Recent analysis across brands, sectors, and cultural systems

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

Duolingo is not being mispriced as a language app.
It is being mispriced as software.
The market is evaluating feature substitution.
But the product operates as a global habit system — and behavioral infrastructure is far harder to replace than software.
Research

Duolingo is not being mispriced as a language app. It is being mispriced as software. The market is evaluating feature substitution. But the product operates as a global habit system — and behavioral infrastructure is far harder to replace than software.

Why the sector is not collapsing under moral pressure — but reorganising into structurally different systems with new forms of power and risk.
Research

Why the sector is not collapsing under moral pressure — but reorganising into structurally different systems with new forms of power and risk.

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.

UK grocery is no longer just a price war. It is a contest over which supermarkets govern money, time, trust, identity, and everyday household behavior.
Research

UK grocery is no longer just a price war. It is a contest over which supermarkets govern money, time, trust, identity, and everyday household behavior.

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.