AUGMNT : LIMINAL • ATYPIQ STRATEGY
A TECHNOLOGY FOR THE COGNITIVE ECONOMY
WE HELP ORGANIZATIONS BUILD AN EXPLICIT COGNITIVE BASE
Human Cognition meets Artificial Cognition
We are moving into a world with two forms of cognition. Human. And artificial. Most of what is being proposed right now works with the symptoms of that transition. We work where the two meet — building the conditions under which both serve human sovereignty rather than quietly eroding it.
THESIS
AI has introduced something that has no precedent in organizational history. For the first time, a form of cognition operates independently of any human being — representing, reasoning, deciding, executing. This is not a faster tool. It is a parallel cognitive process.
Most organizations are responding to this as a technology question. Which tools to adopt. Which workflows to automate. Which roles to protect. That is the wrong question. The real question is whether the organization’s own cognition — the knowledge, judgment, language, and meaning that make it what it is — is explicit enough to govern what it now delegates. Because can it only extend what it can receive. Knowledge, judgment, language, and context must exist before they can be delegated.
AI depends on human meaning, judgment, and context to be useful. Organizations that have not built their cognitive base are not prepared for the AI era.
AUGMNT builds that base. The structure, the language, the schema, the semantic — the organizational condition that makes the meeting of Human and Artificial Cognition deliberate, governed, and beneficial.
This is not consulting. It is cognitive infrastructure. The condition that must exist before anything else works.
Cognition matters wherever organizations must understand, decide, adapt, and act.
WE WORK WHERE COGNITION MATTERS
THE FOUNDER
Chris Royer is the founder of AUGMNT. His background spans law, financial and estate planning, securities brokerage, investor relations, trading, international trade, strategic consulting, and business operations and management. This cross-domain practice gives him a unique systems perspective on organizations and their evolution through time.
FORMAL & SPECIALIZED EDUCATION
Undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Faculty of Law of the Université de Montréal. Held securities and life insurance representative licenses in Canada.
CONTINUING EDUCATION
Specialization/Certification | Futures Thinking – Institute For The Future (IFTF) | Social Entrepreneurship – Copenhagen Business School | Beyond Silicon Valley: Growing Entrepreneurship in Transitioning Economies – Case Western University | New Models of Business in Society – University of Virginia, Darden School of Business | Age of Sustainability, An Introduction – Columbia University (with Jeffrey Sachs) | Circular Economy, An Introduction – TU Delft and Macarthur Foundation | Entrepreneurship: Financing and Profitability – Wharton Business School | Greening the Economies: Sustainable cities – Lund University | Financing and Investing in Infrastructure – Bocconi University | Impact Investing – Essec Paris | Fundamentals of Global Energy Business – University of Colorado | Financial Markets – Yale University | Introduction to Fintech – University of Hong-Kong
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AUGMNT works with organizations that sense the transition is real and are ready to build the condition before they need it.
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