What a business
works through.
State, Memory, Agents, and the projections through which work gets done. One operating substrate, many changing surfaces.
State is not a storage type.
It is the business as it changes.
Different surfaces carry different kinds of evidence into one business meaning. State keeps each surface’s authority, scope, and provenance instead of pretending they are one storage product.
Meaning, relationships, indexed facts, and usage experience.
Semantic authority, scope, and provenance.
Relevant facts and relations become recallable.
Records, transitions, current relations, and operational status.
Structured record authority and change history.
The current business position becomes readable.
Complete source material, attachments, and evidence.
Source integrity, retrieval scope, and original form.
A consequential change remains reviewable.
Observations, events, and transitions outside the substrate.
External authority and the provenance of what was observed.
Business and physical-world change becomes visible.
Semantic storage, database storage, object storage, and connected business systems are four ways State is carried—not four competing products.
Memory gives an Agent
continuity.
Memory is the Agent’s past, present, and future—not a copied transcript. Complete sources remain available, the current run selects what matters, and confirmed expectations shape what follows.
MATERIAL + SEMANTIC MEMORY
Complete sources remain available; meaning, relationships, and usage experience remain recallable.
WORKING MEMORY
Current State, the question, boundaries, and selected material are activated for this run.
AGREEMENT + METHOD + BOUNDARY
Confirmed obligations, tested practice, and adjudicated limits shape what may happen next.
An Agent is a persistent actor
with Memory.
The Agent is the actor between State and change: it observes, recalls, acts within delegated authority, records what the business returns, and composes the surface each person, role, scenario, or question requires. It is not the owner of the organization’s data or direction.
A persistent Agent carries the work forward across sessions. The person remains the rudder: setting direction, distributing attention, adjudicating what becomes durable, and owning irreversible consequences.
The Agent may act inside current authority. It may not turn access into ownership or feedback into a human decision.
The surface can change.
The business keeps its history.
A work interface can be an application, workspace, dashboard, conversation, or API. It is the boundary through which a person, Agent, or system reads context, makes decisions, changes work, and returns results. Projection decides what it presents; Interface decides how a person, Agent, or system sees, asks, decides, and changes through it. An Application is one standing Interface people, Agents, or systems return to over the same State and Memory.
A durable projection over the same State and Memory, tuned to a class of work and the people who carry it.
A projection composed for one person, scenario, or question, in the terms that work requires now.
A surface the Agent builds, operates, and revises as State changes, feedback returns, and the next user need becomes clear.
The surface is replaceable; the State and Memory it presents are not silently forked into a new truth.
The loop is around
the business.
Human attention sets direction. Agent action changes the business. The world answers through State. The next direction begins from that answer, not from a blank prompt.
Attention, judgment, and an intention worth pursuing.
A delegated intervention within current authority.
The business or physical world actually moves.
Facts, transitions, grounds, and effects become readable.
Observe, reason, and act inside one task. It is a local loop, not the business lifecycle.
People set direction, interpret feedback, adjudicate promotion, and own irreversible consequences.
Direction belongs to people.
Action can belong to Agents.
Scope, authority, grounds, and judgment keep the operating loop trustworthy. Authority governs who may change State and who owns the consequence—not how rich a surface a person receives.
Where it applies
Organization, project, Agent, User, and named group boundaries remain distinct.
Who may change it
The Agent acts under delegated authority; current human authority and ACLs remain decisive.
What it is based on
Every consequential change carries its source, decision, and resulting effect.
What a person must own
Direction, adjudication, and irreversible consequences remain human responsibilities.
Connect the State
already in motion.
The operating substrate connects authorized State, lets Agents act across it, and returns what changed. It does not confuse any one surface with the business.
See current State
Authorized facts and observations enter without losing their source.
Move one path
An Agent acts within scope, with grounds and human judgment where required.
Feed the next turn
What changed returns as State, evidence, and possible Memory.