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Turning bottlenecks into breakthroughs

Fields get stuck at specific bottlenecks. We intervene there, then look for signals that the constraint is loosening and the field is moving.

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.

The levers

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

Portfolio map

How current interventions sit across fields.

Each row is an intervention type. The programs in that type are named underneath.

Orient
Coordinate
Resource

None in the current catalog.

Build
Prove
Enable

Spotlight: three live programmatic interventions

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.

15 interventions

Orient4

Economies & Governance

Orient

Public AI evaluation commons

Give public institutions credible evidence for AI adoption decisions.

18 monthsProposed

Economies & Governance

Orient

Evidence, evaluation & outcomes research program

Make credible evaluation more useful and affordable.

18 monthsProposed

Neurotech

Orient

Connectomics Benchmark + Prize Program

Make connectome reconstruction a measurable, competitive AI problem.

18 monthsProposed

Neurotech

Orient

NeuroAI Benchmark Commons

Give AI researchers well-defined neuroscience problems they can work on.

6–12 monthsProposed

Coordinate5

Economies & Governance

Coordinate

AI4PG research convenings & funder collaboration

Turn public-goods research conversations into sustained collaborations.

18 monthsProposed

Economies & Governance

Coordinate

AI4COP international collaboration program

Develop shared research and evaluated AI tools for environmental institutions.

18 monthsProposed

Economies & Governance

Coordinate

Sovereign compute & infrastructure alliance

Turn country requirements into usable compute access and technical capability.

18 monthsProposed

Economies & Governance

Coordinate

Economies & Governance Fellowship

Help a senior cross-institutional cohort advance shared missions.

18 monthsProposed

Neurotech

Coordinate

Mouse Connectome Acceleration Program

Make a large-scale connectome program technically and financially credible.

6–12 month preparationProposed

Build3

Economies & Governance

Build

Sovereign AI acceleration program

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

24 monthsProposed

Neurotech

Build

Macaque Ground-Truth Projectome

Create a primate reference dataset that tests long-range tracing.

18–24 monthsProposed

Neurotech

Build

Virtual-Neuro FRO / Consortium

Build shared simulation infrastructure after a discovery target is proven.

Launch decision in 6–12 months; 3–5 year programProposed

Prove1

Neurotech

Prove

“AlphaFold for Systems Neuroscience” Challenge

Test whether neural simulation can predict a new biological result.

9–18 monthsProposed

Enable2

Economies & Governance

Enable

Broad Listening & Simocracy deployment program

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

18 monthsProposed

Neurotech

Enable

NeuroAI Fellows Program

Supply persistent operational ownership and an AI-native talent pipeline.

Immediate start proposedProposed

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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