Taste Intelligence (TI)
Pre-Seed
Founder irys
Guido Callarelli
Guido Callarelli

20 years of creative direction across fashion, luxury, and culture.

Born in Italy, Guido built his career inside the industry's most influential design spheres.

Worked at the core of DONDA with Kanye West and Virgil Abloh, contributing to one of the most influential creative systems of the last decade.

Built and led two creative agencies, closing and delivering high-value engagements across fashion, luxury, and cultural sectors.

Bridges creative direction and technical product building, having shipped digital platforms and product systems alongside engineering teams.

Founded and scaled a talent platform placing 100+ professionals, building teams across design, digital, and business roles.

Supreme Versace Nike Kanye West Off-White The Attico DONDA Valentino Kelly Wearstler Zendaya
Problem irys

Taste in AI is trapped behind prompts.

Taste is already inside today's models. They contain every major aesthetic ever learned, but it remains buried behind prompts, statistical averaging, and trial-and-error with no structured way to access it.

Creatives fight to bring their taste in. They prompt, iterate, and get something close.
Never the thing. Never consistently.
Everyone else struggles to get taste out. Without structure, it can only be learned through years of observation, references, and proximity.

Those with taste can't bring it in. Those who want it can't get it out.

Solution irys
Motif
Style
Material
Palette
Texture
Mood
Form

Build the world's first symbolic language of taste.

Instead of describing taste through prompts, irys represents it through Symbols.

A Symbol is a curated aesthetic concept that AI can interpret consistently. Instead of describing an aesthetic with increasingly complex prompts, users select Symbols that already represent it.

Symbols are reusable and composable into Patterns: discoverable aesthetic identities.

Asset irys

nos · the cultural archive behind
the Symbols.

nos is the world's first archive of taste. It captures humanity's visual culture in a proprietary coordinate system, forming the foundation from which every Symbol is curated and every Pattern is discovered.

The taxonomy is designed to represent taste consistently across creative disciplines.

6,000
manually curated Symbols
12
Symbol typologies · 5 Culture, 7 Craft

Curated. Proprietary. Continuously evolving.

Patterns irys

Symbols compose Patterns.
The community discovers them.

A Pattern is a discoverable aesthetic identity. It is a persistent, reusable expression of taste that can be applied consistently across different subjects and creative disciplines.

When a Pattern is discovered for the first time, irys recognizes it as unique, assigns it a canonical identity, and attributes the discovery to its first discoverer. Every identical composition always resolves to the original Pattern.
Discovery is first come and irreversible.

Discovered Pattern
Marble Quattrocento

Florence, 15th century. Carrara marble held in north-lit studio calm, diffuse, cool, morally certain. A single point of warm gold interrupts the cold field. Bilateral monolithic geometry, carved and hewn.

Italian Rationalism
STYLE
Champagne Silk
PALETTE
Carrara Marble
MATERIAL
Brass
MATERIAL
Rectangle
FORM
Honed Matte
TEXTURE
Furniture
Fashion
Product

Over 1 quadrillion discoverable Patterns. At 10 million discoveries a day, exhausting the map would take 270,000 years.

Product irys

irys · Discover

Where people explore taste. Navigate generated aesthetic worlds, understand the Symbols and lineage behind them.
Part inspiration platform, part educational system.

Restraint
Excess
irys
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1,204,857discovered
You discovered Moral Minimalism.
Open it in Design →
Ask Libra
Moral Minimalism

irys · Design

Where professionals build with taste. Compose with Symbols instead of prompts, applying one Pattern across any subject.
Creative direction becomes structured, reusable, and persistent.

Daybed · 03
Club Chair · 02
Bottle · 01
irys
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2,480credits
Ask Libra
+4
Moral Minimalism
Dining Chair
Progress irys

The foundation is being built.

irys began with the asset, not the model. The initial archive is complete; expert validation and the MVP are underway.

