Structured Reasoning Session

Turn a seed idea into a living graph, then pressure-test it.

Synaptic expands one idea into a structured graph with labeled relationships, expandable nodes, devil's-advocate critique, live prior-art crosschecks, tension detection, and one-click export.

Organic search ranking model

Seed

Algorithm novelty

Inspiration

SEO teams

Audience

Crawl budget limits

Constraints

Index lag failures

Risks

PageRank lineage

Prior Art

Personalization scope?

Questions

5+

Node types per session

5

Ideas generated per branch

1-click

One-pager PDF export

Live

Cross-check & prior art

How it works

Five moves from seed
to structured insight

Each session follows a deterministic pipeline so the graph feels deliberate instead of vague or chatty.

01

seed

Plant a Seed

Enter one raw idea. It becomes the center node of your graph and everything radiates from there.

02

map

Generate Graph

AI expands the seed into up to five typed idea nodes with labeled relationships rendered as a zoomable map.

03

inspect

Drill Into Nodes

Click any node to open a structured dossier with summary, tensions, questions, and cross-check controls.

04

check

Pressure-Test

Run Exa, patent, GitHub, and optional Elasticsearch cross-checks on demand. The reranked results feed back into critique and prior-art retrieval.

05

export

Export

Generate a clean one-pager PDF from the session with hook, structure, tensions, and next questions.

Graph anatomy

Every node has a role

Seed

The origin idea. Everything in the graph descends from here.

Inspiration

Adjacent sparks, concepts, and directions worth pursuing.

Target Audience

Who benefits, buys, or feels the pain most acutely.

Technical Constraints

Engineering limits, infra realities, and hard boundaries.

Business Constraints

Budget, timing, regulation, and go-to-market realities.

Risks & Failure Modes

What breaks first and where execution is likely to stall.

Prior Art

Existing products, papers, tools, and competitive analogs.

Adjacent Analogies

Transferable patterns from other industries and workflows.

Open Questions

Unknowns that need explicit research instead of guesswork.

Tensions

Trade-offs and contradictions surfaced early instead of buried later.

Features

Built for deep thinking

Structured Generation

OpenAI Responses returns typed node data instead of freeform text, so each idea has shape and purpose.

Zoomable Idea Graph

React Flow renders the graph as an interactive canvas with circular nodes, labeled edges, and controlled branching.

Devil's Advocate Critique

Each node dossier surfaces tensions, weak assumptions, and execution risks instead of only validation.

Live Crosschecks

Run on-demand Exa, patent, GitHub, and optional Elasticsearch search, then rerank the combined results before surfacing the strongest matches.

Persistent Sessions

Sessions live in Supabase per user, so you can resume, share, and build on previous exploration rounds.

One-Pager Export

Turn the session into a concise export that captures the hook, strongest branches, tensions, and open questions.

Architecture

A well-typed runtime split

Intelligence

OpenAI Responses APIIdea generation
Structured outputsNode validation
Critique pipelineTension analysis
Cross-check orchestrationResult blending

Search & Validation

ExaWeb + paper search
Serper patentsPatent lookup
GitHub REST APIRepository discovery
ElasticsearchIndexed corpus search
Jina rerankerRelevance ordering

Frontend & Persistence

Next.js 16 + React 19App framework
React FlowGraph canvas
Tailwind CSS 4Styling
SupabaseSource of truth

One idea is all
you need to start

Enter a seed below and Synaptic will expand it into a structured graph ready to explore, critique, and export.