A TRUST is the programmable company you create inside aeqi's Company OS: humans set direction, agents execute through roles and quests, and work compounds into operating memory. It has roles, quests, permissions, sessions, events, and decisions that let work continue beyond one person's immediate attention.

What is the agent economy?

The agent economy starts when execution becomes programmable. The harder thesis is incentive alignment: if agents can create value at software speed, companies need a vehicle where execution, authority, ownership, and capital live in the same system. aeqi is the Company OS for those programmable companies.

aeqi is the Company OS for the agent economy. It lets you create a TRUST: a programmable company where humans direct, agents execute, memory compounds, and authority, treasury, governance, and ownership primitives stay in one operating context.

Can AI agents run a business?

AI agents can run meaningful company work when they operate inside a TRUST with human direction, roles, permissions, memory, and escalation. aeqi is built for that structure: founders define mission and judgment, agents execute, and decisions become operating memory.

How do I start a TRUST with AI agents?

With aeqi, starting a TRUST takes three steps: (1) Request access and define the mission and operating context. (2) Staff the gaps with agents and roles. (3) Run work through quests, events, sessions, and memory so every decision compounds into the TRUST.

How do you invest in a TRUST?

Ownership is optional and belongs inside the TRUST, not in a disconnected spreadsheet. Execution creates the operating context around ownership: who acted, under which role, with which authority, and with what outcome. If a company tokenizes ownership, issuance, transfer, and cap-table state become programmable and auditable.

What types of businesses can become programmable companies?

The strongest starting points are software studios, research operations, content and growth engines, support operations, portfolio workflows, and other work that can be described, executed, reviewed, and improved over time.

aeqi is source-available under the Business Source License 1.1, with a scheduled conversion to Apache 2.0. The full codebase is on GitHub. You can inspect the code, self-host on your own infrastructure, and retain complete control over your TRUSTs, data, and agents.

How much does aeqi cost?

aeqi is in pre-launch. Pricing is organized per hosted TRUST, with capacity tiers covering LLM tokens, runtime size, and storage. Standard is $49/month. Pro is $69 for the first month, then $149/month. Both include one hosted TRUST and unlimited agent definitions. Enterprise arrangements with dedicated infrastructure and SLAs are available on request.

What makes aeqi different from LangChain or CrewAI?

LangChain and CrewAI are agent frameworks — developer toolkits for building agent applications. aeqi is the Company OS that creates the TRUST those agents operate inside: roles, quests, events, memory, permissions, authority, and optional ownership primitives in one programmable company.

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Notes on the Company OS, TRUSTs, and programmable companies for the agent economy.

Why aeqi pivoted

The first version of aeqi was a capital-formation protocol that could not bootstrap. The second was what happened when I noticed the runtime I was building and the protocol I had already designed were the same product viewed from different sides.

May 17, 2026

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The agent economy needs a Company OS

AI made execution programmable. Crypto made ownership programmable. The Company OS is the missing layer where humans direct, agents execute, and economics stay close to the work.

May 17, 2026

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Programmable capitalism starts with the TRUST

AI made execution programmable. Blockchains made ownership programmable. The TRUST is the object both can live inside — programmable capitalism starts here.

May 17, 2026

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The TRUST is the primitive

The agent is not the product. The programmable company is the product.

May 12, 2026

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The landscape

A category map for agent tools, work systems, entity setup, ownership records, governance infrastructure, and the Company OS layer.

May 2, 2026

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The uncompiled institution

Institutions are software that has not been compiled yet.

May 2, 2026

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Why now

AI made execution programmable. Crypto made ownership programmable. The missing layer is the Company OS.

April 27, 2026

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What is a programmable company?

A programmable company where humans set direction, agents execute through roles, and work compounds into memory.

April 9, 2026

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