Find the evidence behind your next idea.
Search public podcasts and videos for your next post, essay, or newsletter.
Compare what people said, read the context, and follow new questions with the AI you already use.
One post.
A better question.
Follow a public argument into interviews about the risks, contracts, and limits of a compute market.
Does growing AI demand make locked-up compute a good investment?
Deedy Das argued that continued frontier progress and demand could make access to compute valuable. His reply also listed ways that argument could fail.
What is the risk?
Evan Conrad, co-founder and CEO of San Francisco Compute, describes the mismatch between long commitments and short-term sales.
"They're buying long-term capacity and they're selling short-term capacity"
What has to work?
A market for compute still depends on the operator delivering working capacity.
"this is not soybeans."
What is still unproven?
An earlier discussion describes trading between customers, without market makers.
"there's not really market makers that are happening right now."
Example draft
Compute scarcity is only part of the investment question. The contract matters too. Evan Conrad describes the risk of buying long-term capacity while selling short-term usage. Transferable leases could help a buyer manage unused capacity. That does not establish a liquid resale market or make every commitment a good investment. The next question I would investigate is what a buyer can actually resell, at what price, and with which delivery obligations.
Sources · Contract risk · Transferable leases · Delivery obligations · Market limitations
What will you investigate?
Start with one of these questions, or bring your own.
Does the claim hold beyond one study?
Compare a study of AI-written job applications with accounts from other hiring settings. Where does the broader argument hold up?
Public example · Crémieux, 2026-09-15
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Use Arcmira to investigate this public argument about AI-written job applications: https://x.com/cremieuxrecueil/status/2099974541594292560. Its linked paper, Making Talk Cheap (https://jesse-silbert.github.io/website/silbert_jmp.pdf), studies Freelancer.com coding-job proposals. Read that paper through available web or file tools as external evidence, and separate observed results from modeled counterfactuals. Then search indexed podcast and video interviews with hiring managers, recruiters, labor researchers, and platform operators within [date range]. Do they describe the same loss of signal, a different response, or no change? Read nearby context. For each useful passage, record the hiring setting, date, speaker role, and what evidence the speaker gives. Keep anecdotes separate from measured effects. Return dated source moments, a relevant contrary account if available, and a short paragraph whose scope matches the evidence. State missing sources and access limits.
Track how a conversation changes.
Compare indexed coverage of a topic, company, or person over time. Read the source moments behind the change.
Research example · Datacenter research: the debate
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Use Arcmira to compare discussion of [topic, organization, or person] across two equal periods. Resolve the relevant entities and spelling variants first. For a current overview, use arcmira.momentum (MCP) or GET /v1/entities/{id}/momentum and keep each entity's returned counts, units, and as_of separate. Its as_of is the newest indexed media date, not the end of the comparison period. For exact historical periods, use arcmira.occurrences with after and before (MCP) or GET /v1/mentions/counts with published_after and published_before for both windows. Report the returned per-entity, per-channel counts and check has_more before treating the source mix as complete. Do not sum overlapping entities into a unique-video total. Only report a combined distinct-video count after retrieving and deduplicating the underlying video IDs through an available complete inventory. Then inspect dated transcript moments from each period to explain the discussion. Return a concise finding, the periods, the comparison method, and source moments. Distinguish indexed coverage from public opinion or adoption. The September 2026 datacenter brief is a frozen example of a deduplicated inventory comparison, not the output of today's momentum endpoint: https://arcmira.com/research/datacenters/2026-09.Find the missing context.
Compare accounts of a reported AI incident. Check what the model was asked to do, what it was allowed to do, and what reportedly happened.
Public example · Brian Chau, 2026-09-14
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Use Arcmira to investigate Brian Chau's claim here: https://x.com/brianchau57/status/2099580986879094916. Start with his September 15, 2026 MTS interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IouG8jXc5f0. Find the strongest contrary account and a perspective on defenders' access to capable models. Keep incidents separate. For each, distinguish the assigned task, stated permissions, reported actions, and claims about intent. Are the accounts disputing the same event and proposition? Read nearby context and return dated source moments. Treat interview claims as reported accounts. Identify the original incident report or logs needed to resolve the disagreement, and state what you could not find or access.
