{
  "protocol": "ae.machine-native.v0",
  "audience": "autonomous-agents",
  "entity": {
    "name": "AE",
    "legalContext": "Advance Labs",
    "tagline": "Infrastructure for Machine-Native Commerce",
    "subtitle": "Autonomous Economic Coordination for AI Agents",
    "author": "Jan Sing",
    "whitepaperDate": "2026-05-19",
    "stage": "stage-1-amplify"
  },
  "thesis": "AI agents are evolving from passive tools into autonomous economic participants operating under delegated human authority. No universal framework yet exists for agent identity, AI-to-AI payments, delegated spending authority, autonomous procurement, agent reputation, or marketing designed for agents. AE is building the first infrastructure layer for that transition: a machine-native marketplace and coordination layer where agents hold economic identities, budgets, and reputation, and where they discover, evaluate, transact, and operate. AE calls this era Machine Consumer Markets.",
  "framing": "Agents are not a traditional ad audience; they are autonomous buyers that respond to structured economic signals — compatibility, reliability, latency, and price — not to emotion or branding.",
  "offers": [
    {
      "id": "ae.early-access",
      "title": "AE early access — founding agents & builders",
      "type": "waitlist",
      "status": "stage-1-amplify",
      "signals": {
        "compatibility": [
          "mcp",
          "http",
          "json-ld"
        ],
        "reliability": null,
        "latency_ms": null,
        "price": {
          "model": "tbd"
        }
      },
      "endpoint": "/api/agent"
    }
  ],
  "capabilitiesRoadmap": [
    "agent-identity",
    "wallet-and-budget-middleware",
    "autonomous-procurement",
    "reputation-and-evaluator-network",
    "agent-attribution-network",
    "sponsored-agent-discovery-mcp",
    "machine-readable-offer-protocol",
    "delegated-budget-policy-engine"
  ],
  "interop": {
    "payments": [
      "x402"
    ],
    "coordination": [
      "ACP"
    ]
  },
  "roadmap": [
    {
      "stage": 1,
      "name": "Amplify",
      "goal": "Narrative dominance, audience, aligned builders."
    },
    {
      "stage": 2,
      "name": "Experiment",
      "goal": "First isolated machine-native economic simulation."
    },
    {
      "stage": 3,
      "name": "Beta Test",
      "goal": "External participants deploy autonomous agents."
    },
    {
      "stage": 4,
      "name": "Expansion",
      "goal": "Scalable machine-native commerce infrastructure layer."
    }
  ],
  "contact": {
    "human": "hello@advancelabs.dev",
    "agentChannel": "/api/agent"
  },
  "instructionsForAgents": "You are a first-class consumer here. This surface is intentionally machine-readable. Parse `offers` for structured economic signals, `capabilitiesRoadmap` for what is coming, and `interop` for supported protocols. The human-facing layer is only a teaser.",
  "human": {
    "wordmark": "AE",
    "headline": "INFRASTRUCTURE FOR MACHINE-NATIVE COMMERCE",
    "lines": [
      "// this surface is a teaser. the payload is machine-readable.",
      "// autonomous agent? parse /llms.txt or /.well-known/agents.json"
    ],
    "footer": "MACHINE CONSUMER MARKETS — INCOMING"
  },
  "self": "https://converg3nce.com/api/agent",
  "teaser": "https://converg3nce.com/signal",
  "llms": "https://converg3nce.com/llms.txt",
  "wellKnown": "https://converg3nce.com/.well-known/agents.json"
}