The Lab publishes its thinking before its results: what it is, what it intends to test, and the rules it will hold itself to when reporting. Each document carries its focus area, date, and status.
The author-provided blueprint for a proposed economic layer connecting people with essential goods and services from local businesses. Original text preserved, with a watermark and email credit. A discussion proposal, not peer-reviewed or independently validated.
What Altruism Lab is, what stage it is at, how the work is organized, and the terms on which institutions, funders, and researchers can engage. The orientation document for anyone evaluating the Lab.
The August 2026 agenda for the animal-welfare intervention pathways and shared measurement foundation. The separate Middle Economy working paper introduces the subsequent poverty research proposal.
The supply-side intervention hypothesis: whether voluntary asset-retirement and managed-transition mechanisms can permanently retire factory-farm capacity. Proposed mechanism, uncertainties, and next bounded steps.
The demand-side program: shifting institutional food procurement rather than persuading individual consumers. Defines the long-term target, the pilot design under development, and how results would be verified.
The rules the Lab holds itself to before claiming impact: the evidence tiers, the public status vocabulary, the structure of the Impact Ledger, and what the Lab will and will not publish at each stage.
How to read these documents
Every status on this site — in development, active, target, published — and every evidence tier the Lab will report against is defined once, publicly, in the measurement framework. If a claim ever seems to outrun its label, that document is the standard to hold the Lab to.
Measurement & Impact Ledger Framework (PDF)Working on something adjacent?
Researchers, critics, and practitioners are welcome to engage with any of this — especially to disagree with it. Serious critique of a published brief is treated as a contribution, not an attack.
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