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Metaculus Pro

Custom enterprise forecasting tournaments and pro forecaster intelligence.

Founded
2015
Valuation
Regulated
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Gambity Prestige
Active
Metaculus Pro securing enterprise contracts with 50+ major AI labs and think tanks by 2028
86%
— Eleanor Ashworth

Metaculus Pro is the institutional enterprise suite and pro forecasting deployment engine operated by Metaculus Inc., a registered Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) founded in 2015 by theoretical physicist Anthony Aguirre, data scientist Max Wainwright, and astrophysicist Greg Laughlin. Established to build global epistemic infrastructure, Metaculus evolved from an open reputation-based crowd forecasting engine into a primary quantitative decision-support layer for global institutions, non-profits, and policy bodies.

Metaculus Pro allows enterprise clients, philanthropic foundations, biosecurity research groups, and government units to launch private forecasting instances or deploy elite "Metaculus Pro Forecasters." Utilizing the platform's proprietary Recalibrated Community Prediction model—which aggregates, recalibrates, and accuracy-weights continuous, binary, and date-range probability distributions—Metaculus delivers high-resolution foresight. Pro Forecasters are hand-selected, track-record-vetted experts who pair calibrated numeric probabilities with transparent qualitative reasoning.

The platform is especially prominent across Frontier AI safety benchmarking, biosecurity mitigation, public health policy, and global catastrophic risk research. Metaculus Pro has delivered institutional forecasting projects for major decision-makers, including seasonal respiratory disease modeling for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and targeted technological risk mapping for top AI safety institutes and philanthropic funders.

Timeline
2015
Metaculus Established
Anthony Aguirre, Max Wainwright, and Greg Laughlin launch Metaculus to aggregate crowd wisdom on scientific and technological developments.
2017
The Metaculus Prediction Engine
Deploys automated Recalibrated Community Prediction models, consistently outperforming simple crowd medians.
2020
Pandemic Response & Bentham Prizes
Launches rapid-response epidemiological forecasting initiatives tracking COVID-19 transmission dynamics and vaccine timelines.
2022
Public Benefit Corporation & $5.5M Grant
Restructures as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC) and receives a $5.5 million grant from Open Philanthropy to expand open forecasting infrastructure.
2024
Metaculus Pro & Open Source Rollout
Formally launches dedicated Metaculus Pro Forecaster services for institutional clients like the CDC, while open-sourcing its web codebase.
2026
AI Bot & Human Hybrid Benchmarks
Integrates automated LLM-driven forecasting agents into real-time consensus dashboards alongside Pro Forecasters.
Frequently Asked
Metaculus Pro is the enterprise service layer of Metaculus, providing private forecasting spaces, customized decision tournaments, and direct access to vetted Pro Forecasters for institutional clients.
Metaculus was founded in 2015 by theoretical physicist Anthony Aguirre, data scientist Carroll "Max" Wainwright, and astrophysicist Greg Laughlin.
Metaculus operates as a registered Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), legally committed to serving the public good by advancing forecasting research and open epistemic tools.
Metaculus uses logarithmic and Brier-based scoring rules tailored for binary, numeric, and date-range predictions, aggregating them through a recalibrated model that weights individual users based on historical accuracy and calibration.
Key clients and partners include government agencies like the CDC, AI safety institutes, biosecurity research organizations, policy think tanks, and major philanthropic foundations.
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