Our vision and approach
Businesses people own.
Income that lasts.
We seek pathways out of poverty through productive, digitally enabled businesses that people can own and help shape.
Ownership, not just participation
New technology should expand who can build an economic future. We explore whether AI-assisted and agent-operated businesses can lower barriers to ownership, giving more people meaningful control over productive work and the income it creates.
One economy, shared constraints
People and the agents working for them need useful demand, productive resources and dependable ways to exchange value. Our research examines those shared constraints without assuming that every agent’s operator has ample capital—or that credit is always the answer.
A digital-first path to human income
Digital services, creator businesses and virtual economies offer starting points for exploring new forms of production and ownership. Agents may serve other agents, people or businesses; the enduring aim is sustainable income that improves people’s lives.
Our north star
Broader ownership.
Sustainable livelihoods.
Human opportunity.
This is the future we are working toward and a research direction to test, not a claim that the model has already succeeded.
How evidence shapes the path
We compare possible approaches, investigate real economic barriers and follow the benefits and costs through to people. Research can change the route without changing the purpose.
Explore the evidence and analytical findings →
Current research · November 2026
From vision to testable questions
One current question is whether an existing creator or digital-work business loses useful orders because costs arrive before customer payments. Another is whether a small agent-operated service could become a viable business that a person can own.
These are research candidates, not the mission itself. Their demand, costs, ownership arrangements and additional human income must be established. The research notes preserve the proposed tests and decision criteria.
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