Our Charter

Public Benefit Charter

To advance and protect System’s purpose, System Inc. is incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation. Our charter, copied below, explicitly codifies our commitment to open data and open science and our values of inclusion, rationality, impact, openness, and humility.

The specific public benefit to be promoted by the Corporation is to: relate everything, to help the world see and solve anything, as a system.

To deliver this public benefit, we will:

  • Maintain a free, open, and collaborative knowledge base of the world’s systems, hosted at System.com, that is designed to help people understand how all things in the world are statistically related.

  • Maintain free and open access to content shared by users on System.com.

  • Share the statistical metadata on System.com in an open and interoperable format, and actively support open data and open science.

  • Uphold strict user data privacy and never sell user data to any third party.

  • Release features to the general public only after they have undergone an internal review of their potential unintended consequences.

  • Promote and celebrate diversity and inclusion in our hiring and employment policies and practices at all levels of our company.

  • Promote the scientific method and the values of scientific thinking.

  • Support education and outreach initiatives to promote systems literacy in society, especially in communities that need it the most.

  • Prioritize using the profits we make from enterprise licenses of our software to run System.com and invest in R&D to sustain the income needed to run System.com. We will then prioritize providing a reasonable return on risk to our employees and investors.

  • Deliver a benefit statement annually that will measure the results of our efforts to promote these public benefits.

REPORT

2023 Public Benefit Report

REPORT

2024 Public Benefit Report

Why System?

For much of history, the world has been clustered into silos. Disciplines, departments, functions, ministries, parties, countries, genders… We gave these silos labels. And then we organized information, allocated resources, and grouped people based on those labels.

It turns out the world isn’t so simple. In recent years, we’ve started to appreciate that it is complex and interdependent. And increasingly so. Beneath the surface, the world is a system — made of endlessly interacting, flowing, dependent parts. And these myriad relationships give rise to the complexity we now observe and experience all around us, perhaps most notably in the effects of COVID-19 and climate change. This is equally true in business today — from supply chains to user behavior to new markets.

Against rising complexity, it is no wonder many silos are beginning to crack. Organizing the world’s information into silos no longer reflects our best understanding of the world. And it limits our abilities to reliably predict outcomes, make decisions, mitigate risks — and improve the state of the world.

We believe that it is time to evolve the way we organize knowledge and data — from silos to systems. So we created System. Our mission is to relate everything, to help the world see and solve anything, as a system.

We are architecting a new kind of values-driven technology company that builds software with purpose. System Inc. is a Public Benefit Corporation. You can read our promises to our employees, users, customers, investors, and to society in our charter.

Charter

Public Benefit Charter

To advance and protect System’s purpose, System Inc. is incorporated as a Public Benefit Corporation. Our charter, copied below, explicitly codifies our commitment to open data and open science and our values of inclusion, rationality, impact, openness, and humility.

The specific public benefit to be promoted by the Corporation 
is to: relate everything, to help the world see and solve anything, as a system.

To deliver this public benefit, we will:

  • Maintain a free, open, and collaborative knowledge base of the world’s systems, hosted at System.com, that is designed to help people understand how all things in the world are statistically related.

  • Maintain free and open access to content shared by users on System.com.

  • Share the statistical metadata on System.com in an open and interoperable format, and actively support open data and open science.

  • Uphold strict user data privacy and never sell user data to any third party.

  • Release features to the general public only after they have undergone an internal review of their potential unintended consequences.

  • Promote and celebrate diversity and inclusion in our hiring and employment policies and practices at all levels of our company.

  • Promote the scientific method and the values of scientific thinking.

  • Support education and outreach initiatives to promote systems literacy in society, especially in communities that need it the most.

  • Prioritize using the profits we make from enterprise licenses of our software to run System.com and invest in R&D to sustain the income needed to run System.com. We will then prioritize providing a reasonable return on risk to our employees and investors.

  • Deliver a benefit statement annually that will measure the results of our efforts to promote these public benefits.

REPORT

2024 Public Benefit Report

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