About the Institute
A research institute for the economics of artificial intelligence.
The Intelligence Economy Institute (IEI) exists to advance the economic, financial, and governance infrastructures required for the age of artificial intelligence — grounded in evidence, oriented toward practice, and free of hype.
Mission
Why we exist
The capability of AI systems is advancing faster than the economic and institutional infrastructure required to deploy them responsibly. Markets, settlement systems, accounting standards, and governance frameworks were all designed for human-paced, human-legible activity. The intelligence economy will strain every one of them.
IEI’s work is to specify what that missing infrastructure looks like — and to convene the institutions who will ultimately have to build, adopt, and regulate it. We publish research, reports, and field notes, and we bring practitioners together around shared, concrete problems.
What we do
Four areas, one through-line: legibility.
Economic Infrastructure
Markets, pricing, and settlement systems for autonomous and agentic economic activity.
Financial Systems
Capital formation, payments, and risk frameworks as AI reshapes intermediation.
Governance & Standards
Accountability, auditability, and the institutional rules that keep AI markets legible.
Tokenization & Settlement
Programmable assets and verifiable settlement — the connective tissue between AI systems and real-world value.
Who we convene
The table we set
- Finance institutionsBanks, asset managers, and market infrastructure providers.
- Regulators & policymakersThose who will write the rules for autonomous markets.
- ResearchersEconomists, mechanism designers, and AI systems researchers.
- TechnologistsThe engineers building agents, rails, and settlement systems.
- Civil societyVoices ensuring the intelligence economy stays accountable.
Get involved
Independent, evidence-led, and open to collaborators
We publish research, reports, and field notes, and we bring practitioners together around concrete problems. If your work touches the infrastructure of the intelligence economy, we want to hear from you.