ORGANISATION / ABOUT
About
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.
Team
The people building Equilibria Network
Advisors
Expert guidance from across disciplines
Aaron Halpern
Intelligence Rising
Co-founder of Equilibria Network and Chair of the Board. Now Game Design and Research Lead at Intelligence Rising, with a PhD from University College London and a background spanning interdisciplinary research, systems design, and early-stage technical startups.
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David Hyland
Oxford University
Postdoctoral researcher at Oxford University under Michael Woolridge working on bounded rationality and incentive design in multi-agent systems
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David Norman
Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF)
David Norman was the Managing Director of the Cooperative AI Foundation (CAIF) between Nov 2023 and Feb 2026, and is currently a board member for London Initiative for Safe AI (LISA).
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Jobst Heitzig
Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
Senior Scientist and Working Group Leader at PIK, leading the Behavioural Game Theory and Interacting Agents group. Researches climate policy, complex networks, and tipping elements through the lens of game theory and nonlinear dynamics.
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Partner Organizations
Collaborating to advance collective intelligence
