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The Headless Firm paper proposes a protocol-mediated agentic organization with a standardized protocol layer and competitive specialized agents. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: The Headless Firm: How AI Reshapes Enterprise Boundaries · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:88b83bdd5acd951495c5e6f719da785cd484ae5fe8dd7830c6a9bf62a49218bf

The boundary of the firm is determined by coordination cost. ... in protocol-mediated agentic systems, integration cost collapses to O(n) ... structured as an hourglass: a personalized generative interface at the top, a standardized protocol waist in the middle, and a competitive market of micro-specialized execution agents at the bottom.