Recent analysis across brands, sectors, and cultural systems

A selection of Fame Index research, combining structured frameworks with applied analysis across real-world systems.

This analysis shows how trust now operates across institutional, platform, and behavioural layers — and why brands are increasingly judged by how their systems perform, not what they say.
Research

This analysis shows how trust now operates across institutional, platform, and behavioural layers — and why brands are increasingly judged by how their systems perform, not what they say.

This analysis shows how supermarkets operate as Ground and Play systems — organizing necessity, identity, and routine — and why the strongest brands convert consumption into repeatable behavioral control.
Research

This analysis shows how supermarkets operate as Ground and Play systems — organizing necessity, identity, and routine — and why the strongest brands convert consumption into repeatable behavioral control.

The Hidden Behavioral Infrastructure of 2026
Research

The Hidden Behavioral Infrastructure of 2026

Why brands, sports leagues and celebrities are no longer trading attention, but exchanging control over culture.
Research

Why brands, sports leagues and celebrities are no longer trading attention, but exchanging control over culture.

Travel no longer behaves as horizontal competition.
Research

Travel no longer behaves as horizontal competition.

Payments no longer operates as a single branded system.
Authority has split across interface, financing, infrastructure, and settlement layers — each shaping different parts of the decision process.
This analysis maps how control, memory, and dependence are now distributed across the stack.
Research

Payments no longer operates as a single branded system. Authority has split across interface, financing, infrastructure, and settlement layers — each shaping different parts of the decision process. This analysis maps how control, memory, and dependence are now distributed across the stack.