SOVEREOGLOBAL INTELLIGENCE · PERSONAL CONSEQUENCE
Cross-Border Decision Intelligence

Understand how the world's decisions change yours.

Sovereo traces geopolitics, policy, technology, markets and institutions into the choices that set your income, education, health, lifestyle and legacy. What moved, what it touches, and the evidence that should govern the decision. Every forecast is scored in public.

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What moved, what it touches, and what to do about it. Free, every morning.
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18 · 2forecasts right · wrong, graded in public
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NewThe Sovereo Decision Forecast. Every week: what is likely to happen, how sure we are as a clear number, and what it means for your money, your home and your plans. Graded in public.$27 a month →
The daily SITREP · Free

What lands in your inbox every morning

Not a headline roundup. The Executive Dashboard establishes current conditions. Today's Read asks what changed, where it landed, and so what. A consequence-first Global Scan tracks material developments across regions, with country and sector exposure, followed by the next observable event and numbered sources.

  • 1Primary sources, named. Institutional data stands on its own. Independent reporting needs two-source corroboration. State organs are marked as framing, never as fact.
  • 2Consequences before novelty. Continuing disruptions compete directly with new announcements, and omitted regions receive an internal evidence review.
  • 3Global evidence by design. Primary, regional, and local sources carry the analysis beyond familiar Western wires.
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Try the intelligence yourself, free

Four instruments built from the same evidence as the SITREP. Each runs in your browser and shows you where you stand.

Location decision

Best-Fit Countries

Answer a short set of questions and see which countries actually fit your life, income, and priorities.

Find your best-fit countries → Where you stand

Global Income Rank

Enter your income in your own currency and see where it places you against the whole world.

See your global rank → Purchasing power

Cost of Living Compare

See how far the same money goes from one country to another, adjusted for real prices on the ground.

Compare two countries → Sovereign risk

US Debt Clock & Global Debt

The live US national debt, and how heavily every major country borrows, and in whose currency.

Open the debt clock → See it clearly

The Map Lies

Drag any country across the map and watch its size distort, while its real area never changes.

See how the map lies →

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Latest research

The public intelligence record

View the scored record →

Current conditions, deeper analysis, falsifiable judgments, and applied research are published as separate products inside one intelligence system.

Daily · Free

Executive SITREP

The latest verified movement, present consequences, geographic exposure, and next observable event.

Open the SITREP archive → Weekly · Analysis

The Sovereo Brief

One consequential question tested through contrary evidence, competing scenarios, and explicit uncertainty.

Read a sample Brief → Weekly · $27 a month

The Decision Forecast

A clear number on what is likely to happen, what it means for your situation, and a public grade when the date comes.

See the Decision Forecast → Methods · Corrections

Research standard

How evidence is compared, uncertainty is calibrated, and claims remain open to correction.

Examine the research standard →
The next rung · The Sovereo Brief
The SITREP shows what changed and where it landed. The Brief shows how to decide under the changed conditions.

Awareness is free and it always will be. The paid weekly Brief takes one consequential question, tests the strongest contrary case, compares scenarios, and identifies the evidence that would change the judgment. Every forecast is dated and scored in public.

  • ✓One catalyst each week, traced to your money, with the action to take before the window closes.
  • ✓A falsifiable forecast every issue, dated and marked correct or wrong in public.
  • ✓The full weekly archive and the complete forecast ledger.
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Free · daily
SITREP
What happened, and what it means.
Paid · weekly
The Brief
How to decide, and what would change the judgment.
$47 / month
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The Sovereo Decision Forecast
Most commentary can never be proven wrong. Ours can. A clear number every week, graded in public on its date.
20
calls graded
18 · 2
right · wrong
27
open now
The misses stay beside the hits. $27 a month, or included with the Sovereo Brief. See the Decision Forecast → Every call →

