Cosmos
An ad-free inspiration platform that searches by colour and visual similarity, researches each image back to its artist, and flags likely AI content
Cosmos is a visual inspiration platform built for designers, photographers, architects and artists. You save images, links, videos, articles and text into collections, and the platform is deliberately quiet: no ads, no likes and no engagement metrics. Three things separate it from a pinboard. Search runs by colour, given as a hex value, and by visual similarity, so you can look the way you actually think about an image. Cosmos researches the images it holds and surfaces the artist, the source and the story rather than leaving a picture unattributed. And it detects content likely generated by AI, with a control to show, blur or hide it, which no other gallery in this corpus offers. The company was founded by Andy McCune, sits in New York City, and has raised more than 21 million dollars from Google Ventures, Accel, Shine Capital and Matrix, along with Anthony Casalena of Squarespace. Its stated idea is curation as creation: collecting and organising as a creative practice in itself. Note that this corpus already holds one artist's page on this platform, cosmos-aarzooaly-work. This record is the platform.
Search by colour or by similarity, not by keyword. The platform takes a hex value and it matches on visual likeness, which is the reason to use it over a keyword gallery. Use the attribution. Cosmos researches an image and surfaces the artist, the source and the story, so a reference pulled from here can be credited, which matters for client work. Set the AI filter before you gather references. The platform detects likely AI-generated content and lets you show, blur or hide it. For a brief that needs human work, hide it first. Expect a login. Saving needs an account and the deep content is behind it, so an agent cannot walk the collections.
Why it is here. Every other inspiration platform hands you an unattributed image and leaves you to guess whether a model made it. Cosmos answers both questions on the page.
- search by colour and by visual similarity
- researches an image to its artist and source
- shows, blurs or hides likely AI content
- no ads, no likes, no engagement metrics
- raised more than 21 million dollars
Verified 2026-08-30. HTTP 200. https://www.cosmos.so/ 200, 332 KB; the page reads "Your space for inspiration", "Your collections, your references, your taste. Connected, searchable, yours", "Search the way you think" beside the colour value #bc361b with the controls "By color" and "by visual similarity", "AI content — Content detected as likely generated by AI" with Show, Blur and Hide, and "Cosmos researches images—surfacing the artist, source, and story"; sample attributions name Karl Blossfeldt's Unformen der Kunst and OOAA Arquitectura designed by Iker Ochotorena; the navigation holds Explore, Sequence, Shop, Careers, Log in and Sign up, plus a mobile app. https://www.cosmos.so/llms.txt 200 and it states "a visual inspiration platform for creatives — a Pinterest alternative built for designers, photographers, architects, artists, and creative teams ... in a distraction-free, ad-free environment. Cosmos uses AI to research images and surface the original artist, source, and story", plus "Cosmos was founded by Andy McCune and is headquartered in New York City. The company has 21M+ in total funding from investors like Google Ventures, Accel, Shine Capital, Matrix and notable investors like Anthony Casalena, founder and CEO of Squarespace" and "built around the concept of 'curation as creation' ... no ads, no likes, and no engagement metrics". /sitemap.xml 200.
