Interdisciplinary Systems R&D
A creative lab for a fairer, more resilient future.
ISRD brings research, simulations and writing tools together so more people can understand the connected challenges we share and help shape what comes next.
Our aim is a civilization where everybody has a voice in how Earth's resources are managed and where we go next. AI can help many producers, and the people who need it most, be heard, so the picture stays pluralistic: many perspectives, understood together.
Mission
Everyone gets a voice
AI can give everybody a voice: a say in how Earth's resources are managed and where our civilization goes next.
ISRD aims to help many producers, especially people who need AI support to be heard, and to keep the picture pluralistic: many perspectives, understood together.
Divisions
One lab, many fields
Each division works in its own field and shares the same interdisciplinary approach. ISRD Writing Studio and ISRD Press are our pre-publication tools: they take a manuscript from first idea to a reader-tested draft, ready for publication anywhere.
ISRD Writing Studio
A pre-publication writing studio built on the Reader-First method. It takes a manuscript from first idea to a developed, reader-tested draft, for fiction, nonfiction and instructional work.
Open the app → BetaISRD Writing Workspace
One workspace for a whole project: tasks on the left, a rendered page in the middle, the assistant on the right, with built-in help and a learning game. It uses the same sign-in as the Writing Studio.
Open the workspace →ISRD Press
The pre-publication home for each author's work: a sharing page, beta and advance readers, and an ePub reader, so a manuscript meets real readers on its way to wider publishing.
ISRD Simulations
Eight interactive models you can run and change, from flocking and feedback loops to how an illness spreads through a community. Growing toward games you play.
Run the models → LiveISRD Lab
Research programs, reports, articles and courses on health, writing, futures and learning.
Read the research →ISRD Technology
Digital products and AI-assisted tools designed around human judgment.
ISRD Health
Interdisciplinary research on chronic and post-viral illness, with clinicians, patients and researchers.
Think tanks
A geopolitical group, and a cultural literacy group that maps the world's belief systems and asks which of them serve the societies that hold them well, and by what criteria.
Approach
How we work
The same few ideas run through everything ISRD makes.
- See the whole pictureMap the connections, feedback loops and edges of a problem before changing any part of it.
- Design for the person on the other endThe reader, learner, patient or citizen is the other half of the system and the design target.
- Test itModels you can run, drafts you can check, and results treated as data when they surprise us.
- Keep people in chargeAI proposes and people decide. Tools scaffold judgment at every consequential step.