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Insights.
Essays, working papers, and methodology notes from the firm. Everything here is written to be argued with.
Working papers
Formal research.
Methodology notes
How the instruments are built.
Method
Why a geometric mean: coupling the two sides of OWINeither machine capability nor labor-market structure alone makes work optional. The aggregation choice is the argument.
Measurement
Method
Measuring compute readiness as a systemCapacity, energy, capital, governance: why NACI refuses to be a chip-count league table.
Compute & Energy
From the firm
Analysis and essays.
Report
The Optional Work ReportThe monthly read on where machine work is replacing, augmenting, and creating human work — and what it means for policy.
Monthly
Essay
The AI transition happens one company at a timeNational statistics describe the transition after it happens. Inside the firm, it is a live decision — and it deserves an instrument. The case for OWI-C.
AI & Institutions
Perspective
The pilot era is over. The operating-model era has begun.Enterprises have run the pilots and written the strategy. What remains is the operating model itself — which work moves to machines, which stays human, and in what order.
Enterprise Transformation
Essay
The gap between advising, building, and publishingWhy Disnesta exists: the gap between firms that advise, firms that build, and institutes that publish — and what closing it requires.
Systems Governance
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