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What We Do
Reconstitution, Inc. is a benefit corporation chartered to incubate information solutions which shine transparency into society’s most challenging problems.
We architect and build multi-dimensional graph databases, hypergraphs, which capture the multivariate complexity of the world. These powerful solutions enable advanced graph geometry analytics to reveal previously invisible patterns of influence on the function of our economy and government, and point the way to better public policy outcomes for communities and individuals.
To ensure the integrity of public data and transparent math within our patented Context Engine and Human Context Agent technology we have partnered with nonprofit Renews Context Services to form a new governance and economic model to protect the integrity of the Context Engine.
The first and most important element of this governance model is a new social contract: Every civilian has exclusive rights to own, control and monetize their identity and personal information.
This model eliminates the bias-inducing motivations of the ad and subscription revenue models by ensuring:
- The Context Agent product only serves its user’s best interests, and
- Reconstitution the company only serves its community of shared interest.
Our Context Agent architecture can be applied to reveal and manage multivariate complexity across industry sectors, government agencies, NGOs, and research applications.
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Our Approach
For example, Reconstitution applied research and analytics within our hypergrah model of society to identify critical areas of public policy disfunction. We specifically identified that today’s media ecosystem actively erodes the function of the craft of journalism in its role as the 4th estate of American democracy. Advanced hypergraph mathematics revealed both the causes of problem, as well as the levers offering progress toward solutions.
We broke down the modern news media industry and identified 38 dimensions which are dysfunctional in the context of the first principles of journalism.
Reconstitution brought to bear world class teams, human-centered design methods, prototyping, scenario analysis, and user research to craft solutions which extended far beyond the incremental.
Our solution is a new information and journalism ecosystem which includes Benefit Corporations and not-for-profit entities working symbiotically, funded by average citizens under Title III of the Jobs Act, and donors focused on restoring civilian agency in the American democratic republic.
Nonprofit journalism ecosystem ReNews Context Services has been granted a perpetual, royalty-free license to a civilian Context Agent app, ReNews.us, for the purpose of providing reporting and public data in each civilian’s individual context.
Reconstitution will make our hypergraph Context Engine and Human Context Agent solutions available to government, not-for-profit entities, and for-profit corporations.
Our Mission
When critical societal functions fail it becomes necessary to reconstitute them with solutions unconstrained by incremental thinking. In defining solutions and underlying technologies Reconstitution will keep one eye on social justice and the other focused on economic and environmental sustainability.
We will not engage in partisan debate, but will instead let our community of civilian investors and beneficiaries be the judge of the value of our solutions.
Robert A. Pelham Jr. (January 4, 1859 – June 12, 1943) was a journalist and civil servant in Detroit, Michigan and Washington, D.C. Along with his brother, Benjamin, and others, he was a founder and editor of the Detroit Plaindealer in 1883. He served in a number of public positions in Michigan.
The Selma to Montgomery marches were three protest marches, held in 1965, along the 54-mile (87 km) highway from Selma, Alabama, to the state capital of Montgomery. The marches were organized by nonviolent activists.
Robert McCormick Adams Jr. (July 23, 1926 – January 27, 2018)[1] was an American anthropologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1984–94). 2] He worked in both the Near East and Mesoamerica.
As editor of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists from 1961 to 1968 and from 1978 to 1983, Ms. Adams provided a forum for scientists to express their opposition to the deployment and use of nuclear weapons. After World War II, she worked at the University of Chicago.
Edward Roscoe Murrow (born Egbert Roscoe Murrow; April 25, 1908 – April 27, 1965)[1] was an American broadcast journalist and war correspondent. He first gained prominence during World War II with a series of live radio broadcasts from Europe for the news division of CBS.
William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (/djuːˈbɔɪs/ dew-BOYSS;[1][2] February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, socialist, historian, and Pan-Africanist civil rights activist. Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated.
Walter Leland Cronkite Jr. (November 4, 1916 – July 17, 2009) was an American broadcast journalist who served as anchorman for the CBS Evening News[1] for 19 years (1962–1981). During the 1960s and 1970s, he was often cited as "the most trusted man in America" after being so named in an opinion poll.
Ernest Taylor Pyle (August 3, 1900 – April 18, 1945) was a Pulitzer Prize–winning American journalist and war correspondent who is best known for his stories about ordinary American soldiers during World War II. Pyle is also notable for the columns he wrote as a roving human-interest reporter.
Cesar Chavez (born Cesario Estrada Chavez /ˈtʃɑːvɛz/; Spanish: [ˈt͡ʃaβes]; March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was an American labor leader and civil rights activist. Along with Dolores Huerta, he co-founded the National Farm Workers Association (NFWA), which later merged with the (AWOC).
