Without a picture of the whole field, work becomes motion that feels useful and changes nothing. So we take all of it: every company, every result, every argument. And the map has to go past who does what, to the hierarchy of problems, to what causes what, and to how new ideas get made at all. We study the thinking itself.
Omega Point resultsAbout Eternal Search
Whatever it takes to stay alive
Three principles
The job is bigger than human hands can cover, and AI agents are the only way to scale it. Head count in longevity grows slowly; the number of agents can grow ten or a hundred times in a year. That is how we hold the whole field in view, reason harder about it, and work on ageing at every level, from the cell to society.
Understanding that arrives late is worth nothing. Everything we learn has to end in a tool someone can use the same day: a verified grant, a rated project, a readable protocol, a next step. The output is always an instrument, ready now.
Open questions
Five questions we have not answered yet
These five decide what we build, what we track, and what we publish. Choose them badly and the years and the money go into finding that out.
- How should our strategy change depending on how complex we believe ageing to be?See the twelve levels
- How do we choose which hypotheses to test first? And how is that decided?
- Where exactly are the bottlenecks? In science, money, culture, politics, or language? And how can we overcome them?
- How can we create a cultural pattern that encourages interest in extending the life of a specific person?
- In which arena does the fight against death primarily take place?
Live field mapWhat we are already tracking
874grants catalogued
19verified open grants
435companies researched
70projects rated
2,640scientific concepts mapped
What we do
How do you make sense of a field?
- Gather all the information
- Establish cause and effect
- Find the hidden variables
- Locate the bottlenecks and the best points to intervene
Make the field observable
Significant events should quickly become part of a checkable picture: with sources, dates, participants, connections, and a stated level of confidence. That makes it easier to see what happened, how far it can be trusted, and what the event changes in what we believed.
Build institutional memory
The field needs accumulating dossiers on people, organisations, events, and trends: what we know, what changed, and why. That memory lets work continue across years and changes of people, keeping the decisions that worked, the failures, and the open questions.
Turn information into explanation
The same event should be available in several understandable forms: a short signal, a deep investigation, a visual story, context for a specialist, and a next step for a participant. Every form keeps its link to the sources and the limits of what is actually known.
Turn attention into action
For every material that matters we should know who it is useful to and what opportunity it opens: to study, to verify, to fund, to join, to contribute data, to change a practice, or to carry an argument further. Understanding has its own value; anyone ready to act needs a next step within reach.
Public understanding
In the end, style decides everything
A field does not advance through databases alone. People need language, images, arguments, and stories that make the science understandable, the disagreements visible, and the goal of defeating ageing culturally serious.
01News
06Film
We draw on 2,000 sources every day. Discoveries, trials, companies, funding, and the public decisions that change the field.
→02EssaysState positions, develop ideas, and argue about scientific and strategic choices in public.
→03PostersTurn scientific papers into visual explanations that can be understood, shared, and printed.
→04ProtocolsOrganise evidence for interventions while keeping uncertainty and limits visible.
→05PresentationsBuild maps for the largest questions: what ageing is, how difficult it may be, and which strategies follow from each answer.
→06FilmLONGEVITY is a 90-minute documentary shot inside the labs where ageing is being taken apart: cryopreservation, genome editing, and the animals that barely age at all. Co-produced by Open Longevity, in production for 2027.
→Work with us
If we’re on the same wavelength
Bring us a project, dataset, correction, partnership, grant, event, essay, visual idea, or hard question. Useful cooperation can begin at any point on the map.
Make a prediction
Price an open prognosis on the longevity market. Credits are free, every position is public, and the leaderboard records who was right.
→Run your agent on our APIPublic-tier endpoints — grants, events, search, ratings, stats — work without a key, so an agent can build content on verified data instead of scraped guesswork.
→Fund Eternal SearchThe platform is run by Open Longevity, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Money here buys discovery capacity: more grants verified, more companies rated, more of it public.
→Tell us your strategyIf you fund, build, or research ageing with a thesis of your own, tell us what it is and where you think the rest of the field has it wrong.
→Show us your creative workEssays, posters, exhibitions, film, design. Longevity has to be understood, not only researched, and we publish work that makes it visible.
→Tell us about yourselfScientist, founder, funder, writer, organiser, or none of those. Say who you are and what you can actually do, and we will find where it fits.
→Judge our hypothesesEvery rated project exposes its per-dimension scores, the reasoning behind them, and the evidence each one rests on. Pull it through the API and tell us where the scoring is wrong.
→You do not need to fit a category. You need a concrete way to help the field understand ageing or move closer to defeating it.
Open Longevity
Built inside a US nonprofit
Eternal Search is a project of Open Longevity, a California nonprofit public benefit corporation recognised by the IRS as tax-exempt under section 501(c)(3). EIN 85-2518777. Sherman Oaks, California.
Join the work
The map gets better when the field answers back
Tell us what we missed. Show us the project that deserves support. Disagree with a rating. Propose an essay or poster. Bring an institution, a dataset, a grant, or a question worth organising around.