The Economic World Model.

Run the world. Before you run it.

Built by pioneers in formal verification, distributed systems, and economic systems. A.M. Turing Award OSDI Best Paper Cambridge, MA Harvard Cambridge, MA MIT Singapore NUS New York Columbia

The economy is the only critical system humanity deploys
without simulation.
Loka is building the Economic World Model —
a behaviorally simulated, causally constrained, and formally verified system for testing decisions before they move nations, markets, and billions of lives.
Team

The people behind
Loka Labs.

Joseph Sifakis

Founding Scientist · Turing Award

Founder of model checking. Pioneered proving complex systems correct before they run — chips, aircraft, mission-critical infrastructure. First commercial engagement applying formal verification to economic systems.

Lora Jiang

Co-founder, CEO · Parsons, Harvard

Led Taiko Labs' $1.2B Series A (Lightspeed Faction lead). Built frontier capital systems and scaled emerging technologies globally. Backed by Sequoia China, Tencent, BAI.

Akasha Zhu

Co-founder, President · Tsinghua, MIT

12 patents. Founder of Hetu (distributed systems), Vinci (consumer hardware), and Tongxue (social network). Early advocate of economic simulation infrastructure.

Jialin Li

Co-founder, CTO · NUS Assistant Professor

Distributed systems researcher. OSDI / NSDI Best Paper. Co-founded Hetu with Akasha — they have shipped together before. Builds the systems that make the impossible run at scale.

Felix Oberholzer-Gee

Founding Strategist · Harvard Business School

Strategy and economics scholar at Harvard Business School. Advises on the market design and institutional adoption of large-scale simulation infrastructure.

Architecture · four layers

A modular, composable stack.

From raw data to real decisions — one continuous, causal pipeline.

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Decision Intelligence

Generate, evaluate, and recommend actions

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  • Scenario Generation
  • Policy Optimization
  • Counterfactual Analysis
  • Decision Recommendation

Economic Simulation Engine

Simulate how the world evolves

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  • Behavioral Agents
  • Institution Dynamics
  • Market Dynamics
  • Shock Propagation
  • Scenario Execution

Economic World Model

A structured, causal representation of the economy

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  • Ontology & Relations
  • Behavior Models
  • Causal Structure
  • Institution Models
  • Constraints & Rules

Data Foundation

Diverse, high-quality, and continuously updated

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  • Time-Series Data
  • Documents & Reports
  • Structured Data
  • Real-time Events
  • APIs & External Data
Research

Papers, essays,
and public briefings.

Grounded in a Turing Award lineage in formal verification and systems research published at OSDI, SOSP, and SIGCOMM — from verification foundations to the empirical calibration of economic worlds.

The error is public,
timestamped,
and verifiable by anyone.

Beyond Truth Calibration
We do not depend on synthetic data. Anchored on public macroeconomic data and decades of controlled behavioral economics research (Kahneman, Thaler).

Live Public Verification
Taylor Swift Eras Tour & 2026 FIFA World Cup. Pre-event economic impact prediction vs real verified data. Not a client testimonial; an accuracy test anyone can check.

Built on

Formal Verification (Turing Award)
& Distributed AI at Scale (NSDI/OSDI Best Paper).

Economic simulation for
decisions that move worlds.

Loka Labs helps governments, financial institutions, and global event operators stress-test policies, markets, and large-scale events before they unfold in the real world.

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