I.
Principles
We help you define the first principles you stand for, build a strategic plan to put them into practice, and find a permanent team when the time is right.
Work
Strategy for navigating policy change at the edge of what's new.
We start from first principles, go deep on the substance and stay with you until the work is done.
II.
Counsel
We dive deep into the weeds on tough policy questions and come back with a clear synthesis, so you can focus on what matters most. Then we advocate for your position with the stakeholders who count.
III.
Campaigns
Winning campaigns bring diverse stakeholders together under a shared cause. We've run some of the most memorable policy campaigns in tech, and we can help you craft, organize and run the next one.
IV.
Message
Change starts with communicating your purpose, repeatedly and consistently, to consumers, policymakers and journalists alike.
Case studies
Frontier AI
A frontier AI lab scales its policy function
We worked alongside the company's policy development leader to grow the function and support policy teams around the world through accelerating policy change.
- Structure and hiring: advising on team design and the hiring plan as the function grew.
- Arms and legs: substantive research and strategy to get the work done in the early months.
- Ongoing counsel: strategic input and advice as the team matured.
Open ecosystem
Organizing the open ecosystem to develop a voice in state policy battles
We brought together researchers, non-profits and companies from across the open ecosystem to give them a shared voice in state policy.
- Convening: bringing diverse stakeholders together around common policy challenges.
- Shared principles: identifying areas of shared interest and agreed-upon principles.
- Policy change: channeling that collective voice into real change in statehouses.
Non-profits
An engineering consortium navigates complex policy intersections
An engineering consortium needed to navigate where its technical work meets fast-moving policy debates.
- Strategic policy advice: counsel on the policy questions shaping the consortium's work.
- External engagement: facilitating civil society workshops and engaging member organizations.
- Hands-on support: across go-to-market functions as the organization prepared to scale.
Who we work with
Companies building frontier technology, and the institutions shaping its public interest. We work with:
AI and technology
Frontier AI labs, global technology companies and the startups challenging them.
Open ecosystems
Open-source foundations, developer platforms and engineering consortia.
Philanthropy
Foundations funding the public-interest side of technology.
Issues we work on
- AI and copyright
- AI and labor
- Openness and open source
- Privacy
- Content regulation and online safety
- Access to information
- Virtual worlds
- Autonomous vehicles and robotics
- AI safety
- Infrastructure
- Security