Industry classifications are 75 years old. Markets aren't.

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2.5%
annually.

That's the median opportunity cost of navigating modern markets with mid-20th-century classification systems.

Not fees. Not timing. Categorization.

Legacy Classification
Automotive
  • Tesla
  • Ford
  • General Motors
Economic Reality
Distinct Paradigms
  • Energy & compute infrastructure
  • Advanced manufacturing systems
  • Legacy assembly production

Many capital, governance, and risk models classify Tesla and Ford together.

However, treating them as equivalent can obscure true risk, mislead investment, and facilitate misalign governance decisions.

Similar misclassifications occur across sectors—retail, technology, finance, energy, healthcare, and public systems—where traditional categories fail to capture structural differences.

When paradigms replace industries:

Constraints once attributed to markets are revealed as classificatory errors.

Our Methodology

Ingenio CIX develops classification frameworks that surface misidentified productive capacity, particularly where governance, risk, and capital models rely on outdated industrial taxonomies.

Our work reframes markets as systems of categorization. When categories fail, governance fails quietly, risk is mispriced, accountability blurs, and capital compounds error instead of value.

The conceptual engine behind this framework is articulated through the Assets & Allegory podcast, which explores how misclassification distorts decision-making across private, nonprofit, and public systems.

Listen here: Assets & Allegory

Audience
Capital Allocators
Allocating across paradigm shifts rather than sector labels.
Episodes 1 · 2 · 6 · 8
Audience
Boards & Governance Leaders
Aligning oversight, risk, and incentives with economic reality.
Episodes 3 · 6 · 7 · 8
Audience
Executives & Operators
Managing structural change inside legacy organizations.
Episodes 1 · 2 · 5 · 6
Audience
Policy & Urban Systems
Designing governance around productive capacity, not categories.
Episodes 4 · 5 · 7 · 10

If this framework clarifies a live governance, investment, or strategic decision, the tools may be useful.

Ingenio CIX is designed for investors who:

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