The Brains
In short: The Brains is a open-source productivity AI tool. Product Hunt launch Oct 21, 2026: turns public talks, essays and posts from founders/CEOs/investors into searchable MCP servers for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or Codex—every answer cites a source link. ~37 brains at launch, free MIT, unofficial and not affiliated with the people. Coverage is only what those people published publicly. X Buzz Score: 28/100 (55 posts in 7 days).
Verdict: Product Hunt launch Oct 21, 2026: turns public talks, essays and posts from founders/CEOs/investors into searchable MCP servers for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or Codex—every answer cites a source link. ~37 brains at launch, free MIT, unofficial and not affiliated with the people. Coverage is only what those people published publicly.
Use this if you want cited advice in the style of specific public founders inside your MCP client, not another uncited chat persona.
Live X Buzz Score
X 28/100 Steady updated 22 Oct, 09:16 HKT
Daily X posts, last 7 days (oldest → today): 3 · 11 · 20 · 5 · 3 · 6 · 7. Score parts: volume 17.5/50, spike 0/25, engagement 11/25. Method
No standout X posts yet (we only show posts with 100+ likes or 10K+ views).
Alternatives
- Perplexity: Answer engine with citations; fast research instead of ten blue links.
- Notion: All-in-one workspace with Notion AI for docs and Q&A.
Similar AI tools
- Claude: Excellent for long documents, writing and careful coding help.
- Mercury 3: Inception's new diffusion LLM, launched Oct 19, 2026, writes many tokens in parallel instead of one at a time: 1,068 tokens/sec on NVIDIA GPUs, a 1M-token context window, tool calling and structured outputs. Inception says it beats GPT-6 Luna and Claude Haiku 5.5 on standard benchmarks (vendor numbers). API pricing is $0.20 / $0.70 per million input / output tokens, half price at launch, and it is also on Vercel AI Gateway.
- CleanYourTV: Free, open-source (MIT) kit that debloats Android TV and Google TV sets over Wi-Fi with Claude Code or another coding agent: it switches off ad and tracking packages and swaps the ad-filled home screen for a clean Apple TV-style launcher. No root, nothing is uninstalled, and one command restores it. The GitHub repo was created on Oct 17, 2026 and passed 5,300 stars in three days after its creator's demo went viral on X (he reports 4.8M views).
- Claude Code: Terminal-based coding agent that edits and runs your repo.
- Headroom: Open-source (Apache 2.0) context compression layer for AI agents: it strips repeated boilerplate from tool outputs, logs, files, JSON and RAG chunks before they reach the model, claiming about 20% fewer tokens for coding agents and 60-95% fewer for JSON. Ships as a library, proxy and MCP server; 76K GitHub stars and on the daily Trending list Oct 19, 2026.
- ChatGPT: The default general assistant; strong all-rounder with a huge plugin and GPT ecosystem.
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FAQ
What is The Brains?
Product Hunt launch Oct 21, 2026: turns public talks, essays and posts from founders/CEOs/investors into searchable MCP servers for Claude, Cursor, ChatGPT or Codex—every answer cites a source link. ~37 brains at launch, free MIT, unofficial and not affiliated with the people. Coverage is only what those people published publicly.
Who should use The Brains?
Use The Brains if you want cited advice in the style of specific public founders inside your MCP client, not another uncited chat persona.
Is The Brains free?
The Brains is listed as open-source.
What are alternatives to The Brains?
Alternatives include Perplexity, Notion, Claude, Mercury 3.
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