irys

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.
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.
Those with taste can't bring it in. Those who want it can't get it out.
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.
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.
Curated. Proprietary. Continuously evolving.
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.
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.









Over 1 quadrillion discoverable Patterns. At 10 million discoveries a day, exhausting the map would take 270,000 years.
Where people explore taste. Navigate generated aesthetic worlds, understand the Symbols and lineage behind them.
Part inspiration platform, part educational system.
Where professionals build with taste. Compose with Symbols instead of prompts, applying one Pattern across any subject.
Creative direction becomes structured, reusable, and persistent.
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irys began with the asset, not the model. The initial archive is complete; expert validation and the MVP are underway.
Taxonomy and visual language complete.
References and language in, Patterns out.
Symbol decoding and Pattern discovery.
Founding ambassadors signed.
Reaching under 1% of the world's 303M+ creators gets irys to $1B ARR. SOURCE: ADOBE FUTURE OF CREATIVITY · 2022

Leadership, product and brand direction, and network.

Core product, data architecture, and infrastructure.

Core intelligence, modeling, and machine learning systems.

Growth, consumer funnels, and product-led acquisition.

Brand and product design, content, and social.

MTS, The Bot Company (ex-Snap). Author of 15+ publications across CVPR, SIGGRAPH, AAAI, and ICCV.
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.
Transform the symbolic archive into a production product. ~12 months runway.
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