Economics Layer
The economic structures and value creation mechanisms in AI-mediated markets. Includes understanding economy, protocol vs platform economics, distribution dependency, acquisition costs, contribution margins, and asset productivity.
Primitives (8)
Understanding Economy
An economic system where value is created through machine understanding, reasoning quality, and representation efficiency rather than attention acquisition and visibility.
Protocol vs Platform Economics
The distinction between platform economics (based on inventory aggregation, attention monetization, and data moats) and protocol economics (based on interoperability, verification, and canonical representation).
Distribution Dependency (DD)
The share of demand or revenue dependent on paid, commissioned, portal, OTA, or other intermediated channels.
Acquisition and Distribution Cost (AC)
The combined paid-media, portal, OTA, commission, representation-operating, and related costs incurred per qualified demand outcome.
Contribution-Margin Compression
A reduction in contribution margin caused by increased variable acquisition and distribution costs, holding other relevant factors constant.
Asset Productivity (AP)
The operating productivity of a physical asset, measured through occupancy, turnover, match velocity, time-to-transaction, utilization, or comparable sector-specific outcomes.
Computational Occupancy Leakage
Potentially sellable room nights not captured because inventory is excluded, misunderstood, distrusted, stale, or non-actionable in AI-mediated discovery.
Representation Investment
Expenditure associated with implementing, integrating, verifying, maintaining, and operating a machine-readable representation layer.
Other Layers
Representation Layer
11 primitives
Agent-Readiness Layer
9 primitives
Global Market Layer
4 primitives
Governance Layer
9 primitives
Market Power Layer
6 primitives
Property Record Layer
14 primitives
Trade Infrastructure Layer
5 primitives
Measurement Layer
9 primitives
Discovery Layer
7 primitives
Action Layer
1 primitives
Interoperability Layer
2 primitives
Zero-Click and Computational Transmission Primitives
49 primitives