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What is the FCPI Index?
The FCPI Index is a framework for measuring when a platform, infrastructure layer, or service becomes a finality-bearing choke point with strategic consequences.
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13 items across the journal, including 8 research pages and 5 cases.
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Finality Choke Point Index (FCPI): Measuring Platform Power and Strategic Dependency
A comparative method for identifying when control over a platform, infrastructure layer, or service becomes control over completion — the point at which dependency becomes leverage.
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The Indispensability Threshold
The indispensability threshold is crossed when replacing or bypassing a system ceases to be a normal procurement choice and becomes a strategic disruption.
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How FCPI Scores Work on This Site
FCPI is a formal method, but this journal presents it in a public-facing score format so cases can be read quickly and compared consistently.
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Scam Centres Are Not Fraud. They Are Infrastructure.
Scam centres persist not because enforcement fails, but because disruption never reaches the real choke points: labour control, payment rails, and jurisdictional protection.
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FCPI Scoring Model for Scam Ecosystems
A structured application of the Finality Choke Point Index to scam-centre ecosystems, identifying where control over coercive outcomes actually sits across seven dimensions.
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Jurisdictional Cover and Epistemic Cover
Two mechanisms that stabilise coercive infrastructure by making it physically unreachable and analytically invisible — and what the FCPI framework reveals about both.
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Starlink vs Starshield: Platform Sovereignty and the Collapse of Neutral Infrastructure
Analysis of how Starlink became mission-critical infrastructure in Ukraine, why neutrality collapses under coercive dependency, and how Starshield represents institutional separation.
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Scam Centres: Eastern Europe vs Southeast Asia
A structural comparison of two scam centre models — compound coercion in Southeast Asia and office coercion in Eastern Europe — through the FCPI framework.
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AI Models as Choke Points: OpenAI, Google, and the FCPI Analysis of Model Power
Analysis of foundation model providers as high-FCPI infrastructure layers, and how AI model dependency creates sovereignty, continuity, and control risks.
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Cloud Providers as Sovereignty Choke Points: AWS, Azure, and the FCPI Model
Analysis of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud as high-FCPI infrastructure layers, and how cloud dependency creates sovereignty and control risks.
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SWIFT as a Financial Choke Point: Payments, Sanctions, and the FCPI Analysis
Analysis of SWIFT as a high-FCPI financial infrastructure, showing how payment messaging systems create global dependency and geopolitical leverage.
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Foundation Models as Emerging Choke Points
Model access layers can become strategically consequential when institutions depend on them for cognition, workflow acceleration, and system coordination.