Founder Stories — AI-illustrated company histories from Anthropic, OpenAI, Stripe, Databricks, Cursor, Notion, Modular, and 400+ more

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About Inkwell

Introduction

Inkwell is an AI-powered storybook experience created by Modular. Every page is written by Gemma 4 with web tools, and illustrated by Flux 2 — all served on the Modular platform. All information comes from publicly available web sources and may not be exactly correct — we're happy to correct any story.

How it works

Paste any company's website and Inkwell crafts a 5–12 page founder story — vision research, founder photos, brand palette, and tone all baked into the prose and the art. Each page streams in as you read, so no two stories are quite the same. At the final page you can fork the narrative into a speculative future, share it in a single tap, or remix it into a fresh visual style.

Technology

Inkwell showcases what's possible when large language models and image-generation models run side by side on optimized infrastructure. Under the hood it uses:

  • Gemma 4 31B for narrative generation
  • Flux 2 Dev — a 32B-parameter image model (with a 9B Flux 2 Klein fallback) for real-time illustration
  • Modular Cloud for high-throughput model serving
  • Cloudflare for global delivery — the frontend, API, and image cache all run on Cloudflare's edge
  • Modular powered much of the code that built this app

How we made it

Inkwell was built almost entirely with AI. The full stack — Python backend, TypeScript edge worker, React frontend — was authored in collaboration with AI pair programmers across multiple frontier coding tools, with Modular powering the inference and coding, and Cloudflare handling the serving.

The inspiration was simple: Tim wanted to showcase the power of storytelling to his kids.

Created by Tim Davis, with enormous thanks to Eve Weinberg, Bill Welense, Michael Dunn-OConnor and others for their wonderful feedback. Built with Modular. We're hiring!

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