SEO is dead. Long live discovery.

Search is collapsing into agents. Brands, publishers, and tools now compete to be chosen by an agent, not ranked by a crawler. This is open research on what comes next.

The agent-era stack

Four layers. Every artifact on this site slots into one.

Human Presentation Layerwhat the user sees

Trust & Verification Layerwhy the agent trusts you

Agent Interface Layerhow the agent reads & acts

Economic Layerhow value flows back

/timeline

how we got here, where we are, where it goes

/dialogues

signed conversations — thinking in public, with friction

/specs

open protocols for agent-era discovery

/studies

data on how agents actually pick

/tools

reference implementations, OSS