Financial Strategy & Analysis Inspired by Nature

We connect the dots across the interconnected Pillars of Power – Technology, Energy, & Money – to Understand the Past. Empower the Present. Inspire the Future.

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Who we are

Complex problem solvers & foundational truth-seekers

AquaVis Advisors is a biomimicry-inspired research and advisory firm — mapping the flows of Technology, Energy, and Money: the Pillars of Power shaping the world and what comes next.

First-Principles Foundation, Cross-Discipline Knowledge, Primary Focus Areas

First-Principles Foundation

First-Principles Foundation

We build up our understanding of systems from first principles — starting with the building-blocks to construct foundational knowledge. Our Nature-designed approach enables clear, independent thinking and our data-driven processes help remove biases

Cross-Discipline Knowledge

Cross-Discipline Knowledge

We are students of history and cycles, observers of the world and markets, and experts in Technology (notably Semiconductors) and Investing. We harness our collective experience to create a framework that leverages the principles of Nature and the power of Machine Learning to design strategies – continuously tested and refined using data science

Primary Focus Areas

Primary Focus Areas

Our themes — and thus our strategies — revolve around the three major Pillars of Power that have been consistent across history: Technology, Energy, & Money

WHAT WE DO

Built to Simplify

We publish content and build intuitive strategies that proactively prepare for, directly capitalize on, and ultimately help shape the potential paths ahead

Products

Content

Content

We provide tools and content that simplify complicated topics and connect disparate dots

Strategies

Strategies

Just as the Pillars help order your mind and direct your attention, they also help you harness your money — this foundational framework ‘doubles’ as a naturally balanced portfolio. Cascade and Confluence are its two applications.

Services

Services

We offer advisory services ranging from fund management to strategic consulting

Content

Foundations

Foundations

The Source

Essential Guides. Core Frameworks. Guiding Principles.

Start here to understand the AquaVis worldview and the mental models used to map the System and its flows.

Insights

Insights

Surface Flow

One Visual. One Signal. One Implication.

Quick insights that reveal the hidden currents beneath the surface.

Newsletters

Newsletters

Main Current

Applied Analysis. Deeper Context. Connected Systems.

Newsletters that trace the flows shaping the System through the Pillars of Power.

Whitepapers, Companions

Whitepapers

Whitepapers

Deep Channel

Foundational Frameworks. Enduring Research. Nature Analogs.

Evergreen whitepapers that map the System through the AquaVis nature-inspired lens.

Companions

Companions

The Eddy

Visual Maps. Podcast Episodes. Video Walkthroughs.

Companion multimedia materials that revisit, extend, and explore the core written content.

The Pillars of Power Portfolio

If you know where to focus your attention — the 3 Pillars of Power — it becomes much easier to connect the dots and recognize the extremes. Not day-trading, just re-balancing the PoP portfolio at those extremes.

CASCADE

CASCADE

Systematic Liquidity

  • Focused exclusively on the Money pillar, notably the flows of Money (Liquidity) – the potential and active energy in the financial system

  • Universe includes all liquid investable assets

  • Content methodically lays out the system backdrop, the cycle, and how our process filters down to targeted opportunities

  • Portfolio systematically selects the fastest horse (i.e., asset with the highest potential return) at each point in the liquidity cycle – targeting absolute, long-term returns

CONFLUENCE

CONFLUENCE

Balanced Pillars of Power

  • Focused on the interconnected pillars of geostrategic Power – Technology, Energy, & Money – which are at a generational inflection point in history

  • Universe includes companies across all three pillars

  • Content connects highly important, and often seemingly disparate dots

  • Portfolio naturally balances exposure across the self-reinforcing pillars, seeking to accelerate progress and capitalize on chaos – targeting absolute, long-term returns

WHY WE DO IT

To prepare for & capitalize on the chaos

backdrop

They Complicate to Control. We Simplify to Empower.

  • We are at an inflection point — where the US is systematically ending the old System, and building the New System
  • As students of history, we’ve seen these cycle convergences before (often called 4th Turnings)
  • During these volatile, tumultuous periods of time it is more important than ever to understand history and connect the dots, so you are prepared
  • With disruption and pain (it’s Winter), massive opportunities emerge (Spring will come) for the aware
  • The Quiet War began 30+ years ago — the subversion of the old System, re-directing flows toward adversaries away from allies
  • In any Natural System that is ‘allowed’ to flow, the natural movement is toward Balance — and the Peaceful Re-Balancing is in motion
  • One does not simply build a New System and keep using old stuff. The legacy infrastructure is out, the incumbents are no longer safe
  • We’ve built up a framework to prepare for and capitalize on this disruption
  • Our primary focus is on helping you understand the interconnected, evolving Pillars of Power, so you can make more informed investment and time decisions
How We Do it

Designed with the principles of Nature

Using Nature as a guide and cross-discipline knowledge as a framework, we build up our understanding of these systems from first principles — starting with the building-blocks to construct foundational knowledge

We leverage our unique and deep expertise — across Investing, Semiconductors, Data Science — and apply it to our self-created Pillars of Power to develop and design strategies

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