Achievements of 2025
In A Gist
In just 15 months, the Coalition built the most comprehensive advocacy resource ever assembled for a global AI treaty: our 354-page Strategic Memo synthesizing 667+ sources with tailored persuasion strategies for each key influencer.
Our October 2025 US Persuasion Tour exceeded all projections—delivering 85+ contacts (vs. 15-20 projected), including 23 AI lab officials at OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, plus 18 national security establishment engagements. Most critically: direct introducer pathways to 2 of our 10 primary targets.
The Coalition now includes 100+ members, advisors, and supporters—with expert contributors from the UN, NSA, WEF, Yale, and Princeton—and six founding NGO partners bringing 100+ combined years of global governance experience.
All this on $72,000 total funding and a $7,500/month burn rate—roughly $180 per high-value meeting. We've achieved more analytical depth and direct engagement than organizations operating with ten times our budget.
As per our Roadmap, the political window is now, with Trump's ratings at historical lows, and his voters concerns about AI very high and rising, and several anticipated meetings with Xi in 2026. What we need next is operational capacity to deploy these assets.
Ten Months That Changed Everything
In February 2025, four days before our closure due to lack of funds, we received a $60,000 seed grant from the Survival and Flourishing Fund. We had an intuition, a strategic analysis, a dedicated volunteer team, and an ambitious goal: find ways to (most effectively contribute to) persuade the US President to pursue a US-China-led global AI treaty .
Ten months later, we have something far more valuable: an unprecedented body of knowledge for a persuasion campaign on the key people that will shape the future of AI, and proven and expanding pathways to reach them.
Our recent October 2025 US Persuasion Tour — spanning the Bay Area and Washington, DC — built relationships with 23 AI lab policy and strategy officials, activated 18 national security contacts in DC, and established direct introducer pathways to multiple primary target influencers. We returned to Rome and poured everything we learned into a complete overhaul of our strategic document.
The result is a 350-page Strategic Memo v2.6: a treasure trove of tailored arguments, psychological profiles, philosophical analyses, and convergence scenarios for every key influencer—Vance, Altman, Amodei, Thiel, Musk, Bannon, Pope Leo XIV and a dozen more. No other organization has assembled anything comparable.
We are now positioned to easily 10x our outreach power. The foundations are built. The political moment is aligned. What we now need is the operational capacity to effectively leverage at scale this treasure trove of information and our wide network.
So how did we get here? And why are the next six months more important than anything we've done so far?
The Pivot (February 2025)
For twelve months before receiving our seed funding, we had been working through diplomatic channels in Geneva, engaging UN missions, building coalitions among smaller nations. The work was valuable. But in early 2025, we confronted an uncomfortable truth.
The race toward superintelligence isn't waiting for multilateral consensus. Neither UN processes nor European regulations can move fast enough—or carry sufficient weight—to matter. If a treaty capable of actually constraining AI development is going to happen, it will require the two nations with the most advanced AI capabilities to take the lead: the United States and China.
This realization reshaped everything. We launched The Deal of the Century and redirected all resources toward a single objective: convincing key influencers of Trump's AI policy to champion a US-China-led treaty before the window closes.
The $60,000 seed grant gave us runway to execute. And we got to work.
The Deep Dive (February–September 2025)
We spent seven months conducting what we believe is the most exhaustive analysis ever undertaken of the people who will shape American AI policy.
The work was intensive. Our team — drawing on mostly-volunteer contributors with backgrounds spanning UN diplomacy, NSA operations, World Economic Forum policy, Yale, and Princeton — immersed in the public record of our target influencers. We analyzed their speeches, interviews, writings, and social media. We mapped their philosophical commitments, their professional interests, their psychological patterns. We identified where their worldviews converge and where they diverge.
We held three week-long, in-person analysis sprints near Rome, Italy, and we brought together 20+ contributors to pressure-test our assessments and develop tailored persuasion strategies for each influencer.
What emerged was unprecedented: detailed profiles showing not just what each influencer believes about AI, but why they believe it—and what arguments might move them toward supporting a global treaty.
The output was a Strategic Memo v2.0, published September 24th: 130 pages featuring open letters to each key influencer, strategic briefs adapted to their specific concerns, and convergence scenarios showing how a critical mass could align behind a unified pitch to Trump.
We had the analysis. Now we needed to test it in the field.
The 1st US Persuasion Tour (October 2025)
In October, we went to where the decisions are being made.
Bay Area (October 3–21)
We set up a temporary Coalition HQ at the Hilton Hotel in Berkeley Marina and spent eighteen days building relationships with the people closest to AI lab leadership.
The approach was multi-pronged. We hosted one-to-one and group briefings at our temporary office. We activated our network for warm introductions. We held evening advocacy gatherings at Sens restaurant in San Francisco, bringing together introducers, advisors, supporters, and prospective donors. We conducted field engagements at AI lab headquarters—two days of direct contact at OpenAI and Anthropic, connecting with policy and strategy staff, sharing our open letters for internal forwarding.
