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Librairie is an ideas lab

Exploring how business can use agentic AI.
Starting with media - but going broader.

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Recent Talks

BBC (London)ITV Studios (London)Fox Studios (Los Angeles)Warner Bros Discovery (Germany)Aardman (Bristol)Sister Pictures (London)Big Talk (London)Quay Street (Manchester)House Productions (London)Kantar (London)Kudos (London)South Shore (London)PubMatic (Loch Lomond)Team GB (London)ScreenSkills (London)UN Tourism (Andorra)British Retail Council (London)phd / Omnicom (Dubai)Hortons (Leicester)Great Futures (Riyadh)Meta (London)UNICEF (London)Copenhagen TV FestivalFuture Week (Bergen)Sheridan's (London)European Broadcasting Union (Mainz)Brewin Dolphin (Manchester)Palma Pictures (Majorca)Promon (Oslo)Copenhagen Entertainment/Media Law AssociationPathe (London)CIMIX (Vienna)IEE (Madrid)Salesforce (US)International Advertising Association (London)Mediterranean Tourism Association (Malta)Liberty Global (Rome)Yieldmo (London)VEVO (London)YPO Riga (Latvia)BBC (Wales)BBC (Los Angeles)Warner Bros Discovery (Scandinavia)UK Government (multiple)Goldman Sachs (London)Social Media Conference (Cardiff)Armenia/UK Business Forum (Yerevan)

Contact

Address

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.

https://redstamp-productions.com

Company

Company number 10847355
VAT number 288803067

Email

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

Preview of The Shakespeare Lab

Academic papers agent

Preview of Academic papers agent

EU TV Formats

Preview of EU TV Formats

Agentic True Crime hunt

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Agent creates dating formats

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Media company market moves

Preview of Media company market moves

SegmenterAgentic market overviews

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AI in Real LifeWorkplace AI scenes

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Global TV DramasOn-air commissions

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Agentic news feed

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Who Wants What

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AI ExtraAI tools catalogue

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Distant SignalsAgentic research for Film & TV

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Leading AI AssessmentMeasuring AI readiness

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App BuilderBuild apps faster

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SyntheticAI media news

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Video App TrackerTrack video apps

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Ethical MarketerEthics quiz

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SuperPower StartupsStartup quiz

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Showbiz AgentAgentic business model evaluation

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Vibe-CheckerCommunication review

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Netflix AudienceSynthetic global viewers

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The Bach Lab

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AI Design BriefDesign briefs

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AI TV Post ToolsShoot to TX

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Carbon ScenariosCarbon modelling

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Design BossDesign direction

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Drama BriefWeekly drama roundup

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OK ComputerInstant AI Dashboards

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Pitch LabEnd-to-End Ideas discovery and testing

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Quota Deficit DeskAgentic EU works quotas tracking

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Right WriterWriting assistant

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TV Co-Pro War GameAI Financing scenario tracking

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Keyside LIVELive news flow

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

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

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Map drawer · newly published orienteering maps

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Podcastable

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Dubbing Dividend

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

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

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

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

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

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Lecture Common Room — Crowd-Sourced Live Lecture Blog

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Political Deep Fakes

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Oxford Classical — church & concert listings

Preview of 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.

Preview of Attention Forecaster — by Alex Connock

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

Preview of The Moment — Alex Connock

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

Preview of AI at the conferences

CLIPHUNTERShort podcast clip hunter

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AI in Management — Extra readings

Preview of 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

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

Preview of The College Library — Manchester Skyscrapers

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

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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.

Preview of The Treatment — UK Infrastructure Adoption Intelligence

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.

Preview of SMC Cymru Dispatch — Social Media Conference Cymru, Cardiff, 30 Sep 2026

AI-driven course managerAi in Management

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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

Preview of The Austen Lab

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

Preview of The Dickens Lab

Claude ArtifactTry out Artifacts created by Claude users

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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

Preview of The Flaubert Lab