Support desk: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern

Client support +1 212 014 0171

409 Madison Avenue
New York, New York 10017
Telephone +1 212 014 0147

New York, 3 November 2026

Runciter Associates is a prudence organisation.

For sixty-four years the firm has kept its clients’ affairs private from anyone who would read them, by whatever means they read. We place staff whose own fields cancel telepathic and precognitive intrusion, sweep premises for the ordinary kind, and maintain the software our clients’ staff sign in to, and sweep premises for the ordinary kind.

We do not advertise, and we do not name our clients. Most of them were sent to us by someone who no longer worries about being read.

Our protection is your protection.

The practice

  1. Prudence

    The whole of the firm’s work under one engagement letter: an assessment of who could be reading a client’s affairs, and by what means, followed by a standing arrangement to prevent it.

  2. Inertial placement

    Members of staff whose own fields cancel telepathic and precognitive activity within a measured radius, placed in a client’s boardroom, offices or household.

  3. Field measurement

    Surveys of the psychic field on a client’s premises, so that nobody is placed until the room has been measured. The instrument has been licensed by the Turing Registry as TR-01993 since 2004.

  4. Counter-surveillance

    Technical sweeps for the conventional kind of listening: transmitters, recorders, and the household appliances that have begun listening on their own account.

  5. Half-life privacy

    Screening of consultation rooms for families with relatives in half-life, so that a conversation is heard only by the person it was meant for.

  6. Software

    The Runciter Associates Intranet Suite 2.0: staff mail and a directory, installed on the client’s own systems, maintained by the firm and supported by telephone.

A placement

One inertial, one floor.

The firm measures before it places anyone. Plate 1 is a survey of one floor of a client’s offices in Midtown. The client asked for a shortened survey: three points instead of the usual six to twelve, read at nine every morning for a week before the placement and a week after. A talent working from the premises next door could read the whole floor; the executive offices, nearest the party wall, read highest.

On 2 September the firm placed one Class IV inertial in the chairman’s office. Within his radius of 7.4 metres, which takes in the end of the boardroom table and the nearer executive office, readings fell to below one standard field unit. The open office, outside it, was barely changed, and the client now holds its meetings at that end of the table.

Before placementFloor plan of a client’s offices, 36 by 20 metres. Contours of a telepathic field enter from the adjacent premises and cross every room. Readings: 14.7 standard field units at the end of the boardroom table, 31.1 in the nearer executive office and 13.7 in the open office. BOARDROOMCHAIRMANEXECUTIVE OFFICESOPEN OFFICELIFTSRECORDSADJACENTPREMISES 0510 m N 5040302215105 P1 14.7P2 31.1P3 13.7 A. BEFORE PLACEMENT · 26 AUGUST Before placementFloor plan of a client’s offices, 36 by 20 metres. Contours of a telepathic field enter from the adjacent premises and cross every room. Readings: 14.7 standard field units at the end of the boardroom table, 31.1 in the nearer executive office and 13.7 in the open office. BOARDROOMCHAIRMANEXECUTIVEOFFICESOPEN OFFICELIFTSRECORDSADJACENT PREMISES 0510 m N 5040302215105 P1 14.7P2 31.1P3 13.7 A. BEFORE PLACEMENT · 26 AUGUST
After placementThe same floor after one inertial has been placed in the chairman’s office. The contours stop at a dashed circle 7.4 metres in radius, which takes in the end of the boardroom table, the chairman’s office and the nearer executive office. The boardroom now reads 0.4, the executive office 0.7 and the open office, outside the circle, 13.4 standard field units. BOARDROOMCHAIRMANEXECUTIVE OFFICESOPEN OFFICELIFTSRECORDSADJACENTPREMISES 0510 m N 50402215105 INERTIAL P1 0.4P2 0.7P3 13.4 B. AFTER PLACEMENT · 9 SEPTEMBER After placementThe same floor after one inertial has been placed in the chairman’s office. The contours stop at a dashed circle 7.4 metres in radius, which takes in the end of the boardroom table, the chairman’s office and the nearer executive office. The boardroom now reads 0.4, the executive office 0.7 and the open office, outside the circle, 13.4 standard field units. BOARDROOMCHAIRMANEXECUTIVEOFFICESOPEN OFFICELIFTSRECORDSADJACENT PREMISES 0510 m N 50402215105 INERTIAL P1 0.4P2 0.7P3 13.4 B. AFTER PLACEMENT · 9 SEPTEMBER
Plate 1. Field contours on one floor of a client’s offices before and after the placement of a single inertial. Contours and readings in standard field units; the field enters from the adjacent premises. Inside the inertial’s radius the contours stop. Published with the client’s consent and without its name.

