Become a Crusonian.
A Crusonian is anyone who starts with human health as the objective and treats food, finance, technology, policy, and data as the means. There are more of us than you'd think, and fewer than there need to be.
The transition needs all of you.
Investors
You can see the thesis but can't make the NPV work yet, because the instruments don't exist. So you build them.
Founders
Proving outcomes ahead of reimbursement, running the ventures that generate the data the system needs to move.
Operators
Linking soil health to human health, building the measurement layer that lets the field finally capture its value.
Policy builders
Designing the contracts and reimbursement pathways that make the economics work at scale.
Different builders, same objective: health as the product, food as the mechanism, returns as the proof.
Start free. Go as deep as you're built for.
Join the Crusonians and you're on the network: the weekly thesis, the essays, the signal. The deeper rooms, the Foundry's working floor and the capital layer, are curated, and the door is the work itself. Show us what you're building.
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The Network Is the Fund
The fund is not just a pool of capital. It is the network that sees the transition early, proves what works, and allocates against the new architecture.
Read the essay The MovementThe Three Derivatives of Innovation
Innovation does not move as a single event. It moves through proof on real people, propagation across a network, and financial instruments that capture the transition.
Read the essay AI & DataLive Demo: Building Your Family Health Dashboard with Claude - Weekly Livestream w/Gene Vestel FHIR Data Guy
We’re going live (here) Tuesday, March 17th at 11:30am ET. I bumped into the on Substack after reading his version of a very similar thought experiment with Claude for healthcare last month.
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