Frameworks and initiatives we've published, free to download.
The United States has AI standards, accredited auditors, and management-system certificates. It does not have conformance testing of deployed AI systems. This paper specifies the missing layer: what gets certified and for how long, who pays, why published test methods keep vendor-paid testing honest, and why state procurement is the one demand lever federal preemption cannot reach.
A strategic model that embeds entrepreneurial ventures inside research laboratories and connects them with capital and industry at the same time. The 2026 edition reports the program evidence deduplicated, traces Fervo Energy from fellowship to power purchase agreement, answers whether the sponsoring fund may invest in participants, and prices a twenty-node federated national network.
Six commercial metrics joined to Technology Readiness Levels, made reproducible: defined weights that sum to one, a stated aggregation rule, and six technologies scored under four investor weight vectors. The framework's honest use is routing ventures to the class of capital that can hold them, not screening deals.
