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Where are we truly going?
Not just as a people within this country — but as humanity? I’ve been asking that question since I was a teen. It began as restlessness. Now it has become a body of work.
— Excell Jonathan Bills
My name is Excell Jonathan Bills. Writer, analyst, and — I’ll own it — self-proclaimed visionary.
The human condition is shifting in ways that are genuinely historic — economically, geopolitically, financially — and most of us are trying to make sense of it through a media apparatus designed to keep us reactive, afraid, and dependent on someone else’s interpretation. That’s the gap I work in.
I’m here to help you understand what is actually happening — to cut through the hysteria, the manufactured outrage, the media flare — and arrive at something more useful: perspective. Not mine handed to you, but the tools and the analysis to build your own.
Because here’s the honest problem: with this many competing forces — interests on every side, pressures from within and without — how does anyone actually arrive at the assumption of truth?
That’s what we’re here to find out. Together. One study, one creation at a time.
The Build
This started as a newsletter and a set of ideas. It’s now becoming something larger.
Phase I — The Intelligence Desk
Active Now
Essays, a premium newsletter, and direct advisory for the founders, investors, creators, and citizens who want to think more clearly about power and capital. This is where it begins.
Phase II — The Field
In Development
Taking the work off the desk and into the world — on-location reporting and primary source material that tests what the research says against what’s actually happening on the ground.
Phase III — The Platform
Coming Soon
A home for independent creators who deserve better infrastructure. A curated space built on the same principles as the work: rigor, independence, and ownership.
Phase IV — The Foundation
Coming Soon
The payment rails, the contract tools, and the financial infrastructure that independent creators have always needed and never had. The rails, built.
This will not only be your ground of truth through these trying times — but a broadcast and a foundation for the creative future of the everyday individual, and the means to control that future.
The Intelligence Desk
Read what the headlines don’t give you.
A free weekly dispatch on capital, power, and the systems behind them — plus first access to the reports and the book.