About Follow the Tech
Technology is reshaping every institution that governs modern life — law, markets, democracy, and the distribution of opportunity itself. The decisions being made right now about how AI is owned, regulated, and deployed will determine who benefits from the most significant productivity shift in human history.
Most of those decisions are being made by a small number of people with concentrated interests. Most of the research informing those decisions is funded by the same.
Follow the Tech exists to change that.
We produce independent research and analysis on the legal and policy questions that matter most in the current technology transition: AI governance, patent doctrine, quantum computing policy, and the regulatory frameworks — or absence of them — that shape all three. We track litigation, legislation, and the money behind both. And we publish what we find, openly, for anyone who wants to understand what is actually happening and why.
We are not neutral. We take positions based on evidence and public interest analysis. But we are rigorous — our work engages primary sources, current doctrine, and the strongest available counterarguments.
The name is not a metaphor. We follow the money because the money explains the technology. We follow the votes because the votes reveal who the technology actually serves. We follow the tech because that's where the power is moving.
Our Mission
The Center for Technology and Public Interest produces independent research, analysis, and advocacy on AI, patent law, quantum computing, and technology policy. Our mission is to ensure that the legal and regulatory frameworks governing transformative technology serve the many, not the few — and that the public has the information needed to hold decision-makers accountable.
The Organization
The Center for Technology and Public Interest is a nonprofit organization focused on the intersection of law, technology, and public accountability. Through original research, policy analysis, litigation tracking, and legislative monitoring, CTPI works to ensure that the structural decisions being made about AI, quantum computing, and emerging technology reflect the public interest rather than concentrated private ones. CTPI is committed to radical transparency: all funding sources and political connections are disclosed publicly.