reSTATE InitiativeKyiv · 50.4501° N, 30.5234° EImplementation at state scale


Rebuild the Nation.
Reinvent the State.


A nation is its people. A state is the institutions they live inside. Ukraine’s reconstruction is a once-in-a-century opportunity to rebuild both at once — designing infrastructure, institutions and citizen experiences from what already works elsewhere, with modern technology and behavioural science. We build the blueprint of the future nation-state where it is needed first.

01Why Ukraine, why now

Ukraine is the live case study of every challenge the next century will hand every nation.

Statement 01

Drone-era security, energy resilience, mass trauma and disinformation arrive here first.

Nothing about these pressures is uniquely Ukrainian. They are simply early. What is engineered against them here becomes the reference implementation elsewhere.

Statement 02

A country rebuilt from zero can adopt the institutions of 2045 instead of restoring those of 1995.

Legacy systems are the binding constraint on state reform everywhere. Their absence is the one advantage reconstruction confers — and it expires quickly.

Statement 03

Rebuilding is a motivation problem before it is a money problem.

Capital follows conviction. Whether citizens, returnees and investors act is a question of designed motivation — the discipline this initiative was founded on.

02Initiatives

Seven global fault lines.

Flagship initiative — Mriya Safe Skies

Protecting Ukraine’s airports, shaping global aviation security

Civil aviation was never built for drones. Mriya turns that problem into a standard the rest of the world can adopt.

01

Education Rewired

Learning designed for motivation, not attendance.

02

Energy Resilience

Grids that survive the loss of their own centre.

03

Warfare & Security 2.0

Defence redefined by autonomy and cost asymmetry.

04

Democracy & Truth

Institutions that hold when the information layer does not.

05

Healthcare Continuity

Care that continues through disruption, including trauma recovery.

06

Displacement & Housing

Somewhere to return to, and a reason to return.

07

Economic Resilience

Enterprise that can be rebuilt as fast as it can be lost.

03The model

Reform fails in implementation, not in imagination.

Phase 01

Source

Find where the problem is already solved, and separate what made it work from what merely surrounded it.

Phase 02

Adapt

Rework the solution with the ministries, operators and technologists who will own it, for the law, capacity and incentives it will actually meet.

Phase 03

Install

Place it inside the institution that has to run it, with owners and budget, not beside it as a project.

Phase 04

Transfer

Hand over the operation, and document the method as a standard other states can adopt without repeating the cost of learning.

04Founders

Four co-founders, one operating thesis.

Yu-kai Chou

Yu-kai Chou

Creator of the Octalysis Framework
Salim Ismail

Salim Ismail

Founding Executive Director, Singularity University
Igor Novikov

Igor Novikov

Former Advisor to the President of Ukraine
David Traub

David Traub

Award-winning Producer & Venture Catalyst

05Partnership

Build the blueprint with us.

We work with governments, operators, foundations and technology partners who want their contribution to outlive the reconstruction.