Houston's
Brain Capital,
Measured.
The durable skills that build a region's brain capital are learned in school and used at work. Now they can be identified in people's own words and measured the same way every year, from grade 3 to a first job.
Brains Are Infrastructure.
Brain capital is the fusion of healthy minds and adaptive skills. It powers innovation, resilience and growth, and it deserves investment as deliberate as roads or data centers.
Investing in brain capital is the smartest bet for our future.Harris Eyre, MD, PhD · Executive Director, Global Brain Economy Initiative · Rice University & UTMB
Global Brain Economy Initiative, globalbraineconomy.org · building on the World Economic Forum and McKinsey Health Institute report The Human Advantage: Stronger Brains in the Age of AI
Houston Is Building The Brain Economy.
Project Metis is making Houston/Galveston the epicenter of the emerging brain economy,
where brain health and cognitive skills, brain capital, drive growth and human potential.
What We'll MeasureEight Durable Skills.
One Common Language.
Durable Skills, Heard.
Agreement with trained human raters. Across eight skills, the model's level lands where a trained rater's does, on 77.3% of answers exactly and 98.0% within one level.
Forty people scored one live answer. 31 landed on the system's level. 39 were within one.
Every Skill Clears The Gate.
One Answer. Fourteen Paths.
From January, students across Tomball ISD answer out loud. Each is matched, by skill, to the Texas career clusters where those skills matter most. Here's one of them.
His Evidence
Texas CCMR Skills
Career Clusters
Workplace Years · bp sits on the Project Metis steering committeeThe Decision Desk.
Hiring for judgment under pressure.
Some days a desk loses $5 million. The best analysts are back at 6:00 a.m., trading well. That's composure under loss, and it never shows up on a résumé. A short spoken screener hears it before the first interview, and helps build desks with complementary skills.
A farmer comes in and he's talking about his daughter's quinceañera, and he's talking about the rain…In her own words, on reading what a market is about to do · simulated candidate
Their Values.
In Their Own Language.
Awty and St. John's have built these skills for decades.
They just don't call them durable skills.
We measure what they already promise families.
Sample ReportThe Awty Difference
Students who learn to see the world from somewhere else, measured against Houston peers.
countries and 40+ languages. Perspective-taking becomes proof of what makes Awty, Awty, and of what tuition buys.
Thirteen Years Of Character
Their precepts and principles, heard every year, as a growth line a board can read.
years in one sequence, from the first year to graduation. Their promise, with evidence behind it.
One Region.
Many Partners.
Project Metis is the hub, and the partnership is spreading across Houston: districts, independent schools and employers, with more to come. Impacter Pathway is the vehicle that carries the work to each of them.
Hear It
For Yourself.
Scan to try it live: answer a Texas CCMR prompt out loud and watch your answer read, skill by skill, rubric move by rubric move, all the way to the career clusters it reaches.
Josh ArnoldCo-Founder & Co-CEODanny ByunCo-Founder & Co-CEO