Problem 01 Thesis 02 Engine 03 Domains 04 Record 05 Project 1377 06
Run a decision

NYC, NY

Machine
Foresight*

See what could happen before you decide.

State T₀ Futures T₁ → Tₙ

A continuously trained world model that turns live signals into calibrated forecasts — so institutions can test consequential moves before they commit.

01 — The problem

Models learned to answer
before they learned
to anticipate.

Language models predict what comes next in text. Consequential decisions depend on what comes next in the world.

A decision needs more than a good answer: possible outcomes, calibrated odds, and a view that changes when the evidence changes. Nothing in a model’s default form maintains that.

The next token is not the next state.

    02 — Our thesis

    For a consequential decision,
    the answer is not the output.
    The calibrated future is.

    The next frontier is not a more articulate model. It is a system that holds a belief about what happens next, keeps it current as evidence arrives, and is scored when reality decides.

    A foresight system should be able to show
      03 — The Ulmo Engine

      Know the state. Run it forward.
      Learn from reality.

      Latent inside. Explicit outside.

      04 — Domains

      Built for decisions that become
      expensive after you commit.

      05 — The Ulmo Record

      Made before
      the answer was known.

      A foresight report is usually written by the party it benefits. Nobody goes back to check, so it can never be wrong.

      Ulmo commits instead. A forecast is fixed with its date, what the Engine could see, and the rule that will decide it — cryptographically committed before the outcome is known, so nothing can be rewritten afterwards.

      Integrity by commitment. Accuracy by resolution.

      What a committed forecast carries
      06 — Project 1377

      Build the systems
      that learn from time.

      A fellowship for people who build systems that make measurable claims about what happens next.

      Do not write about the future.
      Build systems that survive it.

      Apply to Project 1377

      Bring us a decision
      you have not made yet.