01 / Economics
Markets, capital
& economic change
Examining credit, labor, and economic cycles to understand their implications for capital allocation and business decisions.
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Understanding change.
Advancing
what comes next.
Research and education at the intersection of economics, artificial intelligence, and frontier technology.
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Our purpose
Ideas that inform.
Research that
equips.
Hive Research Institute examines how economic forces and emerging technologies shape the decisions ahead.
Through articles, letters, white papers, and educational programs, we connect complex ideas to the practical questions facing investors, business leaders, and practitioners.
Our purpose is to make consequential developments easier to understand, evaluate, and apply.
Areas of inquiry
Where we focus
Markets, capital
02 / Artificial intelligence
Intelligence
in practice
Exploring AI systems, agent architectures, and human behavior modeling, with attention to how these technologies work in practice.
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Complex systems
& new possibilities
Investigating the connections among simulation, optimization, quantum methods, and emerging computational approaches.
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JP James
Chair, Hive Research Institute
JP James is an entrepreneur and applied AI practitioner whose work spans financial services, technology, and education.
He is Co-founder and Chairman of Peach Pilot AI and Hive Financial, and Chairman of Libreum International. His technical interests include simulation and optimization, human behavior modeling, hierarchical multi-agent systems, reinforcement learning, and quantum optimization.
Rollins College
Professor of Practice of AI
Crummer Business School
Crummer Business School
Georgia Institute of Technology
Lecturer since 2006
TI:GER and quantitative computational finance
TI:GER and quantitative computational finance
National War College
Senior Fellow since 2023
AI, quantum, simulation, and agent-based modeling
AI, quantum, simulation, and agent-based modeling
Biography & background
Operating experience
Peach Pilot AI: agentic engineering and modeling human behavior in financial services. Hive Financial: private credit and consumer lending using analytics and machine learning. Libreum International: consulting across capital markets, software, machine learning, and operations.
Education
Georgia Institute of Technology — Computer Science and Entrepreneurship, Class of 2001.
Executive education: Stanford Graduate School of Business, YPO, 2024–2026; University of Chicago Booth School of Business, YPO, 2023.
From the Institute
Selected work
The Hidden Depth of China's Deflationary Crisis: An Empirical Analysis
Rethinking AI Agent Architecture: A Case Study in Code Execution Over Protocol Abstraction
The Quantum-AI Convergence: My Journey Through Complex Systems
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