Research on agent economies, commercial authority, protocols, procurement, governance, and AI-native organizations.
Read the latestThe launch collection runs from experimental agent economies to buyer and supplier agents, authority, protocol architecture, and the autonomous counterparty.
Plural Worlds proposes a model for the boundary between an organization and the autonomous systems that discover, negotiate, commit, execute, and account on its behalf.
Read the articleA current architecture map of MCP, A2A, UCP, ACP, AP2, x402, and A202, with a practical test for deciding which responsibility belongs where.
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Knowing which agent made a request does not establish that it may bind an organization. The missing questions are mandate, scope, limits, context, approval, and evidence.
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Autonomous procurement becomes a cross-company systems problem when discovery, negotiation, approvals, orders, and evidence must survive the boundary between buyer and supplier.
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New experiments suggest that economic behavior does not appear because agents are assigned commercial roles. It appears when systems control useful, transferable rights and resources.
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Meet A202, the open protocol for verifiable agreements between organizations and their software agents. Learn how authority, state, evidence, and carriers fit together.
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The technical paper for A202: delegated authority, signed agreement state, disclosure controls, deterministic verification, and executable conformance.
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