Chris McCoy

Chris McCoy spent twenty years proving that the mathematics behind American democracy can govern artificial intelligence.

It started with YourSports in 2006, a platform for connecting sports networks and moving money through them. Solving that coordination problem led him to cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrency led him to the consensus mathematics. By 2014 he was studying the governance theory formally through Data4America. By 2017 that research became STORE Research Inc. and two US patents now cited by IBM, Mastercard International, and Capital One. These companies have cited STORE Research patents in their own patent filings. This is not an endorsement or partnership claim.

Since 2020, his governance system has managed $30 million in real decisions across 126 governors in 30+ countries with zero constitutional violations. And unlike every other technology platform ever built, it gets more democratic as it grows, not less. At 126 governors, constitutional coordination costs 210 times less than traditional democratic overhead. The math is why.

Every technology in history has done the same thing as it grew: concentrated power. More users meant more control for whoever owned the platform. Google. Anthropic. OpenAI. AWS. The bigger the network, the more it belonged to whoever built it. That is how networks work.

Alexander Hamilton figured out the exception in 1787. Any system where no single group controls more than a third of the votes gets harder to capture as it grows, not easier. The more people participate, the more stable it becomes. He built that rule into the American Constitution. It held for 238 years.

In 1982, a computer scientist named Leslie Lamport proved the same thing mathematically for computer networks, working from entirely different first principles. Neither man knew the other existed. Chris McCoy connected them in 2017. And then he built the first AI system in history where growth makes it more democratic, not less.

The work started long before 2017. In 2006, McCoy founded YourSports. In 2014, Marc Andreessen recognized McCoy on his "50 Unknown Rockstars in Tech" list for thinking in networks, payments, and sports media. By 2017 that research became STORE Research Inc. and two US patents now cited by IBM, Mastercard International, Capital One, Ant Group, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. These companies have cited STORE Research patents in their own patent filings. This is not an endorsement or partnership claim.

He did not figure this out in a classroom. He figured it out by doing it. As National DECA President he governed 165,000 students using the same rules before he ever read the academic papers proving those rules were mathematically correct. The practice came first. The proof confirmed it.

Chris McCoy is the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc. and the developer of constitutional mathematics, the first mathematical framework for democratic AI governance entering public peer review.

His intellectual contribution: recognizing that the same mathematical boundary - no faction holding more than one-third, agreement requiring at least two-thirds - appears independently across five fields over two centuries. Hamilton encoded it into the U.S. Constitution in 1787. Nash proved the equilibrium conditions for durable cooperation in 1950. The Supreme Court re-derived the equal-weight principle in Reynolds v. Sims in 1964. Friedman, and later Fudenberg and Maskin, proved the conditions under which cooperation holds over repeated interaction. Lamport proved the same threshold was mathematically necessary for distributed computer agreement under adversarial conditions in 1982. None of the five cited the others.

McCoy connected them in 2017. He calls the result the Hamilton-Lamport Convergence. As co-inventor of the BlockFinBFT consensus algorithm (US 11,080,691 B2, US 12,165,142 B2), McCoy designed the Washington Economic Consensus and mDemocracy principles enabling computing infrastructure to be collectively owned and democratically governed.

STORE Research is McCoy's infrastructure layer. Data4America is his policy layer. McCoy Ventures is his investment layer. All three run on the same constitutional mathematics.