New Companies
Ventures built around unusual technical leads, neglected data, and unexplored research trajectories.
Incubator / Applied Research / NYC
Future
Folklore
Future Folklore treats UAP, anomalous materials, folklore, and other frontier records as sources of engineering constraints and new research trajectories. We build and prototype as a way of knowing.
Unknown
Signal
Signal
OBSERVATION / 001
ORIGIN: UNRESOLVED
UTILITY: TESTABLE
UTILITY: TESTABLE
● LIVE INPUT
01ObserveStart with the unusual signal.
02ConstrainAsk what must be physically true.
03BuildTurn constraints into models and prototypes.
04LearnSee what survives contact with reality.
001 / What we do
Applied R&D
Turning anomalous observations into hypotheses, simulations, experiments, and technical programs.
Venture Reviews
Helping unusual ideas become practical projects, experiments, and roadmaps for action.
“The next technology revolution will come from places that look less like defense contractors and more like monasteries, archives, and quiet rooms full of strange instruments and devoted practitioners.”
002 / Founder
Joel
Kady
Affiliation
Ralph Bunche Institute · UAP Working Group on UN Engagement
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Joel Kady is a NYC-based technology consultant and founder of Future Folklore, an incubator for new companies and applied research engaging the UAP domain. He also co-founded the UAP Working Group on UN Engagement at the Ralph Bunche Institute, part of the Institute’s Project on UAP Studies and International Security at the CUNY Graduate Center.
His research interests include folklore and religious traditions as vehicles for encoding technical knowledge, alongside novel approaches to treating UAP data as engineering constraints for generating new technical hypotheses, architectures, and R&D pathways. His background spans scientific computing, technology consulting, theology, and business consulting.
UAP & anomaly research
Scientific computing
Folklore & religion
Venture development