The Lab looks for foreseeable harm to public goods — the kind visible in evidence that is already public but scattered, with no single place assembling it. Its observatories read that pattern across countries, climate, health and global affairs; the sharpening focus is the digital public sphere, shaped by a handful of large platforms and firms. Collection and first-pass synthesis are AI-assisted; nothing is published as a finding until it is checked against its sources. What it surfaces are leads for inquiry, not verdicts.
The prevention gap is the time between a credible warning and authorized, financed action. Conversion asks whether growth, geopolitical leverage and institutional inputs become jobs, services, resilience and trust.
The observatories test these ideas in different settings; all of it is an ongoing experiment, and the measures are early pilots. Earlier experiments stay public as archived snapshots.