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⭐ Vanderbilt Owen MBA · Spring 2026
Session 3: Week 1 Review,
Projects & Teams
Monday, March 16, 2026
AI-Accelerated Entrepreneurship Practicum
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Oliver Luckett
BA '96 · French Renaissance Literature
📊 Week 1 Review 🤖 VanderBot Activity 🚀 Inkwell Projects 👥 Pod Formation
Today's Session

Agenda

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1. Week 1 Review — What 56 Students Built
Nodes, relationships, conversations — what happened when a class started talking to AI agents. Stats, patterns, standout work.
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2. Live VanderBot Activity — Open Your Graph
Phones out. Ask your VanderBot to show you your graph. What patterns do you see? What's missing?
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3. Inkwell Labs Projects — Real Companies, Real Problems
BackyardOne, Artiquity, Enginuity, Block BMOS, Aurea Health, Ubiquity — the ventures you'll be joining.
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4. Pod Formation — Pick a Project, Form a Team
3–5 people per pod. Choose your project. You ship together from here through Demo Day.
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Part 1 · Week 1 Review
What 56 Students Built
56
Students Onboarded
Every one with a VanderBot
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Graph Nodes Created
People, concepts, projects
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Sessions Completed
Graph Theory + Social Organism
What We Observed
Conversations → Graph Nodes. Every VanderBot interaction created structure — entities, relationships, context. The Trinity Graph is building itself through natural conversation.

The WHO layer is forming. Your social graph isn't just names — it's connections, contexts, and relationships between people, ideas, and projects.

The tools are live. Claude, Gemini, NotebookLM, Manus — your toolkit is operational. Today we connect it to real projects.
Week 1 Highlights

Best VanderBot Nodes

"The best nodes aren't the most numerous — they're the most connected. A single well-placed node with many edges is worth more than fifty isolated ones."
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Deepest Conversations
Students who asked multi-layered questions — connecting their industry experience to graph theory. These created the richest semantic nodes.
High Edge Density
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Most Connected Graphs
Some students naturally built webs of relationships — linking people to ideas to projects. Their graphs have high betweenness centrality.
Bridge Nodes
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Surprising Insights
The VanderBot found connections students didn't see themselves — cross-domain links that emerged from the graph topology. Emergence in action.
Emergent Edges
Remember Session 1: Degree centrality = how many connections. Betweenness centrality = how many paths flow through you. Quality > Quantity.
🤖 Live Exercise
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Open Your Graph
Pull out your phone. Open WhatsApp.
Ask your VanderBot:
Show me my graph — what nodes have I created so far?
You've created 12 nodes across 3 categories: 5 People, 4 Concepts, 3 Projects. Your densest connection is between...
What are my strongest connections?
💡 Activity: You have 5 minutes. Explore your graph. Then share your most interesting node with the class.
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Part 2 · Projects
Inkwell Labs
Projects
Real companies. Real problems.
Pick one and ship something that matters.
🏠 BackyardOne 🎨 Artiquity ✈️ Enginuity 🎵 Block BMOS 💚 Aurea Health 🌐 Ubiquity
Inkwell Labs Venture

BackyardOne

LA real estate intelligence — LADBS permits, assessor records, zoning data, parcel maps in one interface. Currently in product-market fit phase.
Graph Problem
Real estate data is incredibly fragmented — every data source is a disconnected cluster. BackyardOne builds edges between parcels ↔ permits ↔ owners ↔ zoning codes. The value is in the connections, not the data points.
📊 PMF Phase 🏗️ Data Product 🏠 Real Estate
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B1
Parcel Permit Owner Zone
Parcels ↔ Permits ↔ Owners ↔ Zones
Inkwell Labs Venture

Artiquity

Art provenance and authentication. Making sure creators get credit — and revenue — when AI uses their work. RAA coalition partnership.
Graph Problem
Creative attribution is a directed acyclic graph problem. Who made what → in what order → who owns downstream value? Tracing provenance through the chain of creation. The reverse of the directed graph.
"With AI-generated art exploding, attribution isn't optional — it's infrastructure."
🎨 Attribution 📜 IP / Provenance ⛓️ On-Chain
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Provenance Chain
Original Remix AI Gen Output
Directed acyclic graph of creative contributions
Inkwell Labs Venture

