Public Benefit Charter.
exp² PBC is a Delaware Public Benefit Corporation. As such, the company is legally required to operate consistent with a specific public benefit purpose, alongside its general corporate purposes. The charter below is the public benefit purpose under which the company was incorporated.
The advancement of memory and cognitive science research, with particular emphasis on the development of human-centered AI architectures that respect human agency, support cognitive wellbeing across the lifespan, and serve users, institutions, and society without becoming surveillance infrastructure.
— Public Benefit Charter, exp² PBC, April 2026
What this means in practice.
A Public Benefit Corporation, unlike a standard Delaware C-corp, owes a fiduciary duty not only to its shareholders but also to the public benefit it has named in its charter. This duty is enforceable. It changes the calculus of every product decision, fundraising conversation, and strategic pivot the company makes.
For exp², the practical consequences are concrete. Memory architecture is a domain where the prevailing economic model is surveillance — the more a system knows about a person, the more valuable that person becomes as a data asset. The charter above explicitly forecloses this path. We are not allowed to become surveillance infrastructure, even if it would be profitable. The legal commitment binds us where market pressure alone might not.
The charter also names research as the primary commitment, with AI architecture as the focus within that research. This ordering is deliberate. It signals that exp² is a research-forward company building technology — not a technology company that occasionally publishes papers. The corpus of work coming from exp² Research extends across cognitive science, memory consolidation, neurodegeneration, and the structural mathematics that connects them.
And the charter binds us to cognitive wellbeing across the lifespan. This phrasing was chosen carefully. It extends the company's responsibility from healthy adults to children, the elderly, and people experiencing cognitive decline. It is the language that lets the research arm work legitimately on Alzheimer's disease, ALS, and other domains where memory is at stake — and the language that obligates the product arm to consider users whose memory does not work the way most software assumes.
The structural commitment.
We are aware that mission charters are easy to write and difficult to honor. The test is not what a company says on its incorporation documents but what it refuses when refusing is costly. We have tried to write a charter that names specific refusals — not "do good" but do not become surveillance infrastructure; not "be human-centered" but respect human agency; not "research" but cognitive wellbeing across the lifespan.
Each clause is meant to bind a future decision the company has not yet faced.
Contact.
exp² PBC
Moses Pan, Founder
contact@exp2.io
Los Angeles, California
Public Benefit Charter · exp² PBC · April 2026