part of our project. This page is the "Hello World!" of the Jazz community.

The Mangrove Forest

The mangrove forest will be a recurrent theme in kaalam's brand. Trees that proudly show their roots and challenge the ocean extending lifeforms out of their boundaries. It represents life and respect for Asia. When we invest in corporate brand, we will evolve the mangrove forest theme. For now, we just use one green mangrove leave as the promise of a new life form finding its place.

Geekery

So far, 100% of kaalam's members are geeks. We envision coding as a super power. Code is a formal language so it teaches rigor. kaalam has not yet spent a euro and it already has everything larger companies invest huge sums trying to build, everything built as code: Infrastructure as code, communication as code, steering tools as code, machine learning models, an unpublished algorithm that deserved a Kaggle medal in the Zillow price, a knowledge base, a new kind of English language dataset known as The Tangle, the only English dictionary closed under definition: SPEED (Small Preserved Everyday English Dictionary), a new kind of programming language: Bebop, many results on research over recent years, a flutter-based app to share the Jazz experience with the world, an ambitious AI strategy and a valuable code base: Jazz.

We believe managerial tasks should be kept simple and at the service of corporate goals and strategy. Strategy in a scale-up aspiring to push over the edge is entangled with technical feasibility. We need the kind of rigor only a technical manager can deliver. You probably do not expect the managing partner of law firm not to be a lawyer, but in tech companies the managing coder is an exception. Well, we are the exception.

Don't take the building a "corporation of coders" too strictly. Of course, we need people to define UX, brand, marketing, regulation, sales and everything else, but we want those people to understand how to deliver these things "as code". Meaning that it is something that can be: created once/deployed many times, peer reviewed, tested, measured and continuously improved. Or, at least, people who want to learn how to do that.

There is a world outside technology and we are part of it. We are committed in collaborating with social enterprises that can benefit from our technology. We will build a transparent corporation that respects people, nature and law in terms you feel proud of when explaining them to your children.

We aspire to become responsible innovators. We need money to deliver, money buys commitment when you already have vision, talent and part of the product. Some day we will deliver products in exchange for money from our investors to create more money for all of us. After all, Jazz was born in the financial sector.

No exclusion, no exceptions

One of the advantages of creating kaalam in Europe is we are not bound by exclusion laws that apply in places like the US. We have planetary focus and design for billions of users. If you happen to be born in Iran, Cuba, Syria, North Korea, Sudan, Crimea or wherever, you are just as welcome as anybody else.

First bootstrapping, then funding

We believe in doing it the right way: First proving that we can become a player capable of achieving major advances in AI and then raising money.

We want others to respect us for the same thing we respect others: delivering amazing technology. We definitely believe in meritocracy, we need help, we want to find people that believe in the idea enough to invest their time just for the sake of making it happen.

Premature funding, especially by incumbents, typically ends up replicating the incumbent's hierarchy. In such scenarios, budget ownership replaces vision and ladder climbing skills replace merit. Of course, we would accept funding that does not imply diverging from our strategic goals. It's just that we cannot condition building Jazz to funding. We came this far without money, money would buy us time to advance faster, just that. A community is a collaborative contribution of time, which is money. Somehow, crowd collaboration and crowdfunding look like a better option for now. And building a community is the way to healthy growth. In early stages, premature business plans just to make the project suitable for VC, or accepting "money vs. product" imbalance, since the product is not yet assessed as it should be, could end up frustrating the whole idea.

Just to clarify: This is compatible with crowdfunding Jazz-based products. Raising donations and crowdfunding to make products happen by committing full time dedication of coders is part of the strategy.

And again, not too early! We definitely look forward to build alliances with major players. We believe in going through a period of austerity that self-selects the team, builds the product and earns respect for the vision. After that, alliances should be built, not for money, based on goals.

Epilogue

A thoughtful quote from the admired Demis Hassabis, offering a cautionary reminder about the dangers of self-delusion in pursuit of visionary ideas.

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