About BRAN
Bureau of Research into Absurd Normalities
The BRAN Corporation is an independent, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to the rigorous analysis of phenomena that serious institutions have traditionally overlooked, dismissed, or actively pretended do not exist. Founded on the principle that the mundane deserves the same analytical scrutiny as the consequential, BRAN produces policy briefings of questionable utility but undeniable thoroughness.
We apply the same methodological rigor to office snack distribution as others apply to arms control verification. The stakes, we argue, are comparable.
All BRAN research is published openly and distributed without restriction. We believe that knowledge about meeting proliferation dynamics should be free.
BRAN accepts no funding that might compromise our ability to state, with a straight face, that refrigerator governance is a matter of national importance.
Dr. Overhead has spent three decades studying the organizational dynamics of institutions that study organizational dynamics. She previously served as Deputy Assistant to the Assistant Deputy at a government agency whose name remains classified for reasons no one can remember.
A decorated statistician, Prof. Quartile pioneered the field of Recreational Quantification — the application of advanced mathematics to problems that do not require it. He holds endowed chairs at two universities, though he can only sit in one at a time.
Dr. Memorandum oversees all BRAN publications, ensuring each briefing achieves the optimal ratio of insight to word count. Her doctoral thesis, 'Executive Summaries: Who Reads Past the First Bullet Point?' remains the most downloaded paper in the field.
Commander Footnote brings 22 years of military and intelligence experience to BRAN, primarily in the area of producing reports that are simultaneously urgent and ignored. He is the architect of our Classified Humor Protocol (CHP).
Dr. Volkov-Lindqvist leads BRAN's absorbed accountability and deniable-operations portfolio, having previously run three internal working groups that were each told, at the time, that they were the only one. She maintains that the distance between a proxy network and an org chart is smaller than either side would like to admit, and declines to specify which side she means.
Commander Redaction spent two decades investigating the kind of institutional silence that has a budget line, and now investigates the kind that has a break-room fridge. He notes the paperwork is nearly identical. His FOIA response time remains, in his own assessment, competitively slow.
We are always looking for researchers who take unserious questions seriously.
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