The L'Varian Rub

Most consultants look at your books (financials) or your mood (culture surveys). We look at your Structure. An Ontological Audit measures the "thermodynamic integrity" of your organization. We ask: Does this department actually exist, or is it just a "Zombie Spring"—a hollow shell consuming energy without producing output? We map the flow of information to see if your organization is a solid asset or a fragile simulation. 

Why not? 

No, seriously though because business metaphors ("pivot," "synergy," "flywheel") are imprecise. Physics is law. Your organization is a system converting energy (Capital/Effort) into order (Product/Value). If you are burning cash, that is Entropy. If your teams are fighting, that is Friction. By treating your company as a physical system, we can stop guessing and start calculating exactly where the energy is leaking. 

 No. Consultants sell advice. We sell Measurement. We do not come in to facilitate workshops or hold hands. We come in like structural engineers. We test the load-bearing walls of your strategy. If the math says the bridge will collapse under the weight of your scaling plan, we will tell you. We don't offer "strategic ambiguity"; we offer "auditable reality." 

 The Banana Limit is a specific geometric threshold derived from L'Varian topology. In business terms, it is the point where your Growth (how fast you are adding people/revenue) outpaces your Structure (your internal decision-making tree). If you cross the Banana Limit, you enter "Systemic Decoherence"—efficiency drops, burnout spikes, and quality creates noise. We calculate your specific limit and tell you when to stop growing and start pruning. 

Most corporate AI strategies are "Hallucination Engines"—generating massive amounts of text/code with zero provenance. We implement L'Varian Provenance Tracking. We distinguish between "Gold" (high-coherence, verified IP that you own) and "Sludge" (probabilistic noise copied from the internet). We turn your AI from a legal liability into a precision asset. 

We work with Complexity.

• For Startups: We are usually brought in at Series B/C, when the "move fast and break things" culture has started breaking the wrong things (people, product integrity).
• For Enterprises: We are brought in to find the "Vampires"—the legacy units that look busy but are actually dead. Size doesn't matter; the density of the mess does.

 You get a Coherence Report. While we can provide executive summaries, our primary deliverable is an Auditable Artefact. This might be a map of your organization's friction points, a "Coherence-Debt" balance sheet, or a restructuring of your data pipeline. We deliver data that allows you to make decisions based on law, not opinion. 

That being said, we are enjoying Google's NotebookLM and will be adding the interesting one, with low substrate artifacts, from our general research pool into the Banana Vault's Living Flesh for everyone to take what nourishes.

 We are priced as Specialists, not generalists.

• Audits are fixed-price engagements (Scope x Complexity).
• Partnerships are retainer-based for access to the Institute’s Senior Fellows.
• Ventures are equity-based.
• Note: Friction costs you more than we do. If we stop you from driving a $50M project off a cliff, our fee is a rounding error.

You can invest in the Output. The L'Var Institute incubates technologies (LiquidOS, HCP, etc.). Through The Asherah Project (our commercial arm), we spin these out as investable vehicles. You can put capital into specific technology flows or into the general "IP Reactor" fund. Contact us for the prospectus. 

Because that is where the truth is. Hamlet said, "Ay, there’s the rub." It’s the snag, the catch, the point of friction. Most firms try to hide the rub from you to keep you happy. We find the rub, measure it, and put it on the table. We don't sell smooth lies.