ChipMates gemeinnützige GmbH
We build bridges to the wisdom of remarkable people
We have one project: Agora Cosmica, an open-source Living Library for wisdom from history.
We believe the ideas of history’s greatest minds are a living inheritance. They belong to everyone.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion, bewilderment is intuition.— Rumi
Our project
A Living Library You Can Talk To
Agora Cosmica is a Living Library for the wisdom of remarkable people. Thirty figures brought to life in crafted first-person portraits you can listen to, learn from, and speak with.
The learning path
Each figure unfolds through four chapters. Each builds on the last, a path from a first encounter to an understanding of your own.
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Story Receive
An atmospheric episode from the figure’s life, narrated in their own voice.
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Wisdom Explore
Talk one of the figure’s teachings through with them, idea by idea.
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Prism Connect
Hear the figure take that teaching further alongside three connected thinkers.
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Quest Prove
A Socratic test of your understanding, in conversation with the figure.
Alongside the path
An open conversation with the figure, with no set path.
Listen to four figures explore one of life’s questions together.
What makes it different
Honest by design
Every figure is openly an AI portrait, and each comes with factchecks: what history confirms, and what we retold.
A crafted catalog
Hundreds of stories, dialogues, and teachings, created in a human-AI collaboration, then revised and fact-checked again and again over two years.
Audio-first
Made to be heard, not only read, with the voices running on our own servers in Germany.
No user tracking
No tracking cookies, no third-party analytics, no profiles that follow you between visits.
Nonprofit
No ads, no paywalls, no investors. Built for the public, not for profit.
Open source
The full source is public on GitHub under the AGPL-3.0 license.
Our mission
We try to open doors to wisdom
Remarkable people throughout history left behind ideas that can change lives. Yet dense texts keep most people from ever encountering them. We are working to change that.
We are a doorway, not a destination. An introduction, not a university. We do not replace deep study. We invite people to take the first step. Our thirty figures include philosophers like Plato, scientists like Einstein, mystics like Hildegard von Bingen, and pioneers like Ada Lovelace. We define wisdom broadly, because insight comes from many sources.
Our role
- A first conversation, not the final word
- A spark of curiosity, not a lecture
- A bridge to books, courses, and deeper study
- A complement to formal learning, never a replacement
Breaking down barriers
We celebrate when people outgrow us, moving from our introductions to primary texts, from AI conversations to human teachers, from curiosity to their own deeper exploration. That is not failure. That is the mission.
A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.— Laozi
Our values
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Gratitude
Every era and tradition has something to teach us.
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Curiosity
We learn with you, not about you.
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Openness
Nonprofit. Open source. Built for the community, not for profit.
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Transformation
What grows within ripples outward.
Our promise
We are early in this journey and we will make mistakes. When we oversimplify, misrepresent, or miss the mark, write to us at [email protected]. We are not building for you, but with you.