Enginuity

AI-powered scenario planning for infrastructure. Airport master plans, lease analysis, demand modeling. Active RFQ opportunities.
Graph Problem
Airports = weighted constraint optimization. Gates, crew, baggage, flights — all graph nodes with complex edge constraints. AI traverses the combinatorial scenario space 1,000× faster than human planners.
✈️ Infrastructure 🤖 Applied AI 📋 Active RFQs
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Constraint Graph
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Gates
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Crew
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Baggage
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Demand
Every node constrained by every other node
Inkwell Labs Venture

Block BMOS

Music artist management operations — touring budgets, streaming analytics, venue intelligence, anomaly detection. Pierce's platform. 360 venues already in the graph.
Graph Problem
The music industry is a scale-free network — a few artists accumulate disproportionate attention. Power law distribution. Block BMOS gives managers the graph tools to navigate that topology: which venues connect to which audiences, which tours maximize edge coverage.
🎵 Music Industry 📊 Analytics 🎤 360 Venues
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Artist Graph
Artist
Scale-free: few hubs, many leaves
Inkwell Labs Venture

Aurea Health

Health & wellness intelligence. Biomechanical assessment, movement programming, practitioner tools. OAHM platform as proof-of-concept.
Graph Problem
Multi-modal health data integration. Connecting movement patterns ↔ biomechanics ↔ lifestyle factors ↔ outcomes into a coherent knowledge graph. Most health data lives in silos. Aura builds the edges.
💚 Health Tech 🏃 Biomechanics 🧠 Data Integration
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Health Graph
🏃 Movement → Patterns
🦴 Biomech → Assessment
🍎 Lifestyle → Factors
📈 Outcomes → Tracking
Connected health intelligence
Inkwell Labs Venture

Ubiquity

Content hypersyndication and publishing. Create once, publish everywhere — simultaneously across every platform, format, and audience. Being everywhere at once.
Graph Problem
Content distribution graph. How does a single piece of content maintain identity and coherence across a massively distributed publishing network? Same content, different contexts, different audiences. The graph tracks what's published where, how it's performing, and how audiences interact across platforms.
"The future is presence everywhere at once. Ubiquity is the infrastructure for hypersyndication — one creation, every platform, simultaneously."
📡 Syndication 📰 Publishing 🌐 Distribution
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Hypersyndication Network
📰 Web
📱 Social
🎬 Video
One creation → every platform
The Common Foundation

IAM & Volvox

"You're not building isolated apps. You're adding to a shared intelligence layer. Every node you create makes every venture smarter."
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IAM — Inkwell Awareness Model
Awareness refraction, spiral pattern detection, provenance, vector search — shared capabilities every venture inherits.
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Intelligence
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Awareness
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Memory
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Volvox — Knowledge Graph
The shared Neo4j graph connecting all ventures. When BackyardOne learns something, Block BMOS can use it. Knowledge compounds.
BackyardOne learns → graph grows →
Artiquity benefits → graph grows →
Block BMOS benefits → compounding intelligence
Your VanderBot is already connected to this graph. Every conversation you have adds to the shared intelligence layer.
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Part 3 · Teams
Pod Formation
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3–5 People Per Pod
Pick one project. Ship together through Demo Day (Session 14).
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Tier 1 — Inkwell Labs Ventures
BackyardOne, Artiquity, Enginuity, Block BMOS, Aurea Health, Ubiquity. Real users, real code, real stakeholders.
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Tier 2 — Community Partners
Nashville and LA artists, musicians, local organizations. Build something for someone real.
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Tier 3 — Student Ventures
Your own idea, built on the Trinity Graph. Pitch it today. If it's compelling, you run it.
✅ Do
Mix skills (business + technical + creative) · Pick a project you care about · Set weekly working sessions · Use VanderBots as team tools · Ship early, iterate fast
❌ Don't
Pick "easy" projects · Wait until Week 5 to build · Let one person carry · Treat VanderBot as a toy · Build in isolation — the graph is shared for a reason
🎯 Stand up. Find your people. Choose your project. You have 15 minutes.
Report back: pod name, members, project, one sentence on what you'll build by midterm.
📋 Before Wednesday
Assignments for Session 4
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Brand Positioning Memo (1 page)
Who is the customer? What problem do you solve? What's the one sentence that makes someone care? Submit to Brightspace.
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3 Radar Charts
Use the -ity vocabulary from Session 2. Map your project's positioning against competitors across at least 5 dimensions. Use your VanderBot to generate them.
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20 New VanderBot Nodes
Start building your project graph. Talk to your VanderBot about the domain, customers, competitive landscape. The graph should be growing every day.
"The graph is the moat.
Build it together."
Wednesday: Knowledge Graph Design — we go from WHO to WHAT
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