Founder and research context
Formal reports excluded rejected options, tacit knowledge, operating constraints, and the reasons earlier proposals failed.
Evan Micheal Foster built IVA from operating experience across finance, public health, government, national grant-funded programs, nonprofit governance, and doctoral research on financialization.
Evan Micheal Foster is founder of Integrated Value Architecture LLC and a DPA candidate researching governance, financialization, structural accounting, and human-AI decision architecture.
Research + practice
A cross-disciplinary view of institutional decisions.
Evan Micheal Foster is the founder and Managing Director of Integrated Value Architecture LLC. His experience spans automotive finance, biology, public health, environmental health regulation, government, national nonprofit leadership, grant-funded implementation across every EPA region, board finance, and public administration research.
He holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology and a Master of Public Health from the University of Illinois and is a Doctor of Public Administration candidate. His doctoral research examines how federal tax policy reinforces financialization across sectors and shapes institutional behavior.
Why IVA exists
Repeated approvals, duplicate reports, broken handoffs, hidden correction work, and overload appeared together across the work.
Reports multiplied without reducing uncertainty. Authority and execution separated. People closest to the work rebuilt context that formal systems had discarded. Finance absorbed decisions it did not own because it was the only lane with recognized standing. Good people compensated until the organization treated their exhaustion as an individual problem.
IVA began as an effort to document those conditions through a self-published architecture record, five separate value ledgers, recognition rules, evidence requirements, named authority, and decision records.
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