Storia AI
The business, the turning points, and the decisions behind them.
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01 / WHAT IT BUILT
What the company did
Storia AI is a Y Combinator-backed startup founded in late 2022 by Mihail Eric (former NLP researcher at Stanford, ex-Amazon Alexa) and Julia Turc (ex-Google BERT team, University of Oxford). It started as a generative-AI tool for filmmakers and TV producers to visualize storyboards from text prompts - winning $250,000 in pre-seed funding in Madrona Venture Labs' competition in April 2023 - then pivoted to building Sage, an open-source AI copilot that indexes a company's codebase so developers can understand, analyze, and generate software in context. No failure event for the company was found.
02 / FAILURE REASONS
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03 / EVENT HISTORY
Events in the structured record
- Company founded, $250K pre-seed
Mihail Eric and Julia Turc launched Storia AI in December 2022 as a generative-AI storyboarding tool for filmmakers; in April 2023 it won $250,000 in pre-seed funding in the Madrona Venture Labs Launchable Foundation Models competition.
- Pivot to code copilot
Storia AI pivoted to Sage, an open-source AI copilot (a 'Perplexity-like agent') that daily-indexes a team's codebase to answer questions and generate code in context.
04 / CONTEMPORARY REBUILD ASSESSMENT
Difficulty of rebuilding this project today
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05 / CAUSAL CHAIN / AFTERMATH
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