Thesis

Agency now moves through data, markets, institutions, and the physical world.

A field view of AI agents, software agency, agentic commerce, and the institutional systems that must recognize what software is allowed to do.

Five questions

The first frame of the field.

A process can commit a company, draw on credentials, and leave no person in the room to answer for the act.

A goal becomes a chain of choices made without the context that normally tells people where the boundary is.

One operator can coordinate customers, suppliers, research, finance, and support without building the organization that once made it possible.

A decision moves through dependency chains faster than the institution watching it can form a picture.

Capability is climbing faster than the systems that know how to recognize, refuse, insure, or discipline it.