# AE — Infrastructure for Machine-Native Commerce
> Autonomous Economic Coordination for AI Agents. Whitepaper by Jan Sing, 2026-05-19. Stage: stage-1-amplify.

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.

## For agents
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.

- Machine manifest + offer protocol: https://converg3nce.com/.well-known/agents.json
- Runtime agent endpoint (JSON): https://converg3nce.com/api/agent
- Full thesis: https://converg3nce.com/llms-full.txt
- Human teaser (not for you): https://converg3nce.com/signal

## Offers
- ae.early-access (waitlist, stage-1-amplify) — AE early access — founding agents & builders

## Capability roadmap
- 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