Our Tools

Our tools include models we’ve built for social wealth fund management, microsimulations for advising on tax policy, analysis of credit bureau data to understand the student debt crisis, and more. In our early years, we built income share agreement models and contracts; since then, we’ve used our data and financial expertise to design pilots and policy across our initiatives.

FeMCI

A tool for governments to explore hypothetical portfolios, visualize trade offs between risk and returns, and estimate investment fees.

Levelized Cost of Energy

This tool provides investors and policymakers with an actionable picture of the factors influencing the financing and bankability of green technologies in the United States.

Transition Critical Minerals

This tool maps the high-level distribution of current and future mining production and potential royalty revenue globally through 2030.

Splice

This tool visualizes how a company’s greenhouse gas emissions change over time.

Mapping Student Debt

A country-wide analysis and visualization of student debt and its relationship with demographic characteristics, school characteristics, and labor market characteristics.

SFI Model

Used for fund and capital formation analytics, contract design, and permanent capital structure for the Student Freedom Initiative (SFI), an evergreening higher education financing fund for minority-serving institutions.

Public Banking Simulator

The simulator enables the public to allocate resources among the proposed public bank lending programs, testing cost and profit assumptions across the bank’s hypothetical balance sheet.

Impulse

An agent-based energy system simulation tool that captures the systematic response among investors to influxes of catalytic capital into different generation technologies.

Mining Fiscal Regime Simulator

Enables more informed and critical comparison of the varying tax and royalty pathways for producer country value capture from the mining sector.

The Mumbuca Network

A visualization of the dissemination of a local digital currency through the economy of a city in Brazil.

Mineral Market Dashboard

The dashboard benchmarks varying projections for transition-critical mineral market growth.

Cash Transfer Microsimulations

These tools examine the poverty, distributional, and cost implications of changes to taxes and transfers, and for exploring the implications of benefit design (e.g. phase-ins and phase-outs) and financing choices.