Today we’re making Open Future Forum’s operator-research permanent. Every report we’ve published — the CEO, CFO, CMO, and CISO AI Leverage Reports, the Executive AI Leverage Report, the CFO, CMO, and CISO AI Market Maps, the AI Transformation Report, and the YC Founder AI Report — now lives in an open, version-controlled archive that is independently backed up and citable by a permanent DOI.
We publish research read from inside the room: first-party survey and qualitative data from the executives and founders who actually hold AI budgets, build AI, and use it daily. Work like that is only worth as much as its permanence and its provenance. So we did three things at once.
One open repository
The full research library is now an open repository on GitHub: github.com/murraylovecode/executive-ai-research. It holds every Open Future Forum report alongside a curated shelf of third-party industry AI research we lean on, so the primary sources and the wider context sit in one place. Because it’s version-controlled, every revision is on the record: you can see what changed, and when.
A permanent DOI on Zenodo
The repository is archived on Zenodo, the open-science archive operated at CERN, which mints a Digital Object Identifier — the same kind of permanent citation link used for academic papers. Ours is 10.5281/zenodo.21576019. It is a concept DOI, meaning it stays constant across every future version and always resolves to the latest edition, so a citation made today keeps working as the research grows.
An independent snapshot on Software Heritage
The same code and files are archived on Software Heritage, the universal archive of software and source code backed by UNESCO. It is a second, independent guarantee: if GitHub ever went away, the work would still exist, preserved for the long term by an organisation whose whole purpose is to keep it.
How to cite it
Analysts, journalists, and researchers can now cite the work the way any durable source is cited. The permanent link is https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.21576019, with attribution to “Open Future Forum” or “Murray Newlands, founder of Open Future Forum.” The reports remain free to read on the site, and the archive simply makes them permanent, verifiable, and easy to reference.
This is the same instinct behind everything we publish: show the base, state the method, and stand behind the record. Making the whole library open and permanent is the natural next step.