Global Wellbeing Is at 31% and Falling.
LEWs Score: 326 / 1,050. Trend ↓ Explore the data
Join us in reversing this trend through EFRI-Net — accelerating research-driven innovation for the largest economic, social, and political transformation in human history.
Get Started8.2 Billion People Are in Harm’s Way.
Life expectancy is stalling or declining in many nations. Depression and anxiety are rising, especially among the young. Inequality is widening. Climate breakdown is accelerating. Armed conflicts are spreading. Misinformation and disinformation are ranked among the top global risks. Cybercrime is corrupting every aspect of human life, costing an estimated US$10.5 trillion annually — roughly 10% of global GDP. Trust in institutions is eroding.
And artificial intelligence — the most powerful technology ever created — while being used for extraordinary good by some, is being deployed by many others to surveil, control, and concentrate wealth.
If these trends are not reversed rapidly — within the next decade — catastrophic and compounding problems in climate, public health, economic instability, and political breakdown could lead to avoidable harm or mortality for billions of people. The stakes are existential, and the window for action is closing.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres — 2026 New Year’s Message:
“We are edging towards the unthinkable — a broad collapse in the multilateral system. The institutions we built after the devastation of two world wars risk losing their relevance and authority.”
Top 10 Global Risks
World Economic Forum, 2026
Source: WEF Global Risks Report 2026
The Global Order Is Breaking Down.
“We are edging towards the unthinkable — a broad collapse in the multilateral system.”
— UN Secretary-General António Guterres, 2025
“The rules-based international order is fracturing at an alarming rate.”
— Munich Security Report, 2026
“We are entering an era of geopolitical recession — and no one is in charge.”
— Ian Bremmer, Eurasia Group, 2025
“Global freedom declined for the 18th consecutive year in 2023.”
— Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2024
Freedom Is Declining Worldwide.
Global Freedom Index
Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2025 (data for 2024)
57.2/100
↓ 3.9 pts since 2012
20 Consecutive Years of Decline — Global Average Freedom Score
One Measure That Captures It All.
Explore where the problems are.
LEWs Explorer
Goal: reach 75% of 1050 upper bound by 2050. Gap to target: 462 LEWs per person.
New GDP
$553T
Economic activity
New Capital
$553T
Wealth created
Two sides of one coin: new economic activity creates new wealth at ~1× revenue multiple.
$69,178 per person — 2.5% of adjusted total (8B people)
We believe the people of the world deserve better — and we believe better is possible.
We Have a Solution.
The AI-Powered Wellbeing Society Plan.
For the first time, a comprehensive plan for using AI to reverse these trends has been developed — at global scale, at speed, and with a viable economic model that creates extraordinary opportunity for those who participate in building it.
The plan’s goal is to move global wellbeing from 31% to 62% by 2050 — a gap that represents over US$500 trillion equivalent in new GDP and new capital, the single largest economic opportunity on the planet over the next 25 years. Recent breakthroughs have made this feasible for the first time, including a universal wellbeing measure (LEWs), a new economic methodology (Wellbeing Futures Investing), and AI that can operationalize wellbeing management at 50 to 1,000 times the speed of traditional approaches.
The plan proposes three new global institutions: a competitive network of AI-powered wellbeing management platforms (GoldBird), a constitutional democracy (AI-GCD), and a global research and innovation network. That network is EFRI-Net — and this is its home.
Why This Is Urgent
The forces working against human freedom — whether through extractive economics, captured governance, algorithmic manipulation, or concentrated technological power — are identifiable not by ideology but by effect: wherever the freedom of many is constrained to benefit the few, these forces are at work. AI is making them exponentially more dangerous. Extraction is happening at unprecedented speed, governance is being captured through AI-powered disinformation, and technological advantage is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands.
And the race for the next economy’s infrastructure is already underway. The standards, patents, and platforms that will define the century are being built right now — and the forces constraining freedom are not waiting. If they control the standards, the IP, and the platforms, they will control the century. The open standards, the wellbeing-optimizing innovations, the public-good research — these do not build themselves.
What EFRI-Net Does About It
EFRI-Net — the Extremely Fast Research-Driven Innovation Network — connects universities, researchers, entrepreneurs, accelerators, investors, and standards bodies in a continuous cycle of compositional action research: researchers advancing the science on one side, practitioners building and testing on the other, both moving at AI-driven speed — 10 to 1,000 times faster than traditional approaches.
Research becomes reality at EFRI speed
Wellbeing science becomes ventures, products, and services — not in years, but in weeks. University research connected to private-sector innovation through compositional action research.
Open standards get built before others lock them down
OSPREY and platform interoperability standards — open, transparent, ethics-first — ensuring no single entity monopolizes the infrastructure of the wellbeing economy.
EFRI-Net Hubs form in every jurisdiction
Universities, entrepreneurs, accelerators, and investors connected at every level from global to local. One Hub per jurisdiction — the same fractal structure as GoldBird Centers and AI-GCD Offices.
Innovation funds more innovation
A percentage of every economic transaction in the wellbeing economy flows back to fund the public-good research that makes it possible — a self-reinforcing cycle.
Trillions in new value — designed for wellbeing
Products, services, businesses, and institutions purpose-built to optimize human wellbeing — public good and private good, aligned by design, at a scale the world has never seen.
