# morph: method

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

## the lanes

the corpus was produced by two parallel agent research lanes — one covering company history, people, and product; one covering coverage, sentiment, and the fast-edit-model idea — each writing a lane report against lane-prefixed scratch source catalogs before synthesis merged them into one typed catalog. the pattern is the company-research formula proven on roam-research and obsidian: per-claim confidence from the start, dated sources, 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, reference, repo.
- sentiment describes the coverage, not the truth of it.

## known gaps

- every speed and accuracy figure is vendor-reported; no independent shared benchmark compares morph against relace, open weights, or frontier-native editing.
- morph's own product pages disagree — v3-fast accuracy at 96% or 98%, v3-large speed at ~2,500 to ~5,000 tok/s, context windows from 16k to 262k, compact at 33,000 or 3,300+ tok/s. the inconsistencies are preserved, not resolved.
- total funding is unknown: the ~$500k yc-linked figure conflicts on date, the $19m aggregator figures trace to morph l2, and no form d or primary round announcement exists.
- vlad lezhnin's co-founder/cto role rests on his linkedin headline alone; the yc directory lists only bhakta.
- the customer list is partially unverified — jetbrains, vercel, and webflow are uncorroborated; continue and kilo code are documented; cline and roo code proposals never shipped.
- cursor's current apply architecture is private; whether morph powers any part of it is unestablished and not claimed here.
- the announced inline edit model and tab api have no public release evidence; whether they shipped, folded, or died is unrecorded.
- morph-internal adoption telemetry — daily apply volume, customer concentration, churn — exists only in vendor materials, if at all.

## corrections

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

134 cataloged sources. 41 timeline events. 20 writings. 40 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/morph/method


Published by @ben in profile revision 1.
Original document: https://hraness.com/morph/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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