Albert Einstein (/ˈaɪnstaɪn/ EYEN-styne;[6] German: [ˈalbɛʁt ˈʔaɪnʃtaɪn] (listen); 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist,widely acknowledged to be one of the greatest influential physicists of all time. Einstein is known for developing the theory of relativity.
All the President's Men is a 1974 non-fiction book by Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, two of the journalists who investigated the June 1972 break-in at the Watergate Office Building and the resultant political scandal for The Washington Post.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks (February 4, 1913 – October 24, 2005) was an American activist in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has honored her as "the first lady of civil rights.
“Rosie the Riveter”
Naomi Fern Parker Fraley (August 26, 1921 – January 20, 2018) was an American war worker who is now considered the most likely model for the iconic "We Can Do It!" poster. During World War II, she worked on aircraft assembly.
Annie Jean Easley (April 23, 1933 – June 25, 2011) was an American computer scientist, mathematician, and rocket scientist.[1] She worked for the Lewis Research Center (now Glenn Research Center[2]) of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) and its predecessor.
Obergefell v. Hodges, 576 U.S. 644 (2015) (/ˈoʊbərɡəfɛl/ OH-bər-gə-fel), is a landmark civil rights case in which the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that the fundamental right to marry is guaranteed to same-sex couples by both the Due Process Clause and the Equal Protection.
The Constitutional Convention took place in Philadelphia from May 25 to September 17, 1787. Although the convention was intended to revise the league of states and first system of government under the Articles of Confederation.
In 1905, Robert Sengstacke Abbott, an alumnus of Howard University, founded and became publisher of the Chicago Defender. The Defender was considered the “most important” paper of what was then known as the Negro press.
Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi (/ˈɡɑːndi, ˈɡændi/;[3] GAHN-dee; 2 October 1869 – 30 January 1948) was an Indian lawyer,[4] anti-colonial nationalist[5] and political ethicist[6] who employed nonviolent resistance to lead the successful campaign for India's independence from British rule.
Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was an English political activist[1] who organised the UK suffragette movement and helped women win the right to vote. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most Important People of the 20th Century.
Laura Jane Addams[1] (September 6, 1860 – May 21, 1935) was an American settlement activist, reformer, social worker,[2][3] sociologist,[4] public administrator,[5][6] and author. She was an important leader in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States.
Ida B. Wells (full name: Ida Bell Wells-Barnett) (July 16, 1862 – March 25, 1931) was an American investigative journalist, educator, and early leader in the civil rights movement. She was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP).
Alice Allison Dunnigan (April 27, 1906 – May 6, 1983)[2] was an American journalist, civil rights activist and author.[3] Dunnigan was the first African-American female correspondent to receive White House credentials,[4] and the first black female member of the Senate.
About
About Our Firm
Reconstitution, Inc. is a California c-corporation in the process of converting to benefits corporation status. We bring to bear world-class talent to share meaningful work and reasonable returns from investment of our time and intellectual property.
Our Team
Reconstitution is currently a zero employee corporation. We are bootstrapped to date and have conserved capital in order to remain sustainable as a community-funded impact incubator among journalists, data scientists, policy pioneers, and civilians.
Bennet Harvey architected and patented the hypergraph database-driven Human Context Engine and Context Agents.
Bennet has also filed a non-provisional patent application for a system to provide intimately individualized experiences while maintaining complete anonymity.
To control commercial applications of these and other proprietary technologies, Bennet established Reconstitution as a benefit corporation offering investors an impactful balance of economic returns with measurable benefits to civilian civic engagement and empowerment.
Reconstitution’s first Context Agent product is NewsCopilot.com, a research tool to dramatically eliminate the time required for journalists to include rich relevant context in their reporting on any subject.
Reconstitution has dedicated a perpetual, royalty-free license to access the Human Context Engine and Agent to nonprofit journalism ecosystem ReNews Context Services (501c3) for the purposes for providing a new form of civilian journalism in each reader’s individual context.
The ReNews initiative is inspired by Bennet’s first career in community journalism, and his mid-90s partnership with Walter Cronkite to better engage civilians with the geopolitical and historical context of current events.
Bennet has led customer experience design and operations in big data contexts at startups and Fortune 100 corporations. He has repeatedly played a leadership role defining first-ever multi-channel digital experiences in news media (Chicago Sun-Times), consumer online services (AOL Classifieds), social media (various), banking (Wells Fargo), brokerage (Charles Schwab), insurance (Esurance), mortgage (Cendant/PHH Mortgage) and real estate (Cendant Real Estate, Move.com).
Bringing together his operational expertise across design and data, Bennet concluded his corporate career by playing a influential roles on the founding teams of first Accenture Interactive during its acquisition of Fjord to become Accenture Song, and then at Wipro Digital during its integration of DesignIt and Cooper.
Bennet founded Reconstitution in 2018, and began full-time development in November 2021. ReNews Context Services was approved as a 501c3 nonprofit news ecosystem in July 2022.
