Chris McCoy

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Chris McCoy

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, a platform for connecting sports networks and moving money through them at scale. In 2014, Marc Andreessen recognized McCoy on his "50 Unknown Rockstars in Tech" list for thinking in networks, payments, and sports media. 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, Capital One, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries.

Since 2020, his governance system has managed $30 million in real economic decisions across 126 governors in 30 countries. Zero constitutional violations.

Every AI company deploying at scale right now is doing it without this framework.

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.

Trusted America is McCoy's comprehensive policy framework applying constitutional mathematics to American competitiveness. STORE and Trusted America are two sovereign implementations of the same constitutional mathematics, the way Delaware and California are two sovereign states operating under the same Constitution.

McCoy is the Founder and CEO of STORE Research Inc. in San Francisco and the second cousin three times removed of two-time Nobel laureate Linus Pauling (Chemistry 1954, Peace 1962).