Streamline ModerneSTYLEMyrtle BurlMATERIALFoliated KuficLETTERFORMCobalt TealPALETTESexpartite VaultSTRUCTURERuyi CloudMOTIFBroodingMOODCardioidFORMZellijTECHNIQUEAlençon LaceTEXTUREFilm-Noir Low-KeyLIGHTINGKallitypeTREATMENTNazcaSTYLELanguedoc MarbleMATERIALKagomeMOTIFCelestialMOODTractrixFORMKalamkari Pen-WorkTECHNIQUEClerestory Shaft DaylightLIGHTINGLabradorite Spectral FlashPALETTE
Oracle Bone ScriptLETTERFORMScissor StructureSTRUCTUREStalactite DripTEXTUREHan DynastySTYLEMu-metalMATERIALAtomic BoomerangMOTIFAsceticMOODShouldered ArchFORMDevoré BurnoutTECHNIQUEContact SheetTREATMENTGold-Ground Divine RadianceLIGHTINGViridian Hydrated ChromiumPALETTETapa ClothMATERIALChancery ItalicLETTERFORMSmocked ConstructionSTRUCTUREWind ErosionTEXTURECollegiate GothicSTYLEKeys of HeavenMOTIFExuberantMOODBoulder MassFORM
Kerf BendingTECHNIQUEVandyke Brown PrintTREATMENTAurora Curtain GlowLIGHTINGRhubarb Root YellowPALETTEPadparadschaMATERIALTironian NotaeLETTERFORMGuyed MastSTRUCTURETufa PoreTEXTUREBiomorphic SurrealismSTYLEMorning StarMOTIFDistilledMOODLozengeFORMBogolanfini Mud-DyeingTECHNIQUELimelight Stage GlowLIGHTINGGraphite Slate GreyPALETTESquare Kufic BannaiLETTERFORMJack ArchSTRUCTUREChenille TuftedTEXTUREMezzotintTREATMENTAmbergrisMATERIAL
Belgian SurrealismSTYLERealgar Orpiment Arsenic PairPALETTECloisteredMOODTruncated TetrahedronFORMKhadi PaperMATERIALJain YantraMOTIFBurmese Round ScriptLETTERFORMElliptical DomeSTRUCTURESoumak WeavingTECHNIQUEBrocade RaisedTEXTURECove Lighting WashLIGHTINGTinting and ToningTREATMENTWarring StatesSTYLERapakivi GraniteMATERIALMonMOTIFAustereMOODRound ArchFORMPargetingTECHNIQUESkylight DiffusionLIGHTINGMaison La RochePALETTE
Northwest Coast FormlineSTYLECyberpunk LA SmogPALETTEDawningMOODCompressed MassFORMStelliteMATERIALDreamcatcherMOTIFGaray ScriptLETTERFORMFloating FoundationSTRUCTURERose CutTECHNIQUEWarp KnitTEXTUREBlowtorch FlameLIGHTINGLaser PrintTREATMENTNeo-RenaissanceSTYLEAfromosiaMATERIALWireframe GlobeMOTIFEcstaticMOODQuadrifoliumFORMTattingTECHNIQUEParking-Garage Sodium SpillLIGHTINGSongket Gold BrocadePALETTE
01
6,000 Symbols curated

Taxonomy and visual language complete.

02
Decoding pipeline working

References and language in, Patterns out.

03
Interactive MVP underway

Symbol decoding and Pattern discovery.

04
Advisory board forming

Founding ambassadors signed.

Business irys

Creator-first. Professional and enterprise tier up.

StageCreator $25/moProfessional $50/moCustom (Enterprise / Education)ARR
Foundation3,0001005~$1M
Growth30,0001,00050~$10M
Platform300,00010,000500~$100M+
Global3M100,0005,000~$1B+

Reaching under 1% of the world's 303M+ creators gets irys to $1B ARR. SOURCE: ADOBE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY · 2022

Team irys

Creative direction meets engineering.

Guido Callarelli
Guido Callarelli
Founder & CEO

Leadership, product and brand direction, and network.

Taylor Flynn
Taylor Flynn
LOI signed
Founding Full-Stack Engineer

Core product, data architecture, and infrastructure.

Founding AI/ML Engineer
Founding AI/ML Engineer
In progress · LOI model

Core intelligence, modeling, and machine learning systems.

Founding GTM Engineer
Founding GTM Engineer
In progress · LOI model

Growth, consumer funnels, and product-led acquisition.

Mahnoor Rafi
Mahnoor Rafi
LOI signed
Founding Designer · ex-Apple

Brand and product design, content, and social.

Mikhail Vasilkovskii
Mikhail Vasilkovskii
Founding Technical Advisor

MTS, The Bot Company (ex-Snap). Author of 15+ publications across CVPR, SIGGRAPH, AAAI, and ICCV.

Advisory board of historians and domain experts forming · founding ambassadors signed
Vision

Give Intelligence an Eye.

Language gave intelligence a voice. Symbols give intelligence an eye.

What begins as a platform for discovering and designing with taste becomes an ever-growing symbolic representation of humanity's aesthetic knowledge.

Just as language became the foundation for modern AI, we believe symbolic representations of taste can become the foundation for a new generation of culturally aware creative intelligence, fluent across disciplines, and capable of carrying our history forward.

Raise irys

$1M Pre-Seed · SAFE

Transform the symbolic archive into a production product. ~12 months runway.

Allocation
Founding Team60%
Compute & Data20%
Legal6%
Ops & Reserve14%
Roadmap
MONTH 2
Alpha
Selected users
MONTH 4
Closed beta
Design partners
MONTH 6
Public launch
MONTH 8
Seed opens
From a launched product
MONTH 12
Seed closes
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