The question is who will have access to the American Dream for the next generation.
For two and a half centuries, this country has been arguing about who holds power, who benefits, and what we owe one another. That argument has produced extraordinary wealth and distributed it narrowly. Our generation is inheriting the hardest version of the argument yet — about Social Security and healthcare in an aging society, the future of work in an economy driven by AI and automation, and whether ownership and the American Dream are still attainable to ordinary people.
SPCC.1 is an R&D firm for economic democracy. We work with industry partners, founders, and educators to test the guiding principles of the Shared Prosperity Model in real-world settings — in the places where the next economy is actually being built.
We work in specific industries on inclusive economic development — designing the workforce pipelines, ownership pathways, and community engagement architecture that determine whether major industrial investment produces broad-based prosperity or extraction.
We work with entrepreneurs and founders navigating the inflection points where wealth-building actually happens — particularly the structural transition from founder-centric operations to transferable enterprise value.
We work with educators and institutional leaders focused on democratic renewal. We develop curriculum, facilitate cohorts, and co-design new models for economic literacy, civic engagement, and economic democracy — because political agency without economic understanding is fragile.
The American economy is at an inflection point. The post-war model of wages plus redistribution stabilized the middle class for seventy years and is now structurally exhausted. Asset growth outpaces wage growth. Concentrated wealth erodes consumer demand. AI is accelerating the imbalance rather than reversing it. The argument our firm is testing is that broad-based ownership — embedded into the structure of economic activity before extraction, not redistributed after the fact — is the missing architecture. This is the work of predistribution: building the next economy so that prosperity compounds across the people who generate it, rather than concentrating among those who own the platforms that capture it.
We are not building this alone. The guiding principles are being tested in the real world with the partners, founders, and educators who already see what is broken in the existing model and are looking for the architecture to build something different.
If that is the work you are doing, contact us at alfredo@spcc.one.
