Under Development
The structural science of human commitment.
Every promise has three parties: the one who makes it, the one who receives it, and the one who bears the consequences. The third party is almost never at the table. The third party always pays when the structure fails.
The PROMISE Foundation studies why promises hold or break — across construction, governance, treaties, marriages, and every other place humans make commitments to each other. The work is grounded in fifty years of construction and procurement of federal, state and local projects and fifteen years of running industrial production lines. The framework was named in February 2026. The evidence has been accumulating since 1975.
This site is being rebuilt. The framework, the book, and the analyzer will return here soon.