PureLogics has been Reconstitution’s primary front-end development partner since April 2022. They have provided a consistent development team of 6, quality development services, time zone coordination across hemispheres, and engaged and supportive project and client relationship management.
Established in 2006, PureLogics is a leading developer of digital products for brands big and small. Built on a reputation for reliability, they take pride in their ability to build and maintain every app, website, mobile product, widget, e-commerce tool, and enterprise portal they engineer. PureLogics believes in their products and stand by the quality and workmanship for life.
Kamal Ali, PhD has provided valuable contract services in helping define the machine learning aspects of Reconstitution’s architecture and operations. His deep knowledge of news aggregation and NLP processing helped us to see the constraints of the current media model, allowing us to define new white space solutions.
Kamal has worked with consulting clients including Yahoo, TiVo, Embodied, Fuse Machines, Gannett, State Farm, NRMA, Catalist, Elder Research, Grapevine, Reconstitution, Peerlyst, Keynote Systems. Services have included: ML/NLP/AI Engineering Manager, Analytics Manager, Advisor. 30 years ML experience. Generative AI, LLM, Deep Learning, Transformers, Conversational AI. PhD: Ensemble Learning, Mixtures of Experts. Engineering: 100M+ users system (Apple News), 6M users (TiVo Suggestions). Book on ML, 30 peer reviewed papers, ~2000 citations, chaired KDD, other conferences, reviewer. Research scientist at Stanford University.
Sribatsa Das is a FinTech, Ad-Tech, Mobile and Digital expert. Sribatsa created Altman Z-Score+ Corporate Credit Risk App to identify bankruptcies long before they occur in collaboration with Dr. Ed Altman, Professor of Finance at NYU Stern School of Business. He launched Altman Z-Score+ on Web Portal (http://www.altmanzscoreplus.com), Desktop, Mobile, Wearable and Bloomberg Platform (APPS ALTMAN <GO>). He has led the creation of Web Service APIs, Web Widgets and Badges. Sribatsa has integrated market data from Xignite, Bloomberg, Capital IQ and FactSet. He has mined SEC XBRL filings to generate financial data for public companies and private companies with public debt. He has created 200+ mobile financial apps. He has deep insight into banking, financial services, insurance, high-tech, retail, travel & hospitality, real estate, SaaS, mobile app, e-commerce and B2B products/services industries. Sribatsa has led digital marketing and channel strategy including e-mail, direct mail, out-bound calling, social media, video and search advertisement. He has led large corporate programs to deliver long lasting value to corporations. He has led integrations from Corporate M&A.
BusinessCompass has been Reconstitution’s primary back-end development partner for four years. They have provided a consistent team of 6 development and network admin resources throughout the relationship. Their CEO, Sribatsa Das, has served as Reconstitution’s contract CTO.
BusinessCompass is a trusted partner in cloud journey for their clients. They are AWS Advanced Consulting Partner. The BusinessCompass team is comprised of AWS certified Solution Architects, Security Specialists, Big Data Specialists, Machine Learning Specialists and DevOps Engineers. They assist clients with cloud assessment, cloud migration, cost optimization, security assessment, infrastructure set up, network set-up, disaster recovery and high availability set up. They have set up Big Data, Machine Learning and IoT solutions, migrated servers, applications and databases. We have set up remote working environments, built, migrated, and performance tested websites. BusinessCompass works on diverse industry including utility, financial, media and technology companies and small & medium businesses.
Maria Kieslich has provided Reconstitution with consukting services in the development of the Wealth & Markets, and EMployment & Income topic areas. She is an expert at identifying and summarizing trends, inflection points, and multivariate factors impacting economic activity.
Maria is a decisive, energetic professional with 15+ years of senior management experience in start-ups and small companies. Additional 5+ years working for large financial institutions. Key team member positions in marketing, product management, product management, development and strategy. Consistently successful at achieving objectives in a fluid environment, and fostering a positive and productive work culture. Occasional speaker and blogger on women’s career issues and economics. Positions on corporate boards and town committees. MBA, University of Chicago. PMP Certificate. Certified ScrumMaster
Key Skills: Project management (PMP Certificate), Agile development, business plan development, product definition and road mapping. Clear written communications. Specialized knowledge in securitization, financial services and data acquisition.
As Editorial Manager Selen Ozturk supports Reconstitution and ReNews Context Services in building editorial governance and operations. Selen has consulted on the definition of prototype contextual journalism experiences in Employment & Income and Housing & Homelessness topics.
Selen has also been Research Director, and Special Assignment Reporter for American Community Media (formerly Ethnic Media Services). She received a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley.
Investors
Reconstitution, Inc. is a California C-corporation in the process of registering as a Benefits Corporation. We plan to seek investment through crowdfunding under Title III, Regulations CF and 506c of the Jobs Act.