Manifesto · September 2026

Why this company exists.

Every company is already obeying a law it has never measured. Revenue is the mass. Everything else, cost, capacity, cash, complexity, margin, scales with it at an exponent nobody wrote down. When the exponents are right, growth compounds. When they are wrong, the company becomes an elephant-sized mouse: bigger every year and weaker per gram, and no dashboard says why.

The software a company runs on was built to record what it does, not to ask what it should become. The CRM knows the deal closed. Accounting knows the invoice went out. Nobody knows whether that work bent the exponents toward the business the owner wants or away from it, because nobody was measuring, and nobody was standing at the door when the commitment was made.

Allometry stands at the door. It measures the exponents from executed work, decides against them, and enforces the decision at the moment the company commits: a quote, an order, a hire, a location, an acquisition. Then it reconciles what happened with what was expected and gets better. Every commitment becomes a small, recorded vote on the shape of the company. Over enough votes, the company can see itself, choose what it should become, and make the change with evidence instead of decks.

The law. Y = a·Mb. In biology a trait scales with body mass at an exponent, and an organism is not a size but a set of exponents. A business obeys the same law. Every business has a shape. The shape is its exponents.
The floor. p ≥ (1 + f) × c(t), enforced at the moment of commitment. Price against what the work truly costs today, not what the price book said in January. A business that enforces the inequality at commitment cannot quietly leak.
The target. Choose p to move V toward V*, the value of the business the owner is pricing toward. The price of the unit is derived from the value of the whole organism. That is what allometric means.
The loop. Read the company continuously. Measure its shape. Set the objective. Diagnose what breaks next. Explore what it could become. Choose one move. Authorize it. Execute it. Reconcile what happened. Learn.

That is the whole thesis. The first door into it is a margin floor on quotes for the operators whose revenue ships on trucks, because that is where the leak is largest and the evidence arrives fastest. The rest is earned, one reconciled outcome at a time.

See the business. Shape what comes next. Make the change.

— Taylor GendronFounder, Allometry · Montréal | New York · taylor@allometry.com

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