{
  "id": "ai-power-rankings-1.0.0",
  "locked_on": "2026-09-18",
  "name": "exmxc AI Power Index — Four Forces",
  "forces": [
    "compute",
    "interface",
    "alignment",
    "energy"
  ],
  "formula": "0.5 * max(forces) + 0.5 * mean(forces)",
  "score_step": 5,
  "minimum": 0,
  "maximum": 100,
  "display_decimals": 1,
  "rounding": "half-up",
  "tie_break": [
    "unrounded score descending",
    "force vector sorted descending, lexicographic descending",
    "company name case-insensitive alphabetical ascending"
  ],
  "anchors": {
    "0": "No material independent control",
    "25": "Limited control; substantial dependence",
    "50": "Meaningful control with credible substitutes",
    "75": "Major control position difficult to replace",
    "100": "Defining global bottleneck or platform position"
  },
  "definitions": {
    "compute": "Control over the infrastructure and consequential bottlenecks needed to train and run AI.",
    "interface": "Control over where people and institutions encounter AI, express intent, and act.",
    "alignment": "Authority and capacity to govern what AI may do: permissions, containment, monitoring, interruption, accountability, and recovery.",
    "energy": "Control over electricity, continuity, location, and enabling power infrastructure."
  },
  "framework_url": "https://www.exmxc.ai/frameworks/four-forces-of-ai-power",
  "canonical_url": "https://www.exmxc.ai/ai-power-index-methodology",
  "assessment_type": "exmxc editorial judgment",
  "cadence": "monthly",
  "years": [
    2026,
    2027,
    2030
  ],
  "history_policy": "Append immutable editions; corrections use a new edition with supersedes and correction_reason. Never rewrite earlier scores or forecasts. Keep named target years; freeze completed-year assessments rather than rolling them forward.",
  "company_policy": "Consolidate controlled subsidiaries. Do not assign a partner’s assets to the company. Preserve the 50-company baseline cohort; document any subsequently authorized membership change separately.",
  "forecast_policy": "Central editorial forecast from current research. Announced capacity is prospective. Scores are neither probabilities nor measured market shares."
}