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Research

The structures forming beneath the agent economy.

Long-form analysis of the layers, standards and commercial models that will decide which agent companies endure—and which remain demonstrations.

  • The agent economy needs more than agents

    Intelligence may create capable agents. It will not, by itself, create trusted economic actors. An entire commercial and institutional system must form around them.

    James Lawrence · 9 minutes

  • The agent trust and control stack

    Enterprise agents do not become trustworthy because they have identities. Trust emerges from a connected system of ownership, authority, policy, observation, evidence and recourse.

    James Lawrence · 20 minutes