method

the lanes

the corpus was produced by two parallel agent research lanes — one covering company history, people, and product; one covering coverage, sentiment, and the fast-edit-model idea — each writing a lane report against lane-prefixed scratch source catalogs before synthesis merged them into one typed catalog. the pattern is the company-research formula proven on roam-research and obsidian: per-claim confidence, dated sources, and a declared deduplication owner.

the evidence rules

1. every event, quote, and claim carries at least one source id.
2. dates keep their precision — a year, a month, or a day — and approximate dates are labeled rather than sharpened.
3. confidence stays honest: confirmed, reported, and inferred are distinct claims, not stages of the same claim.
4. sources are typed by role — primary, interview, reporting, archive, community, reference, repo — so a claim's foundation is visible before it is read.
5. sentiment labels describe the coverage, not the truth of it.

known gaps

1. every speed and accuracy figure is vendor-reported; no independent shared benchmark compares morph against relace, open weights, or frontier-native editing.
2. morph's own product pages disagree — v3-fast accuracy at 96% or 98%, v3-large speed at ~2,500 to ~5,000 tok/s, context windows from 16k to 262k, compact at 33,000 or 3,300+ tok/s. the inconsistencies are preserved, not resolved.
3. total funding is unknown: the ~$500k yc-linked figure conflicts on date, the $19m aggregator figures trace to morph l2, and no form d or primary round announcement exists.
4. vlad lezhnin's co-founder/cto role rests on his linkedin headline alone; the yc directory lists only bhakta.
5. the customer list is partially unverified — jetbrains, vercel, and webflow are uncorroborated; continue and kilo code are documented; cline and roo code proposals never shipped.
6. cursor's current apply architecture is private; whether morph powers any part of it is unestablished and not claimed here.
7. the announced inline edit model and tab api have no public release evidence; whether they shipped, folded, or died is unrecorded.
8. morph-internal adoption telemetry — daily apply volume, customer concentration, churn — exists only in vendor materials, if at all.

corrections

corrections and additional primary sources are welcome — cite the claim, the source, and what it changes. the catalog is designed to be audited, not just read.