Signal intelligence engine
pronounced “Early”

EMOTIONAL
RESONANCE
& LEARNING
AI

ERLAI generates weekly cultural momentum scores for beauty brands — surfacing what communities are about to care about before purchase data reflects it.

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ERLAI
CURRENTLY POWERING FANTASY BEAUTY LEAGUE · fantasybeautyleague.com ↗
Rhode SkinCCI 94.2▲ +8.4
NaturiumCCI 87.1▲ +5.2
Tower 28CCI 81.7▲ +3.1
Glow RecipeCCI 76.3◆ 0.0
Rare BeautyCCI 71.8▼ −2.3
Drunk ElephantCCI 68.4▲ +1.7
e.l.f. BeautyCCI 62.0▼ −4.1
Summer FridaysCCI 59.3▲ +6.8
KosasCCI 57.1▲ +2.2
Fenty BeautyCCI 54.8▼ −1.0
Charlotte TilburyCCI 52.3▲ +0.8
TatchaCCI 49.7▼ −3.3
Rhode SkinCCI 94.2▲ +8.4
NaturiumCCI 87.1▲ +5.2
Tower 28CCI 81.7▲ +3.1
Glow RecipeCCI 76.3◆ 0.0
Rare BeautyCCI 71.8▼ −2.3
Drunk ElephantCCI 68.4▲ +1.7
e.l.f. BeautyCCI 62.0▼ −4.1
Summer FridaysCCI 59.3▲ +6.8
KosasCCI 57.1▲ +2.2
Fenty BeautyCCI 54.8▼ −1.0
Charlotte TilburyCCI 52.3▲ +0.8
TatchaCCI 49.7▼ −3.3
What is ERLAI
ERLAI — pronounced “Early”

THE SIGNAL
LAYER BEFORE
THE PURCHASE

Every purchase database tells you what already happened. ERLAI tells you what is about to happen.

By processing community signals from 29 sources including Reddit, Google Trends, through a patent-pending emotional resonance model, ERLAI generates a weekly Cultural Currency Index (CCI) score for every tracked brand.

The score captures momentum, not sentiment. A brand gaining cultural energy in community spaces consistently precedes its purchase spike by 2–4 weeks. That gap is the ERLAI advantage.

PATENT PENDING · PROVISIONAL FILED

Input Layer 01
Community Discourse

Reddit threads, comment velocity, upvote patterns and community engagement mapped against brand mentions across beauty subreddits.

Input Layer 02
Search Momentum

Google Trends velocity — not volume. Rising curve trajectories in brand and product search terms as leading indicators of demand formation.

Input Layer 03
Media Signal

News mention frequency, editorial tone, and earned media clustering patterns — weighted by source authority and recency.

Output
CCI Score + Momentum Alert

A weekly ranked score per brand plus threshold alerts when momentum crosses defined acceleration breakpoints.

Technical Architecture

THE ERLAI
PIPELINE

RAW
01
Multi-Source Ingestion

Reddit API, Google Trends, NewsAPI. Continuous ingestion normalized to weekly windows per brand.

NLP
02
Semantic Processing

Entity resolution, brand disambiguation, and contextual relevance filtering. Removes noise from raw mention counts.

VAD
03
Emotional Scoring

VAD model maps Valence, Arousal, and Dominance dimensions of community discourse. Captures emotional energy, not just volume.

CVI
04
Cultural Variance Index

Seasonal and category baselines prevent false signals. Distinguishes genuine momentum from algorithmic noise.

CCI
05
Score Output

Weekly CCI score, momentum vector, and threshold alert. Exportable as API feed or dashboard delivery.

Live Intelligence

THIS WEEK'S
CCI SCORES

ERLAI CCI™ · BEAUTY BRANDS · WK 10 2026 LIVE
01
Rhode Skin
Skincare
94.2 +8.4
02
Naturium
Skincare
87.1 +5.2
03
Tower 28
Makeup
81.7 +3.1
04
Glow Recipe
Skincare
76.3 0.0
05
Rare Beauty
Makeup
71.8 −2.3
06
Drunk Elephant
Skincare
68.4 +1.7
07
e.l.f. Beauty
Makeup
62.0 −4.1
0K+
Weekly Signals Processed
Across Reddit, Google Trends, and news sources every Monday scoring window.
2–4 wks
Average Lead Time
ERLAI momentum alerts precede confirmed purchase spikes by an average of 2–4 weeks across tracked brands.
0+
Brands Tracked
Prestige, indie, and mass beauty brands scored weekly. Coverage expanding monthly.
Intellectual Property

PATENT
PENDING

01
Cultural Variance Adjustment

Category-specific baseline calibration that prevents seasonal spikes from generating false momentum alerts. Each brand scored against its own historical distribution.

02
Community Trust Index

A secondary signal that weights source credibility and community authenticity, distinguishing organic momentum from artificially amplified brand noise.

03
Two-Timescale Model Update

Dual-horizon processing separates short-cycle trend spikes from longer-arc brand trajectory shifts. Prevents single-week events from distorting trend scores.

04
VAD Emotional Mapping

Valence, Arousal, Dominance dimensions applied to beauty community discourse. Maps emotional energy and intent quality, not just mention volume.

05
Graph Attention Network

Network analysis layer that identifies cross-brand momentum transfer — when a category surge elevates adjacent brands before direct mentions confirm it.

06
Provisional Patent Filed

All five components covered under provisional filing. Non-provisional in progress within the 12-month window. Defensible moat around the scoring methodology.

Deployment

WHERE ERLAI
RUNS TODAY

Live Deployment
FANTASY BEAUTY LEAGUE

ERLAI powers the live CCI scoring engine inside Fantasy Beauty League — a community platform where beauty curators draft brand lineups and predict cultural momentum. Every weekly score is generated by ERLAI in production.

Visit fantasybeautyleague.com →
Coming Soon
BRAND INTELLIGENCE API

A direct data feed of weekly CCI scores, momentum alerts, and trend forecasts for beauty retailers, brand teams, and investment analysts. Plug ERLAI's leading-indicator signal directly into your merchandising or personalization stack.

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THE SIGNAL
IS LIVE

Brand intelligence API, licensing, and strategic partnership inquiries welcome. Currently in active seed round.

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