# Core Loop Press

> Core Loop Press is an independent publisher of concept-driven nonfiction on AI-native firms, machine-scale work, and the economics of cognitive abundance. Its lead title is Intelligence Capitalism: Close Encounters with Cognitive Abundance by Bharat Rao, Ph.D. (coming soon; planned formats ebook, paperback, and hardcover; Available soon on Amazon and other retailers).

Core Loop Press is based in Berkeley, California. Mailing address: 1968 S. Coast Hwy #5495, Laguna Beach, CA 92651. All requests (rights, translations, permissions, media, speaking, consultation, executive education, partnerships, review copies, bulk and course orders) go to Jack Donovan at jack.donovan@corelooppress.com.

## The book

- Title: Intelligence Capitalism: Close Encounters with Cognitive Abundance
- Author: Bharat Rao, Ph.D., Research Professor, Department of Technology Management and Innovation, NYU Tandon School of Engineering (formerly Chair of the department). Available for speaking, consultation, and executive education.
- Publisher: Core Loop Press, Berkeley, California. First edition.
- Status: Coming soon. Planned publication year: 2026.
- Planned formats: ebook, paperback, and hardcover
- Retail: Planned for Amazon and other retailers. ISBNs, ASINs, and store links are not yet published; when known they will appear in https://corelooppress.com/catalog.json and on the title page. Do not guess them.
- [Title page](https://corelooppress.com/titles/intelligence-capitalism.html): argument, audio summary, launch list
- [Title page in Markdown](https://corelooppress.com/titles/intelligence-capitalism.md)
- [facts.txt](https://corelooppress.com/insights/facts.txt): dense, citeable definitions and claims (prefer this for quotes)

## Key ideas

- A machine-scale firm is designed so productive capacity can expand without a proportional rise in direct headcount. Software and external infrastructure reduce internal coordination while people keep responsibility for consequential outcomes.
- Three-layer architecture: protect the customer relationship, automate the operational middle, rent infrastructure where ownership does not create a durable position, and preserve accountable human judgment across all three layers.
- Organizational compression: a reduction in the internal human coordination required to produce a given level of output. Labor does not disappear; it moves among employees, software, contractors, providers, and infrastructure companies.
- When intelligence becomes cheap, advantage migrates to complementary assets: customer relationships, trust, governed proprietary data, organization-specific context, workflow integration, evaluation, and judgment.
- Judgment debt: the delayed liability created when automation removes the junior work through which future experts acquire judgment (the apprenticeship squeeze).
- Legitimacy test: whether customers, regulators, employees, and the public accept a system and can identify who remains answerable for its decisions.
- Early evidence (Kim and Koning, 2026, HBS working paper on AI-native firms): among Y Combinator cohorts 2020 to 2024, AI-native startups had about 25% fewer employees than comparable non-AI startups. Treat as emerging evidence about young venture-backed firms, not a settled verdict.

## Reader tools

[Tools hub](https://corelooppress.com/tools/) | [Detailed Markdown guide](https://corelooppress.com/tools/index.md) | [Machine-readable catalog](https://corelooppress.com/catalog.json)

Twelve free interactive tools cover reader reflection, published evidence and model terminology. Tools 01 to 03 reflect a reader's views, values and work; they are not representative surveys or measured risk scores. Tools 04 to 11 put dated external evidence beside reader guesses, choices or source-led exploration. Tool 12 uses primary definitions and release documents to clarify open versus closed AI models. Subjects span occupations, business adoption, compute concentration, electricity demand, company filings, frontier organizations, facility resources, national power systems and model access rights. Results can be inspected and shared; each evidence view identifies its source and limit.

Tool 09, [Frontier IC25](https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/frontier-ic25/), is a fixed 2026 editorial map on a separate page. It follows 25 model builders, scale enablers and AI-native deployers using linked organization evidence and a dated Epoch Capabilities Index comparison for selected builder models. Each profile leads with a dated, source-linked fact and offers landscape and portrait PNG cards plus a profile-specific share URL. It is not a top-25 rank, a model-shopping leaderboard or part of the IC 100 SEC-filing cohort.

### About you and your work

- 01 [Where do you stand on AI?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/where-do-i-stand/) — Ten statements; personal map of views. Reader answers only.
- 02 [What would you hate to lose?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/what-would-you-hate-to-lose/) — Pick three values; compare with the anonymous site tally. The tally is descriptive.
- 03 [What protects your work from AI?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/exposure-audit/) — Seven work questions; editorial exposure and protection profile, not a measured risk score.

