surpradhan/cartograph

Cartograph is a very early-stage project (2 days old, 1 star) that implements a standard 'deep research' agent pattern using LangGraph. While LangGraph is a powerful framework for stateful multi-agent systems, this project currently represents a common tutorial-level or personal experiment implementation rather than a novel contribution to the field. It faces immense competition from established open-source projects like GPT-Researcher (which has 12k+ stars and a much deeper feature set), Stanford's STORM, and commercial offerings like Perplexity's 'Pro Discovery' or OpenAI's internal research tools. The defensibility is near zero because it relies entirely on commodity LLM APIs and standard orchestration patterns provided by LangGraph. Frontier labs (OpenAI, Google) are rapidly integrating 'deep research' features directly into their chat interfaces, making standalone wrappers like this highly susceptible to obsolescence within months. There is no evidence of a unique dataset, a specialized search algorithm, or a significant community that would create a moat.