Verbatim Index: LLM judges blind-rank 50 tech leaders on the thinking in their public speech

tonygwu · x · 2026-10-01

Tony Wu open-sourced Verbatim Index, which ranks 50 well-known tech leaders purely on the thinking their public speech demonstrates — graded blind by three LLM judges from verbatim transcripts of interviews, podcasts and keynotes, with company performance and reputation excluded. Full rankings, methodology, transcripts, code, rubric and harness are on GitHub. A sibling project, Verbatim Predictions, converts the same transcripts into an auditable index of falsifiable predictions, each grounded in a timestamped quote.

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