A marked passage, a digital closet and a character card

ROSS Intelligence, Chicisimo and Backyard AI gave people different ways to tell software what mattered. A lawyer could highlight a passage in an opinion. A shopper could start with clothes she already owned. A writer could describe a character before the first line of dialogue.

ROSS Intelligence: follow the language of a case

ROSS let researchers ask a legal question in ordinary language. Once an opinion turned up, they could select the passage that caught their attention and search for other opinions with similar wording. A case overview could summarize an opinion in the context of the original question. The product also surfaced when a case had been questioned or overturned, a separate check from finding a matching phrase. The opinion you were already reading could become the next search. ROSS's product feature guide

The founders announced that the platform would become unavailable on January 31, 2021. The exact final access day has not been independently measured. Announcement · ROSS Intelligence archive

Chicisimo: build an outfit from clothes you have

In the founder's account, the early iPhone app used a slider to make browsing outfit ideas quick. The team later built a digital closet. A shopper could add garments and get suggested combinations, or look through photographs of real people wearing pieces like the ones in her closet. The founder describes two jobs the team had to do together: make it easy for someone to say what she owned or what she was dressing for, and build a system that could act on that information. A separate engineering note describes the classification underneath. It separated a retailer's specific garment from attributes that could outlast the listing, such as its colour, neckline and occasion. That let the system look for a similar item or assemble an outfit from the clothes a shopper already had. Founder’s product retrospective · Clothes classifier

The original consumer app later closed. Its archive preserves the closure evidence and its date limitations. Chicisimo archive

Backyard AI: write the character before starting the scene

Backyard AI's character editor separated a character's persona and scenario from the lines that established how they spoke. A writer could supply sample dialogue, then write the first message the character would actually send. For example, a fictional station attendant could open by asking where you're headed before the writer typed anything. The card set the stage as well as describing who was on it. Backyard's guide suggested taking a reply that sounded right, editing it, and saving it as an example for a new conversation. That gave writers a way to refine a character's voice between scenes. Archived Backyard AI character guide

The operator has confirmed the cloud service ended and the self-service archive window closed. Shutdown notice · Backyard AI archive