Bulletins

  • Fifty years

    The firm marks its fiftieth year by reissuing the 1966 standards manual and changing nothing else.

  • Glen Runciter joins the board of Frothly

    The firm’s founder has been elected a director of the San Francisco research institute, and has declared his interest in the firm to its board.

  • A Zürich office for the firm’s European clients

    The office on Rämistrasse will serve clients in Europe and keep in touch with the Turing Registry, whose offices are nearby.

  • PSI-FIELD MONITOR licensed by the Turing Registry

    The firm’s field instrument is licensed for talent detection as TR-01993, among the first privately operated systems on the register.

  • A note on an aerosol product

    A member of our field staff has filed a household aerosol with the Turing Registry for review. The firm has no interest in the product and does not recommend it.

All bulletins, 1998 to the present

Client support

Notice to clients

Passwords for the Intranet Suite are reset by telephone only. Call the support desk in New York, +1 212 014 0171, Monday to Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Eastern.

The firm will never send you a link to reset a password, and will never ask for one by email. If you receive such a message in our name, please read our notice on impersonation and telephone us.

From the chairman

Clients sometimes ask why the firm has changed so little. The answer is that the things people wish to keep to themselves have not changed since 1962, and neither have the people who would like to know them. What changes is the means: a telepath across the street, a forecaster with a talent nobody declared, a refrigerator with a microphone in it. We keep up with the means, and leave the rest as it was.

The firm is the size it needs to be. This autumn there are 212 inertials on the roster. Last year our technicians swept 1,288 homes and offices and our surveyors took readings in 407 more. The offices in New York and Secaucus answer the telephone, and Zürich answers its letters. We have never named a client who had not named us first.

I put the question of this website to my wife in 1998, and again this spring. On both occasions she said that it should say less. I have done my best.

Glen RunciterFounder and Chairman

Clients sometimes ask why the firm has changed so little. The answer is that the things people wish to keep to themselves have not changed since 1962, and neither have the people who would like to know them. What changes is the means: a telepath across the street, a forecaster with a talent nobody declared, a telephone line that clicks when nobody is speaking. We keep up with the means, and leave the rest as it was.

This year, for the first time, the firm has a page on the World Wide Web. I put the question to my wife, who said that it should say as little as possible. I have done my best.

Glen RunciterFounder and Chairman

Clients sometimes ask why a firm like ours is needed at all. The answer is that there are now people who can hear what you are thinking from the next building, and people who can tell what you will decide before you have decided it. Some of them work for your competitors. We arrange matters so that, in your case, they are wasting their time.

This brochure says as little as it can. My wife, who reads everything the firm prints before it is printed, would have it say less.

Glen RunciterFounder

Research

Research · May 2024

Consumer Device Survey 2024

What our counter-surveillance technicians found in 1,214 homes and offices in 2023: 9,862 connected devices, more than half of them with a microphone, and nearly one in five charging for something it used to do for nothing. Cited by Frothly in Coin-Operated.

Publications · 2017

Half-Life: The Persistence and Decline of Minds in Storage

Glen Runciter’s account of nine years of consultations at a Zürich moratorium, and of what a mind in storage keeps, loses and lets in. Published by Beloved Brethren Press.