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I am an entrepreneur and operator working in energy and infrastructure. I was the Founder and CTO of Noya, a climate technology company that raised $23 million and operated out of San Francisco, and I am now building an energy company in Venezuela. My work involves making capital allocation and system design decisions under real uncertainty—fuel costs, policy shifts, grid reliability, and geopolitical factors all directly affect outcomes. In practice, these decisions are made without a clean, continuously updated signal about where conditions are actually heading.
I saw this failure clearly in the 2024–2025 climate technology cycle. Many teams, including ones I worked closely with, operated under the assumption that conditions would revert and improve. That assumption drove continued investment into visible, capital-intensive systems that signaled scale, instead of shifting into more resilient, lower-burn operating modes. When the recovery did not materialize, those decisions became liabilities. This was not just bad judgment—it was a lack of signal. There was no mechanism to aggregate dispersed information and challenge shared assumptions in real time, so narrative and momentum took over.
Event contracts provide that missing mechanism. By tying outcomes to prices, they aggregate dispersed knowledge into a single probability that updates continuously. That price is not abstract—it is directly usable in operational decision-making. It allows operators to calibrate risk, adjust system design, and allocate capital with a clearer view of expected conditions. In domains like energy and infrastructure, where forward-looking information is often fragmented or unavailable, this function is not speculative—it is missing infrastructure. From an operator’s perspective, markets built to generate high-quality information behave differently from those built primarily for trading activity, and treating them as identical risks limiting the development of tools that improve real-world decision-making.
