About This Project
What this is
- A free public-data map and companion book tracing 473 people and 1,794 public ties across the AI industry.
- Built from public sources, algorithmic clustering, and editorial review.
- Designed for industry literacy, career learning, and discussion.
- Includes a corrections process and methodology caveats.
If you are named in the map
If something about your profile is inaccurate, missing context, or uses information you believe should not be public, click the Contribute button on the map and submit your request. We will review it and correct within 1 week.
Methodology
Who was included: People with visible influence in the modern AI industry (founders, researchers, investors, executives, operators, safety voices, infrastructure builders) identified through public sources and algorithmic clustering, then manually reviewed.
What "public tie" means: A relationship documented in public sources: co-authorship, co-founding, employment, board membership, investment, marriage/family (when professionally relevant and publicly known), mentorship, and repeated professional collaboration.
Sources: Public company filings, Crunchbase, LinkedIn (public profiles), published interviews, news coverage, academic papers, conference talks, and publicly available bios.
Limitations: This is a snapshot, not a live feed. Relationships change. Some ties are stronger than others. The map inevitably over-represents people with large public footprints and under-represents people who are influential but private.
For media
Two findings that may be useful for coverage:
Screenshots available on request. Project URL: the full map.
Contact: @yumi_willems on X · LinkedIn
About the author
Yumi Kimura. Founder of BehaviorGraph, building the organizational-behavior layer for enterprise AI agents. Columbia University.