Agentic Economy
9 essays
What changes in commerce, distribution and company formation when the other side of the transaction is an agent.
Agentic Economy
Agentic Internet and the Code of Business Conduct
Commercial norms were written for actors with human limits — fatigue, attention, a working day. Agents have none of them, and the old code of conduct does not bind what it never anticipated.
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Are Appstores Dying?
App stores solved discovery for humans browsing shelves. Agents do not browse, and a distribution layer built for browsing has nothing to sell them.
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Business in a Box
When execution stops being the constraint, the binding constraint becomes architecture. That inverts what a company is for.
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CEO of Your Own Life, or Digital Prison
The same delegation that frees you sets the boundaries of what you will ever consider. Agency and capture are produced by identical machinery.
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From Founder Duos to Solo Founders
The two-founder norm encoded a division of labour between building and selling. Agents absorb enough of both that the second seat becomes optional — and the cost of that is rarely counted.
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Is AI Leading to Super Industrialization?
The industrial revolution scaled physical output and hit physical limits. This one scales cognitive output — and the claim that it is different rests on whether cognition has its own ceiling.
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The Zero Click Problem
The open web was funded by the click. When the answer arrives without one, the funding model for the thing being answered from disappears.
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What Does AI Actually Replace?
Not the circle, not the square — the compass. What AI replaces is the tool that draws the shape, not the shape itself.
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Will Agentic Commerce Give Rise to Direct to Consumer?
Intermediaries survive by owning discovery and trust. An agent that can evaluate a supplier directly needs neither, which is a problem for everyone standing in the middle.
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