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I like "Insight". It alludes to "Incite", which is an exciting word that is related to the organization (definition- to give rise to, to urge into action, to stir up, etc). And it also can be broken into "in sight", which can be related to having your goals in sight, striving to reach for an attainable goal, etc.
So it's one word, with 3 positive connotations (Insight, Incite, and In Sight)
How about:
Sanity Insight
Rationality Insight
<Insert Postive Word Here> Insight
Insight Institute
Edited: Changed all "InSight" suggestions to "Insight", because I agree with markette's critique below.
I like "Insight" too, but probably not "InSight" as part of the name, feels a bit gimmicky, as markette says.
"Insight Institute" has nice alliteration.
"Applied Insight" has good connotations for caring about effectiveness, as opposed to mere philosophizing. It also has the same initials as "Artificial Intelligence" which I'm not sure if it's a minus or a plus.
Then they could use old "SIAI" headed notepaper to refer to the union of SI and AI!
Can you imagine anyone's opinion being altered by such a thing? Its value rounds to zero (It's nonzero, but the smallest credit the human mind could give it is, I suspect, too much).
I get your point -- but still: If something's initials mean something different, this means it effectively can't be referenced or googled by those initials.
Yeah, this is a minor point if the name is just two words, but still something to consider if someone has name ideas that include "Figuring Better Ideas", "Cognitive Insight Applications" or for that matter "Neural Augmentation and Methodical Bettering of Life Alliance" . :-)