About Cognograph

The Product

Cognograph is a spatial AI workflow canvas — a tool for people who think by arranging things. Instead of linear chat threads, you work on an infinite canvas where every conversation, terminal, note, and artifact is a node. Connect them with edges and context flows between them automatically.

Ask a question in one node, and it already knows what's in the nodes you've connected to it. Run a terminal command, and the output feeds into the next conversation. Generate an image, and it appears as an artifact you can connect to anything else.

The Builder

Cognograph is built by Stefan Kovalik — a full-stack designer and developer with 15 years of experience and a background in Cognitive Psychology from UC Santa Barbara.

Stefan's work sits at the intersection of how people think and how software should respond. His methodology, Perception-First Design, applies processing fluency, decision architecture, and cognitive load theory to build interfaces that feel right before you consciously evaluate them.

Cognograph grew from a frustration with linear AI workflows. Thinking isn't linear — it's spatial, associative, and contextual. The canvas reflects that. Four provisional patents cover the spatial trigger mechanisms that make it work.

Open Source

Cognograph is open source under AGPL-3.0. You can inspect every line of code, audit the security model, and self-host if you prefer. The cloud service exists for convenience — not lock-in.

Contact

General inquiries: [email protected]

Bug reports and feature requests: GitHub Issues