Don Gaconnet
engineer and professional in Lake Geneva, WI, United
Don Gaconnet
Cognitive Systems Engineer III | Founder, LifePillar Institute for Structural Identity Sciences
I measure the structural condition of the person the capital depends on.
Every due diligence framework reads the math, the contracts, the systems, and the market. None of them independently measures the person. I built the instrument that does — bypassing self-report entirely and reading the structural state through independent channels the executive's performance layer does not control.
My research — published on SSRN, archived at OSF and Zenodo — establishes the Recursive Reliability Effect: self-assessment under structural load is wrong about domain 81.4% of the time. Three independent research programs have confirmed these predictions, including a 2026 JAMA Network Open meta-analysis.
I serve PE firms, boards, attorneys, fiduciaries, and family offices. The assessment is brief. The report is engineering-grade. It goes in the deal file alongside the financial analysis and the legal opinion.
Twenty-seven years of field service engineering. U.S. government agencies. Every military branch. U.S. Senate offices. Fortune 500. T3/Secret clearance, active.
Lake Geneva, Wisconsin.
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