The Institute measures provenance erasure and semantic rent. It also sells entity deployment. Those two facts are related, and stating the relation is the first thing our own instruments require of anyone.

In the terms of the class model we publish, the Semantic Economy Institute is semantic infrastructure holder — an owner of means of semantic production: an archive, an identifier system, domains, a corpus, and a commercial line that sells the method. The model does not treat ownership as disqualifying. It treats undisclosed ownership as the thing worth measuring, and it applies that test here before anywhere else.

So, plainly: Rex Fraction is the commercial voice. Lee Sharks is the archival authority. The instruments are CC BY-SA and usable by people who never hire us. Where a measurement of ours bears on a service of ours, the conflict is stated on the page rather than in a footnote — because a metric that demands disclosure of everyone else, and files its own position where no client will meet it, is not disclosing. It is publishing.