The questions to which Sokrateque is the answer.

Sokrateque is an ambitious AI startup from Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Our team is focused on helping professionals and students all over the world liberate themselves from dull, routine knowledge tasks.

So they can leverage their intelligence and creativity to do more valuable work, faster.

Hence our tagline: "More IQ for you."

The answer to a simple question

The reason Sokrateque exists is because we stumbled onto AI-powered research five years before anybody else. Long before generative AI.

It started in 2017, with a simple question.

One of us worked as a leadership communication adviser for the founder of one of the world’s largest automotive component suppliers, who asked a simple question.

"Can you do a study to understand which forces drive the adoption of Electric Vehicles globally, and by when we will see an inflection point in sales?"

The small research team needed about 5 weeks to collect the necessary data and had only 1 week left to do the analysis before the deadline.

And so we asked:

"Can’t we use technology to flip this around for future projects, so that we spend one week gathering data and 5 weeks adding the real value doing the analysis?"

This brought Sokrateque into existence, leading to the tool you can now use.

Questions as the answers

In the coming years, millions of professional experts and students are going to spend more time on an AI research platform like Sokrateque than they are on a search engine or chatbot.
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And the interesting thing is that it will change how they learn, work and think. Just like the computer, the radio, the phone and the book changed us. 

We co-evolve with our tools.
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It will change our companies, universities and schools, away from information reproduction to leveraging the imagination and smarts of people.

From a focus on knowing the right answers, to a focus on asking the right questions.

This is a revolution.

The question is, how do we design the tools for this revolution?

Our answer to this question will have a huge impact on our work and lives.

Tech vs people

Right now, as a global society, we are in the phase of figuring out what we can use this technology for and what it means.

Most of our competitors are exploring every possibility of making their technology the most powerful. They are focussed on the tech. And we lift on that.
 
But they are not thinking deeply about how this technology can help make people smarter and more creative today. How it can help us achieve more wellbeing and wisdom.

The fact that they wrap their tech in nice interfaces does not mean they think about people.

And Sokrateque could do that too, but since our competitors are already doing that, we don’t need to. 

Our mission

What we want to do is to figure out what we can learn from some of the smartest people who ever lived and how they think, and use AI so the rest of us can have access to some of that brilliance too. 
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That is why the follow-up questions Sokrateque gives you are designed to counter blind spots in our thinking, like the confirmation bias, for example.

It is why we show multiple answers, all exact quotes from sources, to help you counter mis-information.

It is why we show short quotes as answers; to filter that incredible amount of information we are bombarded with everyday, rather than our AI generating even more text for you to read.

We remove all the distractions, so you can push your cognitive abilities to their limit and increase your ability to distill knowledge or wisdom out of all that information. 
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We believe this will bring you closer to your potential.

And when you do, we will all benefit from that.

When a hundred people do that or even thousands, it will have a big impact.

That is what Sokrateque is after and why we exists and it drives everything we do.

We hope you will join us.