The research institute defining the science of interpretation in modern systems
Turning meaning into operational intelligence.
A New Science for a New Era.
The Institute advances the first General Theory of how interpretation remains reliable in AI-accelerated environments.
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Featured Governance: C Series
Artificial Intelligence as a Meaning System
Responding to the Crisis of Machine-Generated Meaning
November 2025
A landmark governance monograph that reframes AI as a meaning-making system and explains why machine-scale variation destabilizes cultural, institutional, and organizational environments. Introduces Meaning-System Governance and defines the proportional standards required to stabilize truth, signals, structure, drift, and affect as human and machine systems jointly produce meaning.
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Featured Foundations: A Series
The Scientific Lineage of Meaning
Traces the scientific lineage that made Meaning System Science possible. Through the lives and discoveries of Tarski, Saussure, Bertalanffy, Prigogine, and Barrett, this monograph shows how five independent breakthroughs revealed the structural conditions of interpretation and now form a unified scientific architecture.
The 3E Method™: Transformation should strengthen its people, not spend them.
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Teams
Gives teams real direction so they can stop guessing, stop compensating, and actually do the work they were hired to do.
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Project Managers
Shields PMs from chaos, last-minute pivots, and misaligned leaders, so you don’t become the default firefighter or the next scapegoat.
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Sponsors
Gives sponsors clean visibility so decisions aren’t made in the dark and accountability doesn’t get passed down the line.
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Executives
Protects executives from noisy data, unclear signals, and overconfident narratives, so your decisions trace back to reality, not politics.
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Organizations
Protects the whole system from drift culture, so performance isn’t built on heroics, burnout, or people quietly holding the pieces together.
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People Leaders
Gives people leaders the system-level support needed to scale what works, without relying on goodwill.
Upcoming Release:
THE MATH OF MEANING
What happens to the meaning of life when meaning itself becomes a scientific variable?
For generations, meaning has been treated as a feeling, nothing more. Personal, unstable, and private.
The Math of Meaning begins from a different discovery: meaning is structural. It forms and stabilizes according to measurable forces that govern every human system.
Drawing on Meaning System Science, the book shows that meaning behaves as a multi-variable system shaped by semantic truth, signal alignment, structural coherence, thermodynamic drift, and affective regulation. When proportion is kept, systems evolve with coherence. When it isn’t, the same information produces different interpretations and coordinated direction becomes impossible to sustain.
This shift turns an age old question into a scientific one: What happens to the meaning of life when meaning itself can be measured?
The Math of Meaning reveals why coherence has become scarce in modern institutions, and why drift now rises even inside environments that appear stable until pressure exposes their limits.
Meaning is not a feeling we pursue.
It is a structure we can finally understand,
and therefore a structure we can finally protect.
By Jordan Vallejo, PMP®
Principal Researcher, Transformation Management Institute™
Releasing free to the public in 2026. Join the Institute for updates.
Legitimacy is not argued.
It is practiced.
The 3E Standard™ applies Transformation Science to real institutions, where ambition meets accountability.
If you’re wondering how a science of meaning exists at all, read our FAQ.
AN ORGANIZATION CANNOT BECOME ITSELF UNTIL IT KNOWS WHAT IT MEANS.
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