06 · THE MOAT
Anyone could start. Almost no one will finish.
There is no shortcut. Every sample is written by a real human hand, page after page, person after person. A balanced, multi-language motion corpus is a slow, physical process that takes years to build.
smart pens
field teams
per-pen calibration
signed consent
thousands of writers
years of longitudinal tracking
THE MOAT IS TIME
Years of real hands,
page by page.
We're already collecting. By the time anyone else begins, our corpus is years ahead, and a dataset built by hand cannot be rushed.