O'Shaughnessy Ventures LLC

That's the reason we're talking.

The reason you got in, you know, O'Shaughnessy Ventures got involved in the project.

Emergent Ventures, Tyler Cowen's thing got involved in the project.

It's all because I started talking about this in public.

And I was talking to the right people about this, and they suggested I apply for a fellowship that kind of supports Interesting, compelling, big ideas that have nebulous kind of funding opportunities, and I was really lucky to be one of the people who got one of those, and that was in 2025.

I got an O'Shaughnessy, O'Shaughnessy Ventures fellowship to build this AI tool, and so I went full-time on that and the books, and, and my family's bookstore.

And so we have probably half a million books between our storefront and one off-site warehouse, and the tool I'm building, basically, we do not scan full books, but we use AI to create bibliographic metadata based on the physical book we have in front of us, and then use that to cross-reference databases online and kind of enrich that and find the price, et cetera.

I'm not gonna get into the whole story behind that because that's a rabbit hole on its own, but the reason I was able to comment on this, on this story was actually I was at providing some nuance or an alternative idea because for the last year, the reason I've been working on this is both because it, it solves a big operational problem for used bookstores, but also because I've been seeing this kind of books disappearing into this opaque used book ecosystem for years.