Archive - Preproduction by Redspring

What we learned building a murder mystery with Lemony Snicket

Jul 23 • Loren Riesenfeld and Obssa Bizuwork

June 2026

OCR’ing 100,000 pages with open-source VLMs on Modal

We wanted to answer a simple question: what does it actually take to OCR a large document corpus using open-source vision-language models?

Jun 25 • Loren Riesenfeld and Obssa Bizuwork

July 2025

We Benchmarked Frontier Reasoning Models on The Atlantic's Bracket City

I’ve been obsessed with The Atlantic’s new word game, Bracket City.

Jul 15, 2025 • Loren Riesenfeld

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