About
We're a collective intelligence research organization working on how groups coordinate and make better decisions.
About
We build new systems - voting mechanisms, organizational structures, coordination tools - while developing the theory to understand them. And we use the same principles in our own research process.
We're a collective intelligence research organization working on how groups coordinate and make better decisions.
We build new systems - voting mechanisms, organizational structures, coordination tools - while developing the theory to understand them. And we use the same principles in our own research process.
Philosophy & Culture
The principles and practices that shape how we work
We partner with existing organizations.
The theory develops from what we're seeing in practice.
We engage in interdisciplinary dialogue.
We've structured ourselves as both a focused research team and a broader network to make interdisciplinary collisions more likely, creating more surface area for useful accidents.
We assume someone already solved our problem, just in a different field.
We read across disciplines - game theory, cybernetics, information theory, organizational behavior - looking for patterns that repeat across contexts.
We test things on ourselves first.
When we discover something about how groups work better, we implement it in our own processes before suggesting it elsewhere. This has changed how we run meetings, make decisions, and share information.
We take play seriously.
Mammals evolved it as a learning mechanism. Time for exploration alongside execution, permission to pursue unexpected tangents, explicit switching between modes.
Make the implicit explicit.
We make things explicit that usually stay implicit - what good work means here, how we make decisions, what we do when we disagree. Building shared language as we go.
Our Team
We are a diverse group of researchers with backgrounds in complex systems, mathematics, computational biology, and AI safety.