Interpretive Engineering (URMC): Infrastructure, Competition, and the Conditions of Technological Freedom

This preprint presents Interpretive Engineering (URMC), a qualification framework for analyzing modern technological systems in which infrastructure, architecture, and economic power are tightly coupled. In domains such as artificial intelligence and advanced industrial systems, traditional distinctions between software, hardware, ownership, and competition increasingly fail to describe how control and dependency actually emerge. URMC focuses on functional reality: where operational authority resides, how architectural dependence forms prior to mergers or pricing power, and when infrastructure itself becomes the decisive economic actor. The work does not propose regulation or policy solutions. Instead, it provides a technically grounded method for interpreting complex systems before legal, economic, or regulatory judgments are made. Intended for researchers, investors, engineers, and regulators, this collection offers a non-ideological lens for understanding competition, innovation, and systemic risk in infrastructure-driven industries