Who Sovereo is for

This is for you if
✓You make consequential decisions about income, education, health, lifestyle, business, or legacy under changing global conditions.
✓You need to understand how policy, markets, technology, institutions, and essential systems such as energy, food, water, infrastructure, and communications reach your household or organization.
✓You want continuing consequences weighed as seriously as new events.
✓You may stay, move, or keep both options open, and want evidence to govern the choice.
✓You want contrary evidence, uncertainty, and practical constraints made visible.
This is not for you if
✗You want a stream of headlines without analysis of consequences.
✗You want certainty, prediction theater, or a predetermined political conclusion.
✗You want a relocation, investment, or passport sale disguised as independent research.
What readers say
“Sovereo Intelligence Research is one of the most useful and distinctive sources of intelligence analysis I have encountered. Its Daily SITREP does more than report geopolitical events. It explains how they reach energy prices, inflation, supply chains, business costs, household finances, health, security, and the decisions people must make. By consistently asking ‘So what?’, Sovereo turns global information into intelligence that is genuinely useful.”
José Méndez · Economics Professor · Ohio, USA
“I read Todd's SITREP every morning. Before coffee, before anything else hits my inbox. Four sections, sourced, no filler. What changed in the world and what it means. What to watch next. Todd doesn't hedge and he doesn't ramble to fill space. Four minutes in and I know something real. Primary sources, every time. Not somebody's hot take on a headline they skimmed. Todd builds intelligence, not commentary.”
Kirk Shelton · Founder, Blueprint AI
“No one wants to leave a decision this important to chance in their later years, especially when, once those years are reached, there is no turning back. Being able to preload my situation and get a location that actually suits me is exactly what is needed.”
Dr. JHK · weighing a retirement move on a fixed income
Global change is already personal
Macro forces become real through the systems that determine everyday choices.
Income and enterprise
Rates, currencies, energy, regulation, technology, and trade change purchasing power, employment, margins, and access to capital.
Economic exposure
Education and capability
Demographics, automation, public capacity, and institutional rules change which skills retain value and where opportunity remains accessible.
Human capability
Health and security
Food, water, energy, infrastructure, conflict, and state capacity determine whether essential systems remain available and reliable.
Essential systems
Lifestyle and legacy
Law, taxation, social conditions, mobility, and institutional durability shape where life is lived and what can be preserved.
Long-horizon decisions
Do not meet a consequential decision with headlines alone.

Start with the daily position report: what changed, what is already different, how it reaches you, and which decision may now require attention.

Get the free daily SITREP → Read published editions
The world is connected
A vote in the Andes moves a commodity, a business margin, and household purchasing power. A chip rule in Taiwan moves your devices and your work. A closure in Hormuz moves your fuel and your savings.
You do not have to cross a border to be exposed. The borders crossed you. Sovereo draws that line every day, from the event to your exposure, with at least half of the evidence from primary, regional and local sources, not the Western wires.

One intelligence system, four depths

Start with current conditions, deepen the consequential question, then apply the research only where your decision requires it.

Step 1 · Free daily

Establish the position

The Executive SITREP identifies verified movement, present consequences, country and sector exposure, and the next observable event.

Get the Executive SITREP → Step 2 · $27 a month

Know what is likely next

The Decision Forecast gives a clear number for what is likely to happen, what it means for your situation, and what would change our mind. Every call graded in public.

See the Decision Forecast → Step 3 · $47 a month

Examine the decision

The Sovereo Brief tests one consequential question through competing explanations, contrary evidence, scenarios, and dated judgments. Includes the Decision Forecast.

See the Sovereo Brief → Step 4 · Apply when relevant

Use the intelligence

Compare countries, examine capital conditions, commission a dossier, or seek private research when staying, moving, or preserving both options becomes the live decision.

Explore decision tools →
Live Lab · Cohort 01 · Waitlist open now

The Retirement Decision Lab

For Americans 55 and older deciding when, whether and where to retire, at home or abroad. Four weeks, four decisions, your own numbers worked live. $297, live Wednesdays from January 20.

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Applied intelligence

Use the research only when the decision requires it

These instruments are applications of Sovereo intelligence, not the subject that defines the company.

Comparative conditions

The Sovereo Index

Compare 192 countries across the conditions shaping income, capability, health, environment, belonging, and legacy.

Explore the country index → Capital exposure

Capital and Enterprise

Examine purchasing power, operating conditions, capital access, and the ability to move resources across jurisdictions.

Examine capital conditions → Jurisdiction research

Country Dossiers

Move from comparative indicators to sourced analysis of the rules, institutions, and constraints inside one country.

View country dossiers → Location decision

Best-Fit Countries

Use location analysis when staying, moving, or preserving both options becomes the decision actually under examination.

Apply the location instrument →
One method

One method behind every Sovereo product

Sovereo studies how decisions are made, by nations, markets, and now AI. Every product runs the same four steps: the signal, the mechanism, the consequence, then a decision checked in public. The SITREP and the Brief apply it to the world, the Index and Country Dossiers to place, the Retirement Decision Lab to your own retirement, the Decision Forecast to our own judgment, and Web Works to how clients choose a business.

