Paper One
The Agentic Economy
AI is moving from knowing, to acting, to transacting. Why blockchain rails become the settlement layer for software that buys and sells on our behalf.
MetaMuse and the agentic economy
The thinking behind the work: a paper series, a weekly blog, and the venture I am building from them.
The venture
MetaMuse
When software agents start to buy and sell on our behalf, every transaction carries risk: a mistake, a dispute, a counterparty that does not deliver.
MetaMuse is my venture for that problem. Its first proposition, Agentic Capital Market, is transaction underwriting for machine commerce: pricing and standing behind the risk of what agents do, so that businesses and people can let them transact with confidence.
MetaMuse is separate from my work at Alludium.
How the writing and the venture fit together
The papers are where I work out the ideas in public: what agents need in order to be trusted, how machine markets behave, and what goes wrong. MetaMuse is where I put the conclusions to work.
Paper Three, for example, argues that mistakes on machine trades should be handled as a priced feature of the contract, with undo windows and insurance built into the rails. That is the problem MetaMuse exists to solve.
The papers
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Paper Two
The Trust Stack
How an agent proves who it is, what it is allowed to do and who it answers to, and why that trust has to be verifiable before markets can rely on it.
Paper Three
Machine Markets
Agents will trade at machine speed. What happens when they make mistakes, how undo windows and insurance can be built into the rails, and who ends up with the value.
Paper Four
The Quantum Deadline
Why the cryptography that protects digital assets has to change, and why starting early is a management task rather than a panic.
Paper Five
Governing the Machine Economy
Liability, agent identity standards, programmable compliance and the jurisdictional race: what proportionate regulation of autonomous economic actors looks like, and who wins by writing it first.
Paper Six
The Firm, Redrawn
What continuous, market-priced capability acquisition does to organisational boundaries, procurement and the shape of the enterprise.
The blog
A weekly post in between
In the weeks I am not publishing a paper, I write a shorter post on the agentic economy: something I have seen, built, learned or got wrong.
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