INDEPENDENT ECONOMIC ADVISORY & RESEARCH
Independent economic advice on AI readiness, value realisation and high-stakes investment decisions — combining senior economic expertise with practical AI capability.
WHAT CYBORG ECONOMICS DOES
Economic analysis for organisations adopting AI, and AI-enabled economics for major decisions.
Understanding where AI can create economic value, what prevents organisations from realising it, and how performance should be measured.
Rigorous economic advice for high-stakes choices, using AI selectively where it improves speed, consistency and analytical transparency.
FLAGSHIP RESEARCH · 2026
Cyborg Economics estimates that incomplete GenAI value conversion could leave around $1 trillion per year of productivity-equivalent value at stake.
The paper develops an economic framework linking AI opportunity, organisational readiness, realised value and value capture.
EXTERNAL CONTRIBUTION
Cyborg Economics contributed the economic analysis behind the value-at-stake section of Parker & Lawrence Research and RegTech Analyst's 2026 industry report.
FOUNDER
Nicholas Herrick founded Cyborg Economics after more than 20 years in UK government. He led the Department for Transport's Economics Centre of Excellence and worked across DfT, HM Treasury and Cabinet Office on appraisal, major investment and analytical capability.
His current work focuses on the economics of AI adoption, enterprise readiness, productivity, value realisation and the use of AI to strengthen professional economic analysis.
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