Sovereo Web Works · For businesses

Your clients now ask AI who to hire

The same method, applied to how clients choose a business. We research what they ask, build the answers, and score every month whether Google AI Mode, ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Claude name you. Founding offer: an AI-ready website for a $500 build with a 12-month care plan, through November 30.

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Why Sovereo is different

It brokers nothing

Many relocation and offshore firms earn fees when a residency, citizenship, property, or referral transaction closes. Sovereo receives none of those fees. Transaction completion therefore does not determine whether the research supports moving, waiting, choosing elsewhere, or staying home.

It runs on evidence

Every score traces to named public data and established research, from the Whitehall studies to the WHO Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Sources, method, uncertainty, and confidence remain visible to the reader.

It was lived, not theorized

Built by an economist who made the cross-border move himself and reads the ground from the inside, then turned that judgment into an instrument you can use for your own life.

The founder

Bogotá, where Sovereo is written and lived.
Todd Allyn
Todd Allyn
Founder, Sovereo Intelligence Research
24 years
teaching economics and business, and former Dean of a college of business
Jack Welch School
helped build it, and has taught from a US classroom to students in China
192 countries
scored on the six determinants of a long, healthy, wealthy life
Moved for real
lives in Colombia by choice, not by default

Todd Allyn is an economist who taught the subject for twenty-four years, then made the cross-border move himself. He lives in Colombia, which sits mid-pack on the objective Index yet ranks first once his own best-fit countries tool weights it for his life, family first, with portable income and the currency arbitrage the move makes possible. That is the premise Sovereo was built on: the right country is never the top of a worldwide ranking, it is the top of yours, and he built the instrument that proves it.

Built on the data of
UNDP
Human development
World Bank
Governance, prices, PPP
WHO
Health systems
Yale EPI
Environment
Heritage
Economic freedom
Chinn-Ito
Capital openness
GLOBALCIT
Citizenship law
EF
English proficiency
V-Dem
Group equality
Gallup
Migrant acceptance
Williams Institute
Acceptance
IMF
Sovereign debt
US Treasury
National debt
BIS
Debt currency
OECD
Purchasing power
Questions

Questions about Sovereo

What is Sovereo Intelligence Research?

Sovereo Intelligence Research is a reader-funded systems intelligence publisher based in Bogotá, Colombia. It covers geopolitics, culture, technopolitics, astropolitics, rare earths and minerals, and traces how the world's decisions change an individual's options on income, education, health, lifestyle and legacy. Every Sovereo forecast is stated falsifiably, dated and scored in public.

Who founded Sovereo?

Sovereo was founded by Todd Allyn, its Founding Director, who is based in Bogotá, Colombia. He spent about 24 years teaching college economics, finance and business and served as a business school dean. He founded Sovereo to apply what he taught to the decisions people face about where their money, freedom and future work hardest.

What is systems intelligence?

Systems intelligence, as Sovereo uses the term, traces how decisions by governments, firms and institutions move through mechanisms such as bargaining power, dependencies and incentives until they change your options. Each Sovereo analysis names the decision, then the mechanism, and ends with what changes for a household's income, costs, health, lifestyle and legacy.

What is the Sovereo Index?

The Sovereo Index ranks 192 countries from 0 to 100 on six pillars: Income, Education, Health and Longevity, Environment, Lifestyle and Belonging, and Legacy and Sovereignty. The overall score is the average of the six. A separate Capital and Enterprise lens scores how a country treats money and is kept out of the overall.

Is Sovereo financial advice?

No. Sovereo publishes educational research, not legal, tax, immigration or financial advice. Its founder, Todd Allyn, is not a financial advisor and does not offer financial planning. Sovereo research is AI-assisted with human editorial oversight, and specifics should be confirmed with a licensed professional in the relevant jurisdiction.

What does Sovereo publish, and what is free?

Sovereo publishes the free Daily SITREP, the weekly Decision Forecast at $27 a month, the weekly Sovereo Brief at $47 a month or $470 a year with the Decision Forecast included, and Country Dossiers at $99 each. The SITREP, the Sovereo Index, the Forecast Ledger and the free tools cost nothing.

Free, every morning

One brief, when consequences matter more than headlines.

Join the free Executive SITREP: verified global movement traced into current exposure across income, education, health, lifestyle, business, and legacy.

Archive example · July 1 SITREP
The Hormuz Trap. Ceasefire on paper, leverage in practice: Iran has not released the strait, it has monetized it.
Bolivia floats its currency. The peg breaks and a 40 percent devaluation lands overnight; every US-dollar asset there just repriced.
Peru and Colombia swing right. The two largest Andean economies now sit in the same column, and the foreign-capital rules are what move next.
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