The company that owns and develops the Coherence Engine — and licenses coherence measurement and alignment to organizations everywhere. Child of Humanity receives the engine royalty-free, forever. The rest of the world pays for it.
Organizations spend billions trying to answer one question: are we coherent? Are our people aligned with each other, with our purpose, with the system we live inside? Today they answer it with engagement surveys, culture consultants, and ESG checklists — lagging, self-reported, and gameable.
The Coherence Engine answers it differently: a scientific measurement grounded in the Free Energy Principle and Active Inference, reading coherence from real patterns of exchange, contribution, and relationship rather than from what people say in surveys. A company can measure team coherence. A farm network can measure ecological-economic coherence. A city district can measure civic coherence — and act on it.
Category comparables: engagement platforms reached $500M–1B+ revenue on survey data alone. Coherence Labs measures what they can only ask about.
| Segment | Implementation (one-time) | Subscription (annual) |
|---|---|---|
| Small organizations (<100 people) | $30k | $18k |
| Mid-size (100–1,000) | $80k | $60k |
| Enterprise, cities & networks (1,000+) | $200k | $150k |
Implementation is delivered with Threshold as preferred partner, keeping Coherence Labs a product company with software margins. Net revenue retention should exceed 110% as organizations expand from one team to whole systems.
Ship engine v1 with research partners. Sign 6 lighthouse pilots across three archetypes — two companies, one regenerative farm network, one city district — each a published case study. First revenue from implementation fees.
Convert pilots to annual subscriptions; publish the Coherence Index methodology openly to set the standard. Build a partner channel through consultancies and Threshold. 25 → 70 licensed organizations.
Open the API; coherence measurement embeds in HR platforms, ESG reporting, and municipal dashboards. 320 organizations, expansion revenue compounding.
| Y1 | Y2 | Y3 | Y4 | Y5 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Licensed organizations | 6 | 25 | 70 | 160 | 320 |
| Revenue | $0.4M | $1.8M | $5.6M | $13M | $27M |
| Operating costs | $2.0M | $3.4M | $6.2M | $11M | $18M |
| EBITDA | –$1.6M | –$1.6M | –$0.6M | +$2M | +$9M |
R&D-weighted by design: roughly half of spend is engine research and development (team of 8 growing to ~30 — active-inference researchers, engineers, and coherence practitioners), a third go-to-market, the rest operations. The research track toward next-generation architectures is budgeted and clearly labeled as research.
Funds 18–24 months: engine v1, six lighthouse pilots, and the published methodology that makes Coherence Labs the reference point for the category. This venture starts now — it is the critical path for the entire constellation.
Measurement validity. The core scientific risk. Mitigated by publishing methodology, peer-review partnerships, and pilots designed as falsifiable studies.
Coherence read as conformity. A design risk we treat as existential — the engine measures diversity-preserving coherence, and governance protections are built into the covenant.
Long enterprise sales cycles. Mitigated by lighthouse-first strategy and the Threshold channel.