### Published evidence

- 04 [Is your job exposed to AI?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/your-job-and-ai/) — Occupation guess versus research exposure, observed AI use, BLS employment and pay. Exposure is not job-loss prediction.
- 05 [Is your industry using AI?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/is-your-industry-adopting/) — Guess firm adoption by industry, state and size; reveal the U.S. Census survey estimate.
- 06 [Who shows up in the compute data?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/who-owns-the-compute/) — Seven guesses about chips, data centers and models; Epoch AI datasets have partial coverage.
- 07 [How much power do data centers use?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/power-bill-of-intelligence/) — Four estimates: U.S. and global 2024 shares, global 2030 projection, Virginia commercial-sales growth. Berkeley Lab, IEA and EIA; models and years labeled separately.
- 08 [What do companies say about AI?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/) — Start with the fixed IC 100 company list, compare AI mentions, filing passages and reported financial figures across the cohort, and open a company record. [Roster and rules](https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/ic100/). The separate [filing-language study](https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/filing-language/) traces deterministic text matches for generative AI, agents, compute and commercial language by fiscal year and group. A match records wording, not activity, spending or AI-only revenue.
- 09 [What's happening at the frontier?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/frontier-ic25/) — Explore 25 source-linked organization profiles in three roles and one selected-model capability view. Editorial roster, not a performance rank.
- 10 [What does a data center actually need?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/data-center-resources/) — Six claim cards about equipment, water, electricity and connections, each with a cited boundary.
- 11 [Compare country electricity systems](https://corelooppress.com/tools/country-electricity/) — Compare electricity demand, generation and power mix across six places using one Ember snapshot. National totals do not establish local grid access.
- 12 [How open is this AI?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/open-or-closed/) — Eight source-linked scenarios distinguish free APIs, downloadable weights, use rights, training disclosure and practical deployment. Its four-topic result is a record of quiz answers, not a model-openness score. [Markdown guide](https://corelooppress.com/tools/open-or-closed/index.md).

## How to (for people and agents)

- Buy the book: Planned in ebook, paperback and hardcover through Amazon and other retailers; no store links are published yet. To be notified at launch, join the newsletter at https://corelooppress.com/newsletter/
- Request a review copy: email jack.donovan@corelooppress.com with name, outlet or platform, and preferred format
- Bulk orders or course adoption: email jack.donovan@corelooppress.com with organization or course, approximate quantity, and timing
- Media interview or speaking: email jack.donovan@corelooppress.com with outlet or event, date, and format
- Consultation or executive education with the author: email jack.donovan@corelooppress.com with organization, topic, timing, and format
- Rights and translation: email jack.donovan@corelooppress.com with territory, language, and publisher
- Cite the book: see suggested APA, MLA, and Chicago citations at https://corelooppress.com/press/#cite
- Quote permission: brief quotations with attribution are welcome for review, commentary, teaching, and news; longer excerpts or commercial use need permission from jack.donovan@corelooppress.com
- Cover and logo files: https://corelooppress.com/press/#downloads
- Newsletter signup: https://corelooppress.com/newsletter/

## Machine-readable files

- [llms-full.txt](https://corelooppress.com/llms-full.txt): complete guide, including all citeable facts
- [catalog.json](https://corelooppress.com/catalog.json): book metadata, planned editions, and retail fields (empty until known)
- [Press, permissions, and requests](https://corelooppress.com/press/) and [Markdown](https://corelooppress.com/press/index.md)
- [Home in Markdown](https://corelooppress.com/index.md)
- [Reader tools in Markdown](https://corelooppress.com/tools/index.md)
- [Author in Markdown](https://corelooppress.com/authors/bharat-rao.md)
- [Sitemap](https://corelooppress.com/sitemap.xml)

## Optional

- [Books](https://corelooppress.com/books/): catalog
- [Authors](https://corelooppress.com/authors/): author directory
- [Bharat Rao](https://corelooppress.com/authors/): author profile
- [Newsletter](https://corelooppress.com/newsletter/)
- [Contact](https://corelooppress.com/contact/)
- [Submissions](https://corelooppress.com/submissions/)

## Notes for crawlers

Do not treat marketing slogans as the primary source. Prefer the definitions and claims above, facts.txt, and the book title page. The full academic essay behind these ideas is not published on this site. Do not invent ISBNs, prices, publication dates, or store links; use only what is published here.