InflectAI, Inc.InflectAI research institute
Domain-native research on threshold dynamics, the geometry of meaning, beliefs, and systems change.
Domain-native questions.
Evidence over elegance.
Future fellowships with domain experts.
Research Program
Radiant studies transitions that look sudden from the outside but were prepared by long, difficult-to-see changes in structure: pressure accumulating, resistance holding, residue building, and thresholds finally giving way.
The standard is empirical. The papers are worth developing only where the claims can be exposed to evidence, failure, and better explanations.
Working Papers
A testable narrative-theory framework asking whether stories move audiences through recurring structures of force, release, revelation, gathering, and held contradiction.
Lineage: Propp, Campbell, Booker, Vonnegut, Kishotenketsu, cognitive narratology, computational narrative analysis.
A testable account of English vowel movement as structural change shaped by lexical mass, print standardization, schooling, pulpit reading, and prestige networks.
Lineage: J. R. Firth, historical phonology, distributional semantics, print history.
A falsifiable threshold model for mitochondrial endosymbiosis, treating stable integration as a crossing preceded by failed encounters, genomic residue, and barrier reduction.
Lineage: Lynn Margulis, Martin and Muller, Gould and Eldredge, Asgard archaea research.
A falsifiable research program using Paulinella as a living model of organellogenesis, with organisms on both sides of the endosymbiotic threshold and observable gene-transfer dynamics.
Lineage: Paulinella research, plastid evolution, endosymbiotic gene transfer, Doolittle, Nowack.
A financial-history and systemic-risk research program asking whether instrument novelty, counterparty expansion, and professional withdrawal appear before threshold financial events.
Lineage: Hyman Minsky, Kindleberger, Reinhart and Rogoff, financial innovation literature, systemic-risk network research.
A financial NLP research program measuring divergence among filings, earnings calls, product claims, strategy language, and market attribution before ordinary indicators fully register distress.
Lineage: Hyman Minsky, financial disclosure research, organizational theory, optimal transport.
A computational Sinology and textual-transmission hypothesis treating The Art of War as a strategic core refined by a professional advisory community over multiple generations.
Lineage: Classical Chinese textual studies, Warring States history, authorship studies, computational stylometry.
Collaboration
Radiant working papers are hypotheses, research programs, and draft arguments. They are not presented as peer-reviewed findings unless and until they have gone through that process.
Selected papers may be developed with academic collaborators into empirical studies and peer-reviewed manuscripts. Authorship should reflect substantive contribution, not patronage.