THE FUTURE IS ABOUT POWER. REIMAGINING WHO HAS IT. REDESIGNING HOW IT’S USED. REINVENTING WHAT IT’S FOR.
THE FUTURE IS ABOUT POWER. REIMAGINING WHO HAS IT. REDESIGNING HOW IT’S USED. REINVENTING WHAT IT’S FOR.
legal analysis. policy design. STRATEGIC organizing. to resist AND dismantle concentrated corporate power.
Our mission is to radically redesign the legal architecture governing what a corporation is —and assign new purpose to its power.
It’s not a matter of good versus bad or rich versus poor; it’s about incentives gone mad.
And it’s about how impossible it can seem to dream up — and more impossible still to build — alternatives to the status quo when so much is invested in the status quo remaining… well, static.
It’s hard to right the ship when we don’t own it and can’t steer it. But if we did and we could, we’d then be able to do all sorts of other brave and wonderful things.
The accumulation of unchecked corporate power is the central issue of our time.
It’s the key to climate change and the energy transition. To defending, preserving, and improving democratic institutions. To reversing deep and growing inequality. It’s the key to affordability, housing, and healthcare.
We cannot transcend these challenges — not sustainably, not completely, not justly — without first rewiring the power corporations exert over markets, politics, governance, and culture.
Don’t believe us? Consider this:
Preserving the planet, enabling truly representative democracy, distributing resources so that everyone has enough — these are dangerous ideas if your power depends on exploitation, wielding disproportionate influence, and directing resources toward an exclusive subset of individuals. You’ll likely do all you can — and with such concentrated power, you can do a lot — to ensure these conditions remain.
Not waging this fight makes it nearly impossible to effectively wage any other.
It’s not a matter of good versus bad or rich versus poor; it’s about incentives gone mad.
And it’s about how impossible it can seem to dream up — and more impossible still to build — alternatives to the status quo when so much is invested in the status quo remaining… well, static.
It’s hard to right the ship when we don’t own it and can’t steer it. But if we did and we could, we’d then be able to do all sorts of other brave and wonderful things.
“The solution is about more than redistribution. It’s about more than interrupting monopoly, securing accountability, or mandating transparency. That’s necessary, but it’s not enough.
We’re here to ask the question: What is political and economic power for?”
— REYNOLDS TAYLOR, FOUNDER & EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
OUR INITIATIVES IN 2026.
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CONTACT US.
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