We are inviting every leading university, research center, innovation accelerator, venture fund, standards body, and entrepreneurial mind — in every community, every state, every nation — to join us in building this. If you do research that matters, build things that work, fund ideas that scale, or set standards that endure — there is a place for you in EFRI-Net, and the people who move first will shape what follows.
Join EFRI-Net Today.
Time is of the essence.
EFRI-Net is built by its members and partners — universities, researchers, entrepreneurs, accelerators, investors, government agencies, and standards bodies working together at EFRI speed.
How It Works
Read and Sign the Declaration
The Declaration of Wellbeing Independence is your gateway to all three networks — GoldBird, AI-GCD, and EFRI-Net. One signature, three networks.
Explore the Opportunity Map
Select an EFRI-Net Hub — by community, state, nation, or industry. See what’s being built and where. Describe how you can contribute and add value. Many more invite-only opportunities are available inside the EFRI-Net space.
Apply to Join
Participation is by invitation during the founding phase. Most early opportunities involve becoming a founding member or partner of a Hub in your jurisdiction or domain — bring your institution, your team, or your network. If accepted, your first 30 days are free to make sure EFRI-Net is the right fit for you and your organization.
Complete Training and Orientation
Access EFRI-Net training programs, academic working papers (JEFRI), open standards documentation, and the technology platform. Learn the methodology. Meet your Hub.
Start Innovating
Join compositional action research teams. Build products and services at EFRI speed. Develop open standards. Fund and mentor ventures. Your work starts generating value from day one.
Benefits by Partner Type
Universities & Research Centers
- •Anchor an EFRI-Net Hub on your campus
- •Connect research programs to the global innovation pipeline
- •Access funding through the Wellbeing Research set-aside
- •Co-develop open standards (OSPREY, interoperability)
- •Publish through JEFRI — Journals for Extremely Fast Research-Driven Innovation
Researchers & Academics
- •Join compositional action research teams at EFRI speed
- •Your research becomes reality — not in decades, but in weeks
- •Contribute to wellbeing science, economics, governance, or measurement
- •Access AI-powered research tools and cross-Hub knowledge synthesis
- •GoldSage as your lifelong AI research partner
Entrepreneurs & Startups
- •Build wellbeing-optimizing products and services at 10–1,000x speed
- •Access accelerator programs through your local Hub
- •Leverage open standards — no vendor lock-in
- •Connect to venture funding and university research
- •Own what you create
Accelerators & Incubators
- •Access the richest pipeline of wellbeing innovation on the planet
- •Connect startups to university research and open standards
- •Affiliate with a global network of Hubs
- •Co-develop accelerator curricula for the wellbeing economy
Venture Capital & Investors
- •Early-stage deal flow in a US$500 trillion emerging market
- •Wellbeing Futures Investing — impact and return, aligned by design
- •LEW-Backed Securities — potentially up to US$250,000 per participant
- •Portfolio companies connected to global research and standards
Government & Economic Development
- •Launch an EFRI-Net Hub in your jurisdiction
- •Connect local innovators, universities, and entrepreneurs to the global network
- •Drive economic development — new jobs, ventures, and tax base
- •LEWs-based policy scoring for innovation investments
Standards Bodies & Policy Organizations
- •Shape OSPREY and platform interoperability standards
- •Build the open infrastructure of the wellbeing economy
- •Participate before others write the rules for you
- •Ethics-first standards development methodology
Individual Innovators
- •Founding member designation — permanent record
- •Join a Hub in your jurisdiction or help start one
- •Access to accelerator programs and venture pathways
- •GoldSage as your AI partner for innovation at EFRI speed
The people who show up first will lead what follows.
Hundreds of Trillions of Dollars in New Opportunities.
Three institutions — each working across all four powers, each with a different emphasis — open what we believe to be the largest set of economic, civic, and innovation opportunities in human history. GoldBird emphasizes wellbeing management, the AI-GCD is a new global democratic government, and EFRI-Net emphasizes research-driven innovation — but all three operate across economic, political, community, and innovation domains.
Through GoldBird
Through the AI-GCD
Through EFRI-Net
Be first — in any of these areas. First-mover advantage in your jurisdiction, your industry, your domain. The opportunities are real, specific, and time-limited.
From Research to Reality.
Phase 1: Founding
First Hubs forming. Standards development beginning. Research agenda established. Accelerator partnerships launching. The two-sides model demonstrated: university research connected to private-sector innovation through compositional action research.
Phase 2: Network Effect
Hubs in a majority of jurisdictions. Open standards adopted across platforms. Research-to-venture pipeline operational. Cross-Hub knowledge synthesis producing breakthroughs at EFRI speed.
Phase 3: The Intelligent Planet
A global research and innovation network operating at EFRI speed — every jurisdiction connected, every breakthrough shared, every venture assessed by its impact on human wellbeing.
This is not a thought experiment. The research is underway. The Hubs are forming. The standards are being written. The founding window is open.
Get Started.
Be one of the founding participants who will build the research and innovation network the world needs — from your lab, your startup, your campus, your jurisdiction. This moment will not repeat.
Launching with the Vanguard™ — the founding class of signers and innovators building the Extremely Fast Research-Driven Innovation Network.
