Roadmap for 2026

In a Gist

The window is now. Trump's anticipated meeting with Xi in late April 2026 creates a once-in-a-generation opportunity to advance a US-led global AI treaty. And we're positioned like never before to seize it.

Our 2025 achievements built an extraordinary foundation: 85+ contacts from our October US Tour (vs. 15-20 projected), 23 AI lab officials at OpenAI, Anthropic, and DeepMind, and direct introducer pathways to multiple key influencers. Our 354-page Strategic Memo—synthesizing 667+ sources—is a treasure trove of tailored arguments, psychological profiles, and convergence scenarios for every target from Vance to Altman to Pope Leo XIV. No other organization has assembled anything comparable.

2026 targets: 150+ introducer engagements across four hubs (Bay Area, DC, Mar-a-Lago, Rome), 30+ direct engagements with influencers or their key AI policy staff or advisors and 5-8 substantive meetings with them. Two Strategic Memo updates timed to the summit window. The Vatican could play a catalyzing role in convening a humanist AI alliance—uniting figures concerned about AI threats to human dignity—though multiple pathways exist.

The constraint is now operational capacity. With 2-3 dedicated hires, we can leverage AI tools to transform our treasure trove into personalized outreach at scale, maintain continuous presence across hubs, and systematically convert open channels into influencer access. The foundation is built. Join us or support our work to help us walk through the doors we've opened.

Ready to Scale: The Next 12 Months

Ten months ago, we had a theory and a plan: a few potential influencers of Trump's AI policy were crucial to the future of humanity and AI. Today, we have something far more valuable: proven pathways and a vast strategic treasure trove to persuade the people who will shape American AI policy.

The October 2025 US Persuasion Tour — in the Bay Area and Washington, DC — built relationships with 23 AI lab officials, activated 18 national security contacts, and established direct introducer pathways to multiple influencers, including the top AI advisors or head of policy of two of those influencers.  

We returned to Rome with notebooks full of field intelligence that we poured into a complete overhaul of our strategic document.

The result is the 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, Bannon, Amodei,  Gabbard, Suleyman, Hassabis, Thiel, Musk, 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.

The Multiplier Effect: Why 2-3 Hires Changes Everything

A 350-page strategic memo doesn't persuade anyone by itself. It requires people to deploy it—systematically, persistently, across every channel we've opened.

Here's what changes with 2-3 dedicated team members:

AI-Augmented Persuasion at Scale. Even junior staff can now leverage AI tools to transform our treasure trove into highly personalized engagement. The Strategic Memo contains detailed profiles of each influencer's worldview, their specific concerns, and their persuadable points. With the right prompts, a small team can generate:

  • Tailored follow-up communications for every contact from the October tour

  • Customized briefing materials adapted to each introducer's relationship with their target

  • Real-time talking points calibrated to breaking political developments

  • Persuasive content for multiple channels simultaneously

What took our core team months to produce manually can now be operationalized in weeks. The memo becomes a living arsenal rather than a static document.

Systematic Follow-Through The October tour opened doors. But doors close if you don't walk through them. With dedicated staff:

  • Every one of the 23 AI lab contacts gets sustained engagement

  • Every national security relationship gets nurtured toward deeper access

  • Every introducer pathway gets worked systematically toward influencer meetings

  • Every testimonial request gets followed up, and every volunteer gets activated

Multi-Hub Operations. We currently operate with a single full-time staff, managing Rome operations while periodically traveling to the US. With additional staff, we can:

  • Maintain continuous presence in multiple hubs simultaneously

  • Run parallel engagement tracks in Washington, the Bay Area, and Mar-a-Lago

  • Respond immediately to political developments and emerging opportunities

  • Organize advocacy gatherings and private briefings at far greater frequency

The Political Moment

The timing could not be better aligned. The anticipated Trump-Xi summit in late April 2026 creates a natural focal point for AI governance discussions at the highest level. 

Our "peace through strength" framing—positioning a US-China treaty as securing permanent American technological advantage rather than constraining American power—resonates with the incoming team's worldview. The influencers we're targeting have direct access to Trump. The convergence scenarios in our memo show how their different philosophies can align on shared concerns about uncontrolled AI development.

The window is open. It won't stay open forever.

What We'll Achieve: 12-Month Targets

With $150,000–$400,000 in funding and 2-3 dedicated hires starting in early January, we project the following outcomes in 2026:

Strategic Documentation

  • Strategic Memo v3.0 published by the end of January with updated open letters

  • Strategic Memo v3.5 published by mid-April, positioned for the summit window

  • Continuous refinement incorporating field intelligence and political developments

Influencer & Introducer Engagement

  • 150+ total engagements with introducers across all four hubs (up from ~50 in 2025)

  • 30+ direct interactions with the targeted influencers or their senior staff

  • 5-8 substantive meetings with the targeted influencers themselves

  • 50+ follow-up engagements with October tour contacts

Coalition Building

  • 25+ new high-value testimonials from credible voices

  • 15+ new expert contributors to the Strategic Memo

  • 130+ total coalition members, advisors, and supporters (up from 100+)

Media & Public Positioning

  • 3-5 strategic media placements in high-influence publications

  • Expanded social media presence with consistent content cadence

  • Public momentum building toward the summit window

The Rome/Vatican Catalyst: A Potential Breakthrough

Among all our planned activities, one stands out as potentially transformative: private gatherings in Rome and the Vatican bringing together key introducers and influencers around March-May 2026.

