Experiment 01 — People
A nine-month experiment aligning intelligence and consciousness.
Beginning December 21, 2026
The Alinea Fellowship brings together people working across consciousness, artificial intelligence, science, philosophy, economics, technology, art, design, and entrepreneurship.
It begins from a simple premise:
We cannot build genuinely new systems from the same unconscious assumptions, incentives, and patterns that created the old ones.
The Fellowship begins with internal and collective alignment, then moves into interdisciplinary ideation, team formation, and tangible creation.
Its intended outcomes include AI companies, tools, prototypes, economic systems, coordination mechanisms, funding models, cultural technologies, and new ways of founding and organizing companies.
Three phases
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Phase I — Align
Months 1–3
The first phase focuses on internal, relational, and collective alignment.
Fellows examine the consciousness, motivations, values, assumptions, fears, incentives, and patterns from which they create.
The goal is not ideological agreement. The goal is greater awareness, coherence, trust, and clarity before building.
This phase may include
- contemplative practice
- somatic practice
- consciousness research
- philosophical inquiry
- human development
- group process
- relational practice
- systems thinking
- economic and technological inquiry
- exploration of shared principles
Questions held in this phase
- What are we actually trying to create?
- What are we optimizing for?
- Which inherited assumptions shape our work?
- How do fear, scarcity, ego, power, and status influence what we build?
- Which forms of intelligence and value are currently excluded?
- What qualities should be embedded in the systems we create?
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Phase II — Seed
Months 4–6
The second phase turns inquiry into new possibilities.
Fellows identify meaningful problems, emerging opportunities, and underexplored design spaces across AI, consciousness, economics, culture, coordination, governance, and human development.
By the end of this phase, fellows should begin forming teams around the ideas they are committed to building.
Ideas may be developed through
- interdisciplinary research
- collaborative inquiry
- salons
- facilitated ideation
- prototypes
- experiments
- fieldwork
- conversations with practitioners
- economic and systems design
Potential areas
- aligned AI applications
- human–AI collaboration
- tools for consciousness and human development
- collective-intelligence systems
- new ownership and incentive models
- agentic economies
- coordination mechanisms
- governance tools
- new approaches to work and organizations
- funding mechanisms
- cultural and experiential technologies
- public-benefit systems
- infrastructure for new communities and networks
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Phase III — Build
Months 7–9
The final phase is dedicated to tangible creation.
Fellows develop companies, technologies, economic models, governance tools, cultural systems, protocols, prototypes, or other real-world ventures.
The goal is not for every fellow to produce the same type of outcome. Some may create venture-backed AI companies. Others may develop protocols, cultural technologies, research initiatives, economic systems, public-benefit ventures, funding mechanisms, or new organizational forms. What matters is that the work becomes tangible.
This phase may include
- product development
- technical prototyping
- company formation
- team formation
- user research
- business-model design
- economic and incentive design
- governance design
- legal and organizational structures
- storytelling and positioning
- fundraising strategy
- new funding structures
- capital formation
- partnerships
- ecosystem development
Who the Fellowship is for
Alinea is especially interested in people working between established disciplines—those who combine depth of practice with the ability to imagine, collaborate, and build beyond the assumptions of their own field.
Formal credentials are not a requirement. Practitioners, self-taught builders, artists, and keepers of living traditions are as relevant here as researchers and founders.
A Constellation of Fields
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Consciousness & Mind
- consciousness researchers
- cognitive scientists
- neuroscientists
- philosophers of mind
- phenomenologists
- contemplative scientists
- psychedelic researchers
- 02
Artificial Intelligence & Computation
- AI researchers
- machine-learning engineers
- AI founders
- computer scientists
- HCI researchers
- creative technologists
- 03
Creation & Venture Building
- founders
- venture builders
- product and protocol designers
- organizational designers
- community builders
- 04
Life, Evolution & Human Development
- evolutionary biologists
- complex-systems researchers
- developmental psychologists
- futures researchers
- lineage holders
- wisdom keepers
- 05
Economics, Capital & Coordination
- economists
- mechanism designers
- governance designers
- investors
- capital allocators
- legal and regulatory thinkers
- 06
Art, Culture & Experience
- experiential designers
- interactive artists
- architects
- anthropologists
- mythologists
- filmmakers
Outcomes
Fellows may leave with:
- 01greater internal clarity and alignment
- 02trusted interdisciplinary relationships
- 03a developed thesis
- 04collaborators or a founding team
- 05a prototype or body of work
- 06an AI company or venture concept
- 07an economic or governance model
- 08a new funding mechanism
- 09a strategy for structuring, funding, and launching the work
The Founding Circle
Alinea begins with a small, invite-only circle.
Alinea begins with a small, invite-only circle of people participating in its earliest experiments, gatherings, research, creation, and development.
Members may contribute through the Fellowship, Alinea Temple, research, art, company creation, hosting, collaboration, funding, or other forms of participation.