The Center is open to full-time research roles, university affiliations, public-standard collaborations, sponsored research, selected applied-research engagements, and litigation research. The shared subject is how consequential decisions account for effects outside the participating parties’ objectives.
Frontier laboratories and technology organizations
Full-time research, fellowships, and sponsored programs
Potential work includes computational economics, multi-agent markets, AI evaluations, institutional design, decision infrastructure, and empirical tests of interventions that change agent conduct.
The research program spans formal theory, computational experiments, system-welfare measurement, organizational governance, law, and public policy. The preferred affiliation supports sustained publication and external collaboration.
Senior fellow or research-faculty affiliation
Independent research center partnership
Coauthored empirical work
Seminars, workshops, and limited teaching
Standards bodies and public institutions
Open records, measurement, and evaluation standards
The public-interest program develops inspectable decision records, evidence requirements, testable system-welfare measures, and experiments that identify when records need an empowered reader and a consequence.
Standards and profile development
Public evaluation programs
Legislative and regulatory research
Government and public-interest pilots
Companies, advisers, and institutional decision-makers
Applied measurement and implementation
Organizations can commission a new SAPM study, review an existing estimate, measure a consequential decision, or integrate system-welfare evidence into decision and agent software.
Decision-specific calibration
Independent evidence review
Enterprise and GDSS integration
Board, regulatory, and dispute analysis
Counsel and litigation-support organizations
Independent economic research for complex disputes
Counsel and expert teams can commission case screening, litigation-grade SAPM studies, reproducible economic models, and supporting research for disputes involving externalized harm.
Consulting-expert assignments
Environmental and public-health economics
Mass-tort and class-action research programs
Testimony only after separate readiness review
Working terms
Clear scope protects the research and the institution.
A collaboration should identify the work being commissioned, existing intellectual property, new work product, methodological control, publication decisions, confidentiality, conflicts, review rights, and permitted commercial use before substantive work begins.
Background work
Missing System Theory, SAPM, Decision Accounting, DRCS, Steadfastly, the domain registry, and the existing corpus are identified in a dated background-IP schedule.
New work
The agreement states who owns new research, software, data, and platform-specific implementations, along with any license granted to the collaborating organization.
Publication and disclosure
The author retains control of academic methods, conclusions, corrections, and submission. Relevant financial support, positions, and prepublication review rights are disclosed under the receiving journal's rules.
Current location and availability
Remote first, with flexibility for the right institution.
Erik Postnieks · Salt Lake City, Utah
Remote work is strongly preferred. Relocation or sustained on-site work in the Bay Area, Boston, New York, or Washington, DC can be considered when the research opportunity and family logistics justify it.
The strongest collaboration expands the evidence, preserves the integrity of the research, and creates a practical route from measurement to better decisions.