Synapse

Walk a big maker event and you get a strong sense that things are connecting — that the person doing bioreactors and the person doing precision fermentation and the person doing food logistics are three parts of one story. You just can’t hold enough of the floor in your head at once to see it.

Synapse is that problem, made tractable. Give it the exhibitor table, let it enrich each entry with what they actually do and who they’re affiliated with, and it builds a single self-contained HTML application you can explore.

What it produces

Six views over the same data: personalised recommendations, a landscape overview, a searchable directory, a network graph of connections between fields, an opportunity map, and a convergence analysis.

The convergence view is the interesting one. Where two domains overlap, it classifies the intersection into one of four trajectory states — abundance, progress, stagnation, or collapse — which is an editorial judgement made explicit rather than left implied. You can disagree with a classification, and being able to disagree with it is the point.

Why it’s one HTML file

Because the output should outlive the tool. A self-contained page can be sent to someone, opened in five years, archived, or dropped straight onto a website without a server, a build step, or a running database behind it.

Status

Built and working. MIT licensed. Never formally released — no versioned download, no announcement. The source is public and the build system is Python; the application it emits is plain JavaScript.