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Turning bottlenecks into breakthroughs

Fields don't stall in general. They stall on a specific constraint. These are the programs we run to loosen those — and the evidence we look at next.

How we choose the work

A repeatable method

Observe. Diagnose. Intervene. Repeat.

  1. Observe

    Read the field

    Track where a field is moving, stalling or changing.

  2. Diagnose

    Find the constraint

    Turn those signals into a view of what is actually blocking progress.

  3. Intervene

    Pull the right lever

    Choose the lever that loosens that constraint.

    • Orient
    • Coordinate
    • Resource
    • Build
    • Prove
    • Enable

Portfolio map

How current interventions sit across fields.

Columns are focus areas. Rows are intervention types. Hover or focus a mark to open the program.

Type
Economies & Governance
Neurotech
Orient
Coordinate
Resource
Build
Prove
Enable

Coming next in the map Digital Human Rights · AI & Robotics

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Three programs, in more detail.

Economies & Governance

Build

Sovereign AI acceleration program

Help national institutions turn open models into useful, locally maintained AI capability.

24 months

Economies & Governance

Enable

Broad Listening & Simocracy deployment program

Make participatory decision tools easier to adopt, evaluate, and maintain.

18 months

Neurotech

Orient

Connectomics Benchmark + Prize Program

Make connectome reconstruction a measurable, competitive AI problem.

18 months

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Draft-source examples. Not approved commitments.

8 interventions

Build

Build

Sovereign AI acceleration program

Help national institutions turn open models into useful, locally maintained AI capability.

24 monthsProposed

Orient

Orient

Public AI evaluation commons

Give public institutions credible evidence for AI adoption decisions.

18 monthsProposed

Enable

Enable

Broad Listening & Simocracy deployment program

Make participatory decision tools easier to adopt, evaluate, and maintain.

18 monthsProposed

Coordinate

Coordinate

AI4PG research convenings & funder collaboration

Turn public-goods research conversations into sustained collaborations.

18 monthsProposed

Coordinate

Coordinate

AI4COP international collaboration program

Develop shared research and evaluated AI tools for environmental institutions.

18 monthsProposed

Orient

Orient

Evidence, evaluation & outcomes research program

Make credible evaluation more useful and affordable.

18 monthsProposed

Coordinate

Coordinate

Sovereign compute & infrastructure alliance

Turn country requirements into usable compute access and technical capability.

18 monthsProposed

Coordinate

Coordinate

Economies & Governance Fellowship

Help a senior cross-institutional cohort advance shared missions.

18 monthsProposed

Public types here follow the FA2 draft vocabulary. See the methodology for how they relate to the Console toolkit.

From intervention to evidence

Running a program is only the beginning.

We track whether an intervention changes the underlying field — and update the hypothesis accordingly.

Explore how we measure field velocity
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