The Vatican occupies a unique position. It is trusted by both Washington and Beijing. Pope Leo XIV has made AI governance a priority. The Holy See's moral authority transcends the usual political divisions.

Our coalition includes direct connections to Pope Leo XIV's inner circle and top Vatican AI advisors. We're positioned to convene something unprecedented: a private, closed-door dialogue bringing together the "humanist" wing of our target influencers—those concerned about AI's threat to human dignity, meaningful work, and social cohesion—with Vatican leadership and sympathetic figures from the technology world.

This is the nucleus of what we call the humanist AI alliance: a coalition united not by techno-optimism or accelerationist ideology, but by the shared conviction that superintelligence development must serve human flourishing.

Imagine a private gathering where:

  • Vatican AI advisors present the Holy See's framework for AI governance

  • Key introducers with access to Vance, Bannon, and other "humanist" influencers share strategic intelligence

  • Sympathetic AI lab figures discuss internal dynamics and windows of opportunity

  • Coalition members refine convergence strategies in real-time

Such a gathering could catalyze alignment among influencers who share underlying values but haven't yet coordinated their efforts. Rome provides the neutral ground, the moral authority, and the discretion that such a convening requires.

This is a high-value, low-probability outcome—but our positioning makes it genuinely achievable. With dedicated staff to handle the intensive logistics and relationship management, we can pursue this track while simultaneously executing the broader campaign across all hubs.

The Campaign Architecture

Our 2026 campaign operates across four strategic hubs, with activities concentrated in three phases.

Phase 1: January–February (Foundation + First Push)

  • Rome/Vatican. Finalize funding. Deepen Vatican engagement. Publish Strategic Memo v3.0. Onboard new staff. Prepare materials for the American push.

  • Washington, DC. Intensive briefings with the national security establishment. Meetings with think tank partners. Outreach to Sacks and Kratsios staff. Activation of October tour relationships.

  • Mar-a-Lago Area. Private gatherings at the supporter's villa. One-to-one meetings with introducers to Trump's informal advisors. Network expansion through warm introductions.

  • Bay Area. Systematic follow-up with all 23 AI lab contacts from October. Warm introduction cultivation toward Amodei, Altman, and Hassabis. Advocacy aperitifs for coalition building. Coordination with AI governance researchers.

  • New Delhi AI Action Summit (Feb 19-20). Direct engagement with attending AI lab CEOs. Exploration of India as a potential diplomatic bridge. International networking.

Phase 2: March–April (Deepening + Catalyzing)

  • Rome/Vatican (Key Window) Private convenings with introducers and potentially influencers. Vatican engagement at the highest accessible level. Coalition strategy refinement based on February intelligence. Strategic Memo v3.5 publication.

  • Washington & Mar-a-Lago Converting introducer relationships into influencer access. Final positioning before the summit window. Media outreach for strategic placements.

Phase 3: May–December (Summit Response + Sustained Campaign)

Post-summit reassessment and strategy recalibration. Continued engagement across all hubs based on political evolution. Travel to Singapore and other venues as opportunities emerge. Sustained pressure through the critical 2026 window.

Engagement Projections by Hub (2026)

Bay Area

  • AI lab official meetings: 40+

  • AI safety researcher engagements: 25+

  • Tech investor/executive meetings: 15+

  • Advocacy gatherings: 4-6 events

Washington, DC

  • National security briefings: 25+

  • Think tank meetings: 15+

  • Congressional staff briefings: 10+

  • Administration staff outreach: 10+

Rome/Vatican

  • Vatican advisor meetings: 12+

  • Private coalition convenings: 3-5 events

  • Potential influencer gatherings: 1-2 events

  • Donor cultivation meetings: 15+

Mar-a-Lago Area

  • Introducer meetings: 20+

  • Private villa gatherings: 4-6 events

  • Network expansion contacts: 30+

New Delhi + Other

  • Summit engagements: 15+

  • International contacts: 20+

Our Network and the Main Locations of Influencers

Following our October 2025 Persuasion Tour in Washington, DC and the Bay Area, in Q1 2026, we’ll travel back to those same cities, as well as to the Mar-a-Lago area, the Vatican and Singapore to deepen our engagement with influencers and introducers to them.

Most of our 100+ members, advisors, and supporters are concentrated precisely where AI policy decisions are made:

  • Bay Area: AI safety and policy researchers at major labs, tech executives and investors from previous startup ventures, and speakers from security seminars at leading California universities.

  • Washington, DC / National Security: Former officials from a major US signals intelligence agency, connections to former directors of key cybersecurity directorates, ties to leading defense think tanks that have studied AI governance, a former highest-ranking US cyber diplomat, and networks from CIA-linked cybersecurity incubators.

  • Rome/Vatican: Vatican representatives, connections to Pope Leo XIV's inner circle, engagement with global south nations and Chinese religious leaders.

  • Mar-a-Lago Area: A big supporter and long-time acquaintance has deep connections and suitable villa advocacy meeting