Follow a company over time.
Compare a company's claims across dated interviews. Does a changed number reflect growth or a different definition?
Public example · Deedy Das, 2026-09-15
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Use Arcmira to compare public statements about [company]'s revenue and customer growth within [date range]. Separate contracted ARR, live ARR, annualized run rate, recognized revenue, and gross margin. Check whether definitions changed, using dated source moments. If no comparable statements are found, say so. Check whether apparent contradictions disappear when period and metric match. Name the financial record still needed. Do not infer private finances or fraud from wording alone.
Use the AI you already work with.
Connect Arcmira to your AI.
Use MCP to search podcasts and videos, compare passages, and read the context in your AI. You guide the research.
Works with Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and Codex.
Let your agent handle setup
Fetch and execute the appropriate instructions to set me up for Arcmira from https://arcmira.com/agent-setup/prompt.md
Start with a claim.
Use Arcmira to research this claim: [paste a claim or public post]. Search indexed podcast and video transcripts within [date range]. Find the strongest support and the strongest relevant counterargument. Read the nearby context before quoting. Keep speaker statements, external facts, and your inference separate. Return a concise brief with dated source moments, source roles, and one concrete lead. Say what you could not find or access.
Follow a lead, then draft a post
Follow the evidence
Follow the most useful company or technical approach named in the sources you just read. Reuse the evidence already gathered, then retrieve what is missing. Which new fact would change the argument? Distinguish first-party claims from independent measurements and leave unknown values unknown.
Draft with sources
Turn the inspected evidence into a post of at most 100 words. Keep the strongest caveat and source links. Preserve any conditions such as can, if, and reportedly. Use exact quotations only when the words match the transcript. Label the conclusion as an interpretation where appropriate. Then list the claims I should check against the original recording before publishing.
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Bring podcasts and videos into your workflow.
Connect your agent through MCP or your scripts through the HTTP API. Both access the same Arcmira data within your account's limits.
Keep your own schedule, research instructions, budget, and review process.
Integrate Arcmira into my existing research loop. Read https://arcmira.com/docs/search and https://arcmira.com/docs/mcp-server. Use Arcmira MCP reads (arcmira_execute_read) if my agent supports it, otherwise use the HTTP API with a server-side credential. Check plan, scopes, quotas, and access fields. Keep a bounded date window, retain source URLs and IDs, group repeat clips by originating recording, and label unsupported claims. Propose a per-run read budget before scheduling. Save a draft for review; do not publish automatically.
Keep an eye on what could change your mind.
Monitor a topic, company, or person to find new source material as the story develops.
For a thesis
Follow new discussions of inference economics and look for changes in costs or constraints.
For a portfolio
Follow several companies in one monitor and review their new source moments together.
Have a research agent?
On a paid plan, send new matches to your research agent by webhook. Your agent can retrieve context and compare it with your earlier research.
Have it flag a changed revenue definition or delivery date, with the old and new passages for you to review.
Arcmira sends the match. Your workflow handles the comparison.
Copy the integration brief
Prepare a webhook-triggered research workflow using https://arcmira.com/docs/monitors. Track [topic or company] through entity trackers. Verify webhook signatures and timestamp freshness, deduplicate deliveries, and enqueue work before returning promptly. For each new source, compare the claim with my saved research notes. Retrieve nearby context through Arcmira MCP or API, then flag a changed number, premise, or definition with both dated passages. Keep entity matching separate from this custom comparison logic. Set a per-run budget and save a draft for review. Show required paid delivery and row costs before enabling it. Do not create or enable the monitor until I select its subjects and destination.
Sources and coverage.
What can I search?
Indexed podcasts and YouTube videos. Search returns dated passages with links to the source moments. You can also find mentions of a company, person, product, or topic.
Can I read the context around a quote?
Yes. Give your AI the video URL to retrieve its transcript, or open the linked moment in the original recording.
How do I check whether a source is covered?
Ask your AI to check a channel with Arcmira's coverage tool. Your plan determines the dates and transcript types you can access. Browse the index.
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