Case study · shipped private research platform

SuperSocial — investor / founder research pipeline

A GitHub Pages research OS for configuring agent tasks, browsing relationship circles, and filing deep investor profiles — lifted from ss-research-website/, with identities replaced and the profile layout reconstructed on invented data.

The problem

Fundraising outreach collapses when research is ad-hoc: no shared circle model, no task handoff into an agent loop, no durable profile artifact. SuperSocial needed an operating surface — not a pitch deck — that turned “research this investor” into a Slack→Cursor-agent→committed-profile loop.

How it worked

Dashboard

See projects, circle counts, pending work.

Create task

Target + circle + task type → local Slack/agent payload.

Agent research

Cursor agent runs the research prompt; commits a profile page.

Circles + profile

1st/2nd/3rd degree graph + deep profile layout for outreach.

Live interface (lifted)

app/index.html open ↗

What it produced — counted volumes

profile_html_pages3Completed profile HTML pages in source tree (never published as-is)ls profiles/*.html | wc -l

yc_invest_db_lines5,247YC invest DB flat file lines (data/prompts, not a UI)wc -l YC_invest_DB/…

vlad_content_overview_bytes30,838Related content-engine overview size (separate artifact)wc -c CONTENT_ENGINE_OVERVIEW.html

What was hard / what it got wrong

Completed profiles are identifiable dossiers — publishing them would be a privacy failure even with CSS intact. Inventory marks profile layout never; only a reconstruction ships.
Original data.js held a Slack channel id and real investor/founder records; tokens were already null, but channel id and names had to be stripped for the case fixture.
Circle counts in the shipped dashboard HTML were partly hardcoded; the case fixture aligns visible stats with the synthetic investor pool and discloses extras.

Real vs reconstructed

Real (lifted): dashboard, create-task, circles, projects HTML/CSS/JS mechanics and navigation.
Anonymised / synthetic data: all investor and founder nodes in app/js/data.js; Slack channel id removed; botToken: null.
Reconstructed: profile page — section headings cloned from the research-profile layout taxonomy, body invented. Banner states this in plain language.
Never copied: original profiles/*.html dossiers.

Provenance: PROVENANCE.md