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Librairie Limited,
5th Floor, Trinity
16 John Dalton Street
Manchester M2 6HY
Investments
Red Stamp — TV & Film production and post.
Awards: Royal Television Society, Kendal Mountain Festival, Kiel Ocean Festival, North Sea Surf Film Festival, London Film Gala.
Company
VAT number 288803067
All enquiries: Hello@Librairie.ai
Team
The idea is to try and do very, very clever stuff, stay extremely small, and use as much AI as possible. It's not exactly a business plan, but it is extremely interesting, and the organisations engaged with are there to see. Librairie is owned by Oxford academic/media entrepreneur Dr Alex Connock. Partners on projects include coder/academic Gordon Fletcher, McKinsey alum and former CEO at eBay Australia and PetCulture Simon Smith, UX and digital product design expert Simon Richards (most recently at HSBC) and award-winning documentary film producer Connor Langley at Red Stamp.
AI Skunkworks
Experimental Gen AI media apps in the lab. These are just some UX ideas we're testing. Don’t rely on them for information yet.
The Shakespeare LabThe Shakespeare Lab

Academic papers agent

EU TV Formats

Agentic True Crime hunt

Agent creates dating formats

Media company market moves

SegmenterAgentic market overviews

AI in Real LifeWorkplace AI scenes

Global TV DramasOn-air commissions

Agentic news feed

Who Wants What

AI ExtraAI tools catalogue

Distant SignalsAgentic research for Film & TV

Leading AI AssessmentMeasuring AI readiness

App BuilderBuild apps faster

SyntheticAI media news

Video App TrackerTrack video apps
Ethical MarketerEthics quiz

SuperPower StartupsStartup quiz

Showbiz AgentAgentic business model evaluation

Vibe-CheckerCommunication review

Netflix AudienceSynthetic global viewers

The Bach Lab

AI Design BriefDesign briefs

AI TV Post ToolsShoot to TX

Carbon ScenariosCarbon modelling

Design BossDesign direction

Drama BriefWeekly drama roundup

OK ComputerInstant AI Dashboards

Pitch LabEnd-to-End Ideas discovery and testing

Quota Deficit DeskAgentic EU works quotas tracking

Right WriterWriting assistant

TV Co-Pro War GameAI Financing scenario tracking

Keyside LIVELive news flow

Swiss TV · New showsNew shows on Swiss television, with public social following and a plain reading of recent sentiment.

Warner Bros Scandinavia trackerProgramming news/analysis from Warner Bros Discovery across Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland and Iceland.

Map drawer · newly published orienteering maps

Podcastable

Dubbing Dividend

AI Video WallAI VIDEO WALL — creative uses of video AI tools, pulled from X.

AI PlayersAI Players — key video quotes from major AI industry players and analysts, as seen on X.

Accelerate — Fastest Growing Diplomatic Conversations on XFastest growing diplomatic conversations on X — EU UK US. Ranked by hour-on-hour acceleration, not volume.

Marketing GurusMarketing Gurus — video quotes from leading marketing scholars, brand marketers, and agency leaders, as seen on X and YouTube.

Spheres of Influence — UK Corporate Comms UniverseUK Corporate Comms Universe — publicly evidenced PR relationships for the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250

Lecture Common Room — Crowd-Sourced Live Lecture Blog

Political Deep Fakes

Oxford Classical — church & concert listings

Attention Forecaster — by Alex ConnockPaste a YouTube, X or Instagram video URL — deconstruct cuts, faces, hooks and on-screen text into a priced attention curve. By Alex Connock, Librairie.ai.

The Moment — Alex ConnockHalf live cultural news follower, half instant music-video wall. By Alex Connock, Librairie.ai

AI at the conferencesWhat people actually said about AI on the media-conference floor. Headlines open the original reporting.

CLIPHUNTERShort podcast clip hunter

AI in Management — Extra readings

Second Brain News — Weekly best practice for Claude second brainsWeekly best practice for second brains built in Anthropic's Claude — news, X, video wall. By Alex Connock, Librairie.ai

The College Library — Manchester SkyscrapersResearch deep dives across topic folders — a short pictorial on Manchester’s towers, drone plates and the Beetham row.

Researcher: Bromance — Modern male friendship, platonic bromance & male mental healthDaily magazine on modern male friendship, platonic bromance and male mental health.

The Treatment — UK Infrastructure Adoption IntelligenceThe Treatment: UK road and sewer adoption intelligence — market intel (bonds, adoption desk) plus analytical pass on s38, s104, SuDS, water regulation and housebuilder news. By Alex Connock, Librairie.ai. Public data only.

SMC Cymru Dispatch — Social Media Conference Cymru, Cardiff, 30 Sep 2026Trade newspaper coverage of Social Media Conference Cymru 2026 at Holland House, Cardiff. Sourced agenda, speakers and attributed public remarks.

AI-driven course managerAi in Management

The Austen LabThe Austen Lab: the six novels and her other works as globes hung in the air over a pencil drawing of a country house, flown through in three dimensions, in the colours of when she first wrote them; the subjects — marriage, money, property, judgment and the rest — as the threads

The Dickens LabThe Dickens Lab: the fifteen novels and his other works as globes hung in the air over a pencil drawing of London by night, flown through in three dimensions, each novel as large as it is long and in the colour of its themes; the subjects — childhood, crime, money, the city and t

Claude ArtifactTry out Artifacts created by Claude users

The Flaubert LabThe Flaubert Lab: Gustave Flaubert’s six major works and his other writings as globes hung in the air over a pencil drawing of Yonville’s square, flown through in three dimensions, in the colours of when he wrote them; the subjects — desire, money, received language, religion and
