Skein indexes what you already have, and writes the page you would have written before the call.
The retainer was agreed in an email in March. The reason it changed is in a call note. The person who knows both left in June. Every AI tool you own starts from zero every morning, because none of them has the one thing that would make them useful: what happened here before.
What the category does
Ten million invoices become ten million nodes. The import runs for hours, the graph is stale the moment it finishes, and refreshing it costs an afternoon nobody spends.
What Skein does
Ten million invoices become one summary per customer and a pointer to the rows. The totals are real, computed over every row. The rows never move.
Every product in this category opens on a search box or a graph visualisation. Both serve the person who already knew what they were looking for, which is the person who did not need a graph. Skein opens on a document.
That last line is the feature. No competitor tells a buyer what its graph does not know. It ships as a page, a PDF and a mail draft.
| What buyers complain about | Cause | Skein |
|---|---|---|
| Every record costs a model call | LLM builds the graph | Zero model calls |
| Facts that were never said | LLM builds the graph | Foreign keys and headers |
| Ingest takes hours | LLM builds the graph | One pass, no inference queue |
| Data leaves the building | Hosted by default | Nothing leaves the machine |
| Entity resolution is wrong | Genuinely hard | Shared. We ask instead of guessing |
| No SOC 2 | Time and money | Shared. Not started |
Because the graph costs nothing per record to build, the graph is never the upsell. Competitors meter what we give away.
Step one
Nothing else. No database to stand up, no account, no service to sign up for, no driver to compile. macOS and Windows.
Step two
A window opens, your browser follows. Point it at a folder, a mailbox export, a spreadsheet, or type your database details into six boxes.
The database drivers ship inside the product, so a machine with nothing installed connects to PostgreSQL and MySQL on the first try. Nothing is written to your graph until you have seen the plan and approved it.
Sell Install first, even to a buyer who could afford Build. It ends with a working brief on their own data, and the upgrade sells itself once they have read one.
No SOC 2, no HIPAA, no BAA. Not started. For an install where the data never leaves the customer's own machine, the audit surface is theirs rather than ours. That is an argument, not a certificate, and some buyers will need the certificate.
Entity resolution is real work. Everyone in this market claims it and nobody has solved it. We put ambiguous names in a queue and ask, which measured 1.00 precision against 0.82 for accepting everything.
One person has run the onboarding, once. Somebody who did not build it has not yet connected a database cold. That is what the review copy is for.
Putting this in the room early is not modesty. A buyer in this category has already been sold certainty by somebody else and did not believe it.
Two weeks, fixed price, ends with a document you can hand to somebody who will never open a console. If the brief is not worth the money, do not buy the platform.
RyanAI LLC · Missouri · getskein.io · Every figure in this deck is reproducible from docs/PERFORMANCE.md