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Dissensus Ltd: the lab has a legal shape

Dissensus is incorporated as a private limited company in England and Wales; the research stays open.

Dissensus is now Dissensus Ltd, a private limited company registered in England and Wales, Companies House no. 17309927. The research programme came first; the company exists so the lab can hold grants, sign contracts, and stand as a counterparty in collaborations — none of which an individual researcher with a website can do cleanly.

What changes is the paperwork. Funders and academic partners now have an entity to deal with, commercial friction-analysis work has a company behind it, and the Adversarial Systems & Complexity Research Initiative (ASCRI) continues as the research programme, carried out through the company and published here.

What does not change is the research. Output stays open: papers deposited on Zenodo with permanent identifiers, CC-BY licensing by default, code released under MIT or Apache licences. The independence is the point of the structure — the company exists to protect it, not to dilute it — and the governance rules we hold ourselves to are written down in the charter, in public, where they can embarrass us if we break them.

Collaboration proposals to research@dissensus.ai.