We weren't expecting to meet Altman or Amodei on this first trip. That wasn't the goal. The goal was to build a layer of relationships that could make those meetings possible—to establish credibility, to identify warm introduction pathways, to understand the internal dynamics at each lab.
It worked. By the end of three weeks, we had engaged over 40 people across AI labs, the investor community, and the governance research world. Several senior policy officials at Anthropic expressed substantive interest in our treaty framework. We secured introduction pathways toward executives in Altman's orbit. We acquired testimonials and onboarded high-value contributors for the next version of our memo.
Washington, DC (October 21–24)
From the Bay Area, we flew to Washington for four intensive days with the national security establishment.
Our network here is deep—former NSA officials, connections to defense think tanks, ties to the intelligence community, relationships with a former top US cyber diplomat. We activated those connections through strategic gatherings, coordination meetings with DC teams of major AI safety organizations, briefings with think tank researchers, and evening gatherings for coalition members and guests.
The October DC trip established direct introducer pathways to two of our ten primary target influencers. We secured commitments from former officials to provide testimonials. Most importantly, we identified specific leverage points for framing our treaty proposal in terms that resonate with the incoming administration: "peace through strength," securing American technological advantage, preventing China from gaining unilateral control.
We returned to Rome with notebooks full of field intelligence—and a clear mandate to upgrade our strategic document.
The Treasure Trove (November–December 2025)
Everything we learned in October went into a complete overhaul of the Strategic Memo.
The Strategic Memo v2.6, published December 30th, is now 350 pages. It represents the most comprehensive resource ever assembled for advocating a global AI treaty to American leadership:
Greatly expanded influencer profiles incorporating field intelligence from the October tour—not just what they've said publicly, but how their organizations actually operate, who has their ear, what arguments resonate internally
Updated political analysis reflecting new administration appointments—David Sacks as AI Czar, Michael Kratsios as OSTP Director nominee—and what these appointments signal about policy direction
Refined convergence scenarios showing multiple pathways to unified influencer support, calibrated to the specific relationships and dynamics we observed in the field
Realistic and actionable treaty-making principles, framework and timelines with enforcement mechanisms designed to address both the "Armageddon" concern (ungoverned AI leading to extinction) and the "Antichrist" concern (governed AI enabling authoritarianism).
Tailored direct/open letters and strategic briefs for each target, updated based on everything we learned
The 350-page memo is a treasure trove—but a treasure trove requires people to deploy it. Every profile, every argument, every convergence scenario is ammunition for a persuasion campaign. With the right team, even junior staff can use AI tools to transform this material into highly personalized engagements across every channel we've opened.
Where We Stand Now
In ten months, starting from a $72,000 seed grant, we have built:
A Strategic Arsenal The 350-page Strategic Memo contains more actionable intelligence on AI policy influencers than any document we're aware of. It's not academic analysis—it's a playbook for persuasion, with tailored approaches for each target based on their specific worldview, interests, and pressure points.
Proven Pathways The October tour established 85+ contacts across AI labs, the national security establishment, think tanks, and the investor community. These aren't cold leads—they're relationships with demonstrated interest, many of whom have already provided testimonials or offered to facilitate introductions.
Direct Introducer Access We now have direct pathways to 2 of our 10 primary target influencers, with warm introductions developing toward several others. The next step is converting introducer relationships into influencer meetings.
Strategic Positioning Our coalition of 100+ members, advisors, and supporters is concentrated precisely where AI policy decisions are made: Bay Area, Washington DC, Rome/Vatican, and the Mar-a-Lago area. This positioning is deliberate and took years to build.
Vatican Connections Our relationships with Pope Leo XIV's inner circle and top Vatican AI advisors position us to potentially convene something unprecedented: private gatherings that could catalyze the humanist AI alliance we're working to build.
Political Alignment The incoming administration is actively shaping its AI policy posture. Our "peace through strength" framing resonates with their worldview. The anticipated Trump-Xi summit in late April 2026 creates a natural focal point. The window is open.
The Foundation Is Built. The Moment Is Now.
We've proven we can build relationships and produce world-class analysis on a shoestring budget. Our burn rate is ~$7,500/month. Our cost per high-value meeting during the October tour was approximately $180. We've achieved more analytical depth, more direct engagement, and more strategic positioning than organizations operating with ten times our budget.
The constraint is no longer strategy or positioning. It's operational capacity.
With $150,000–$400,000 in funding and 2-3 dedicated hires starting in early January, we can 10x our outreach power. The 350-page treasure trove becomes a living arsenal. Every contact from October gets systematic follow-up. Every introducer pathway gets worked toward influencer access. Every hub operates simultaneously rather than sequentially.
The next six months represent the most critical window for influencing American AI policy toward a global treaty. We're positioned to seize it.
Our plans for 2026: