About Constellate

Make your favorite texts visually alive

Some books ask a lot of their readers. A Russian novel where every character carries three names and a diminutive. A history where generals, ministers, and their sons blur together across four hundred pages. A scripture whose genealogies span generations. The thread is there — but holding it in your head while you read is real work.

Constellate is dedicated to that work of learning through exploration. Upload a text — a sprawling story, a history book, a work of non-fiction — and we chart its cast as a living constellation: every figure a star, every relationship a line, every claim grounded in a short passage from the text itself. Aliases get untangled, families and factions get their own colors, and the person you keep forgetting is one search away.

We built it for readers first: book clubs mid-epic, students facing a course reader, teachers handing a class a map instead of a list, and anyone who loves a text enough to want to see it whole. The map is not a substitute for reading — it is a companion that makes the reading richer, and it deliberately quotes only slivers of the source so the book itself stays the destination.

Constellate is built by Blue Lagoon Consulting Services, the studio behind Anbiya, an interactive explorer of the Qur'an's prophets. Constellate grew from a simple observation: the joy of seeing a text's web of people laid out visually shouldn't be limited to one book — it belongs to every book you care about.

Curious how the charting works?
The FAQ explains how figures, groups, and relationships are drawn from your text — and how to get the most out of the graph.