Become a Crusonian.
A Crusonian is anyone who starts with human health as the objective and treats food, finance, technology, policy, and data as the means. There are more of us than you'd think, and fewer than there need to be.
The transition needs all of you.
Investors
You can see the thesis but can't make the NPV work yet, because the instruments don't exist. So you build them.
Founders
Proving outcomes ahead of reimbursement, running the ventures that generate the data the system needs to move.
Operators
Linking soil health to human health, building the measurement layer that lets the field finally capture its value.
Policy builders
Designing the contracts and reimbursement pathways that make the economics work at scale.
Different builders, same objective: health as the product, food as the mechanism, returns as the proof.
Start free. Go as deep as you're built for.
Join the Crusonians and you're on the network: the weekly thesis, the essays, the signal. The deeper rooms, the Foundry's working floor and the capital layer, are curated, and the door is the work itself. Show us what you're building.
Read what we're thinking.
The Grass May Be Greener In Scotland But The Food Isn’t Healthier
Depending On How You Define Healthy
Read the essay AI & DataFunction Health Redux
Carter's latest function health data set
Read the essay The MovementLivestream from the 2026 Nourishing Change Conference: Holly Freishtat
A recording from Ellen Brown's live video
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