Preserve Companies' Operational Histories

Project Lazarus proposes buying and permanently storing the full, unfiltered operational histories of defunct or inactive companies so researchers, regulators, and the public can study how firms actually behaved and failed. Making these corporate archives public could expose hidden practices, improve regulatory design, and supply datasets for historical and economic research. — If scaled, corporate operational archives would shift how we do accountability, corporate history, and policy evaluation by turning opaque firm practices into public evidence.