# 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.

Frontier IC25 edition 2026.3, evidence reviewed October 8, 2026 UTC: 25 profiles, model economics, financial scope, deployment and integrated value chains. The web tool is free. The updated 37-page source-linked PDF is available to confirmed newsletter subscribers; existing subscribers receive direct content access, while new subscriptions require an email confirmation. This is a dated editorial snapshot, not a ranking or live feed.

### 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 [Frontier IC25](https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/frontier-ic25/) — Frontier IC25 edition 2026.3, evidence reviewed October 8, 2026 UTC: 25 profiles, model economics, financial scope, deployment and integrated value chains. The web tool is free. The updated 37-page source-linked PDF is available to confirmed newsletter subscribers; existing subscribers receive direct content access, while new subscriptions require an email confirmation. This is a dated editorial snapshot, not a ranking or live feed.
- 10 [What does a data center actually need?](https://corelooppress.com/tools/data-center-resources/) — Sourced electricity and water quantities, separate model outlooks, grid-development ranges and an adjustable operational example.
- 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).

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## 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

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## IC Atlas and IC Radio

- [IC Atlas](https://corelooppress.com/atlas/): explore people, ideas and works across AI, economics and culture, with timelines, connections and original source notes.
- [IC Radio](https://corelooppress.com/radio/): explore the same collection through a radio interface with optional sound.
- [Shared reading collection](https://corelooppress.com/atlas/collection/): 3,747 accepted readings, readable without JavaScript. Source notes and editorial interpretations identify their limits; this is not a complete history or a ranking. Both browser tools are free and require no account.

## Field guides (free PDFs, six languages)

- [Field guides hub, English](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/): free illustrated guides with an in-browser reader and PDF downloads. Published guides: A Field Guide to Intelligence Capitalism.
- [中文 (zh-Hans)](https://corelooppress.com/zh/field-guides/): 免费图文实战指南，六种语言原生排版。在线翻阅或下载 PDF。
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### PDF editions

- [A Field Guide to Intelligence Capitalism (English, PDF, 8 pages)](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/pdf/intelligence-capitalism-field-guide-en.pdf)
- [智能资本主义实战指南 (中文, PDF, 8 pages)](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/pdf/intelligence-capitalism-field-guide-zh.pdf)
- [知能資本主義フィールドガイド (日本語, PDF, 8 pages)](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/pdf/intelligence-capitalism-field-guide-ja.pdf)
- [Guide de terrain du capitalisme de l’intelligence (Français, PDF, 8 pages)](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/pdf/intelligence-capitalism-field-guide-fr.pdf)
- [Praxisführer zum Intelligenzkapitalismus (Deutsch, PDF, 8 pages)](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/pdf/intelligence-capitalism-field-guide-de.pdf)
- [Guía de campo del capitalismo de la inteligencia (Español, PDF, 8 pages)](https://corelooppress.com/field-guides/pdf/intelligence-capitalism-field-guide-es.pdf)

## Frontier IC25 report

Frontier IC25 edition 2026.3, evidence reviewed October 8, 2026 UTC: 25 profiles, model economics, financial scope, deployment and integrated value chains. The web tool is free. The updated 37-page source-linked PDF is available to confirmed newsletter subscribers; existing subscribers receive direct content access, while new subscriptions require an email confirmation. This is a dated editorial snapshot, not a ranking or live feed.
https://corelooppress.com/tools/say-versus-spend/frontier-ic25/#download-report