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Judgment OS / Decision Intelligence OS

Core MARIA OS research on turning organizational judgment into executable decision systems.

Agentic Company Architecture

Research on human-agent organizations, delegation boundaries, role topology, and governed autonomy.

Responsibility Gates and AI Governance

Safety, accountability, fail-closed gates, auditability, and human-in-the-loop control for AI agents.

Multi-Agent Mathematics

Formal models for convergence, stability, game theory, graph dynamics, and multi-agent evaluation.

Evidence, RAG, and Knowledge Governance

Evidence bundles, retrieval architecture, Graph RAG, knowledge trust, and auditable reasoning pipelines.

Agentic R&D and Judgment Science

Research operations, simulation labs, judgment science, recursive improvement, and experimental AI governance.

TheoryMarch 8, 202642 min read

Repeated Games and the Cofounder Problem: Why Startup Cooperation Depends on Shared Time Horizons

Discount factors, reciprocity, and overlapping household constraints explain why capable founders still fail to sustain cooperation

A startup is not a one-shot negotiation. It is a repeated game played through hiring, product crises, financing pressure, and daily trust updates. This paper applies repeated-game theory to cofounder relationships and shows why long-term cooperation depends less on abstract loyalty than on shared time horizons, sufficiently high discount factors, and freedom from external games that dominate short-term decisions.

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