The Problem: AI Conferences Are Everywhere and Nowhere

If you’ve ever tried to find a comprehensive list of upcoming AI conferences, you know the pain. There’s no single source. AAAI has their page. NeurIPS has theirs. ICML posts deadlines on OpenReview. Half the emerging summits only exist on LinkedIn event pages or buried in Reddit threads.

I wanted a simple, searchable directory of AI conferences — one site where I could see what’s coming up, filter by topic, and get the key details. But I didn’t want to manually curate it. I’ve seen too many “awesome lists” on GitHub that are lovingly maintained for three months and then abandoned.

The Problem: PDFs Are Knowledge Prisons

You know that feeling when you download a brilliant research paper, only to realize you can’t easily feed it into your AI workflow? Or when you want to add documentation to your knowledge base, but it’s locked in a format that doesn’t play well with version control or LLM tools?

Yeah, I was there last week.

I had just downloaded a fascinating 1.3MB research paper on Generative Engine Optimization and wanted to process it with my AI tools. But PDFs are terrible for this. They’re designed for printing, not for processing. What I needed was Markdown—clean, portable, AI-friendly Markdown.