The Surplus-to-Structure framework — operationalised as Inari Protocol — is the analytical backbone of a firm working at the intersection of renewable energy, sovereign capability, and industrial design. Black Japan Group is the parent.
The library is jurisdiction-aware. Most of it is universal — built once, used everywhere. A small set of cores require per-country calibration: the national surplus waterfall (CM-0), contract authority (CM-5), project finance (CM-6), and grid and cadastre (CM-9, the land-and-property register). Adding a new country means re-instantiating those against local data.
| Jurisdiction | Status | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| New Zealand | Calibrated | CM-0 back-tested 2000–2024 against MBIE data. Sectoral wealth/TWh (terawatt-hour) decomposition partial. Worked example on the cases page. |
| Australia · NEM | In flight | First-instance work underway against AEMO and ABS data. Regional waterfall (Pilbara, SA, QLD) takes precedence over national. Public-facing case to be published when complete. |
| Pacific · Niue + island template | Proven | Engineered-surplus pattern; the project library leads and CM-0 is secondary, but the engine runs the full span. Niue is a proven, end-to-end worked case. Parameter-swap template designed for ~20 island states. |
| Other | By demand | Approximately 12–24 weeks per jurisdiction to first instance. The universal layer is inherited; only the five jurisdictional cores require build. |
First-instance work in flight or under exploration is described in honest terms. Where a calibration is not yet validated, the cases page says so explicitly.
Black Japan Group is the parent firm. Inari Protocol is the framework and the product. The naming reflects a structural commitment: the framework outlives any single engagement, and the firm exists to advance it across many. Inari (稲荷) is the Shinto kami of rice, industry, and prosperity — the deity of productive surplus.
The firm is a strategy + platform + co-development house in the lineage of Macquarie (advisory + platform + principal), BlackRock (Aladdin model — platform as differentiator + advisory + AUM, assets under management), and the Climate Bonds Initiative (analytical authority + advocacy). Three lines of business, one library, conflict structures designed in from the start rather than retrofitted.
A scoping call is the first step. An hour to understand the question, then a proposed product — or an honest signal that the framework isn't a fit yet. We don't ship generic capability decks.
A scoping call is free. The first deliverable is fixed-fee.