Ribbonfarm Inc. is an independent publishing, research, and consulting company founded by Venkatesh Rao. It provides consulting services in the areas of market positioning and branding, product and user-experience design and evaluation, design of social systems, mathematical modeling of complex agent-based systems, organization design and culture, and research design for problems with technical, social, and psychological aspects. Ribbonfarm also provides sponsored research and commissioned writing projects for their select clients.