thesis institute In formation

A public-benefit research institute · in formation

Open forecasts of public outcomes, scored against reality.

Thesis Institute builds calibrated, open forecasts of the statistics and policies that shape public life — every prediction published with its full chain of reasoning, and scored against the record when the official numbers arrive. The track record is the product.

In formation · building in the open

What we're building

A public observatory of forecasts on government data — each one reasoned in the open, carrying a calibrated interval, and graded against reality once it resolves. Built on open instruments — deterministic policy engines and synthetic populations — so anyone can see, run, and check the work.

Deterministic

What the rules do

Law and policy encoded as open, auditable code — computed exactly, in partnership with sister organizations.

Predictive

What will actually happen

Calibrated forecasts of the uncertain world, conditioned on the rules — and scored when reality lands.

Open all the way down

The whole stack is a public good — nothing about the forecasts, the data, or the models is hidden from the people they describe.

open source open data open weights open predictions