Cofounders
The team behind SILKLEARN — and why we built it.
One career reset. A skill inventory. Seven years teaching music, years in code, and a pattern that kept showing up everywhere: the knowledge existed. The structure didn't.

Cofounder
Jesser Bedoui
Did a career reset and a full skill inventory: programming, design, seven years teaching music. Saw AI-induced panic learning — people scrambling to stay relevant as their fields shifted.

Cofounder
Oussama Bedoui
Six years shipping production software in Angular, Java, and Spring Boot before any of this started
The thesis
The knowledge already exists. The structure doesn't.
We're building the layer between knowledge and understanding. Not a search engine. Not a chatbot. The thing that reads across everything you're trying to learn, maps how it all depends on each other, and hands you back the order that was always implicit in the material — just invisible.
Any source. Docs, papers, videos, links, Notion, runbooks — whatever you're working from. You bring the material. SILKLEARN finds the dependency structure, generates a path, and puts a human in the loop before anything gets followed.
The AI code assistant doesn't write perfect code — a developer reviews, fixes, ships in a fraction of the time. Same logic here. AI generates structure. You inspect before you follow. That reframe turned an NP-hard problem into the right architecture.
Current LLMs retrieve. They don't build world models. Structured dependency paths build actual understanding. Following a path built from your own sources, in the right order, is categorically different from asking a chatbot to summarize them.
The long game: community-forged knowledge paths. The next Wikipedia — but for understanding, not facts. Where paths are contested, updated, forked, and improved by the people who've followed them. And callable by any AI agent via MCP — because understanding shouldn't be locked in a dashboard.
The build
From reset to product.
What shipped, when it shipped, and what's still in progress.
Skill synthesis → the insight
"The knowledge already exists. The structure doesn't."
Dependency-ordered paths from your own sources
Obsidian's graph depth. roadmap.sh's structured paths. Your content.
Human-in-the-loop reframe
AI generates structure. You inspect before you follow. NP-hard becomes solvable.
Dependency mapping engine
First private tests. The structure was always there.
Canvas review layer
Visual graph. Inspect every connection before you follow the path.
The Reset + 30+ blog posts
Building in public. SEO foundation. The knowledge layer starts here.
Waitlist open
Working with early users. MCP integration in progress.
MCP integration
Any AI agent can call the synthesis engine directly. RaaS.
More source types
Video, audio, images, social, API feeds. Any source. Any format.
Community knowledge paths
Community-forged, contested, living paths. The next Wikipedia — for understanding.
Writing
The Reset
A day-by-day founder journal — written the same day it happens, not reconstructed later. What actually went wrong, what we shipped, and what we changed our minds about.