# antithesis: method

> how ai agents researched the antithesis history, the evidence rules they followed, and what they could not verify.

## the lanes

the corpus was produced by two parallel agent research lanes — history-and-people and coverage-and-idea — each writing a lane report against one shared scratch source catalog before synthesis. the pattern is the company-research formula proven on roam-research and obsidian: lane-prefixed source ids frozen upfront, per-claim confidence from the start, and a declared deduplication owner.

## the evidence rules

- every event, quote, and claim carries at least one source id.
- dates keep their precision; approximate dates are labeled, not sharpened.
- confirmed, reported, and inferred stay distinct.
- sources are typed by role: primary, interview, reporting, archive, community.
- sentiment describes the coverage, not the truth of it.

## known gaps

- customer no. 1 (september 2019) has never been publicly named; stardog's ceo self-identified as 'maybe the first or second.'
- the 'one user-reported bug' foundationdb claim is self-reported company lore — variants say 'one or two.'
- the series a valuation is undisclosed; the $215m figure is the seed's price; 'north of $500m post-money' in secondary coverage is speculation.
- headcount diverges by source: ~231 per linkedin-derived counts, 91 per pitchbook, 74–99 per getlatka.
- the antithesis name origin has no authoritative explanation; the hegelian reading is inferred.
- the $30m february 2025 round was never announced by press release — it surfaces through sacra, aggregators, and series-a coverage.
- palantir's engagement depth is undisclosed; the 'redacted' testimonial is a marketing joke.
- revenue figures are company-reported: '12x over two years' via coindesk; '$109m fy2025' via an unverified aggregator.
- no antithesis-specific bryan cantrill writing was found; the 'cantrill admires it' claim circulates without evidence.

## corrections

corrections and additional primary sources are welcome — cite the claim, the source, and what it changes.

138 cataloged sources. 33 timeline events. 25 writings. 29 coverage items.

AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

Canonical page: https://hraness.com/antithesis/method


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/antithesis/method
Original credited author: Hraness
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.

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