Documentary
Feature films and shorts built on exclusive, long-run access — brain implants, robot fight clubs, and one project we cannot talk about yet.
Independent sci-tech media company · est. 2025 · San Francisco
The Future. Now.
Core Memory makes films, shows, podcasts and longform reporting about the most interesting people, objects and ideas in science and technology. Secret longevity labs. Cutting-edge factories. Rocket launch sites. Fusion plants. Artificial intelligence labs. Peptide parties. All of it.
01 — The Studio
Part production company, part wordsmiths. We get into the top secret labs where the future is being built — and bring back the videos, the interviews and the raw reporting behind them.
Series
Seasons dedicated to the edge of what’s possible — brains, manufacturing, longevity, energy, defense, aerospace — rolled out weekly on YouTube.
Audio
The Core Memory podcast: long, unhurried conversations with the founders, engineers and scientists actually doing the work.
Longform & Scripted
Reported features and full interview archives on Substack, plus scripted shows and films in development from our books and stories.
Some of the people, places and tech from this year
02 — Selected Work
What’s Next
The Neuralink Story
The rise of brain-computer interface technology, from the lab benches to the operating room. Exclusive access to the people wiring computers directly into the human brain — and to the patients whose lives change the moment the implant switches on.
Made To Fight
Inside the robot fight clubs of San Francisco, where engineers spend their nights building machines to destroy each other — and where the city’s hardware scene has found its bloodsport.
AI Project
An upcoming film about artificial intelligence. That’s all we’ll say for now.
Core Memory Podcast
Hosted by Ashlee Vance with Kylie Robison. Sam Altman and Greg Brockman on the reset at OpenAI, Jennifer Doudna on gene editing, Palmer Luckey on the military of the future, Peter Beck on rockets, Priscilla Chan on curing disease. See the episodes →
Digital Videos
We go to the places that matter. A Neuralink patient meeting Elon Musk. Tesla’s Semi factory. Telescope ranchers, delivery drones, fusion machines and the robot fight clubs of San Francisco. Short documentaries every week at @CoreMemoryVideos. Watch the videos →
Books & Story IP
Two bestsellers so far — Elon Musk and When the Heavens Went on Sale — and a next book on artificial intelligence and OpenAI, with film rights already sold to a major Hollywood producer. We develop documentaries and scripted projects from our own exclusive IP, built on years of access to the most compelling figures in technology and science.
Where to watch and listen
Two channels
Channel 01
Digital Videos
Short documentaries, factory tours and field dispatches, shot and cut by our own crew. New every week at @CoreMemoryVideos.
See the videosChannel 02
The Podcast
Long-form interviews with the founders, scientists and engineers doing the work — Sam Altman, Jennifer Doudna, Palmer Luckey, Priscilla Chan, Peter Beck. In video and audio.
See the episodesPast work
What we made before this
Two films out in the world — Wild Wild Space (HBO) and Don’t Die (Netflix) — plus the documentaries, series and records our crew made on the way here.
Wild Wild Space
HBO · 2024 · dir. Ross Kauffman
Ashlee Vance & Jaye Callahan — producers
Don’t Die
Netflix · 2025 · dir. Chris Smith
Ashlee Vance — producer
Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Apple TV+ · 2023 · dir. Davis Guggenheim
Jaye Callahan — line producer
Louder Than You Think
SXSW · 2023 · dir. Jed I. Rosenberg
David Nicholson — cinematographer
0Films & series in production
0Podcast episodes
0Audience across all platforms
03 — Crew
The Team
A small crew that writes, shoots, cuts and ships — assembled out of Bloomberg, WIRED, The Verge and the HBO and Netflix documentary world.
04 — Shop
Merch, merch, merch
Caps, tees and hoodies with the Core Memory mark, printed and embroidered properly. Substack subscribers get 15% off at corememorymedia.com.
05 — Get in touch
Explore the future with us.
Subscribers get the films, the shows, the podcasts and the raw reporting behind them. Founding members — The Foundry — get private screenings and events with the people in our coverage.
Writers: we provide a home for stories that can become shows and movies — with proper compensation and credit. Pitch away.
Offices
- Silicon ValleyHeadquarters
- ChicagoSales, partnerships & editing
- New YorkBusiness & production
Direct lines
- Advertising & sponsorshipsaccounts@corememory.com · media kit
- Stories & pitchesashlee@corememory.com