Protocol InstituteResearch log: AI Native Data Operations
The working thesis behind the group's 2027 research, revised as sessions, cases, and protocol watching add evidence. Earlier versions stay in this item's changelog.
Premises
We treat these as observations that could turn out partial or wrong.
Premise: Abundant cognition.
Reading and writing both get cheap. Processing unstructured data (PDFs, rate sheets, forms) and producing software cost a fraction of what they did.
Premise: Distributed agency.
Models act, and they run as many instances at once. Swarms of agents show up wherever work is done.
Premise: Mediation.
Information increasingly flows through models: people and agents find, read, and exchange it by way of LLMs and the protocols that connect them.
Log
- 27 September 2026. Blyg started. Ten sessions from the past year imported from the Protocol Institute meeting archive as a baseline.
- 27 September 2026. First outside corroboration: Pat Grady's (Sequoia) 24 September talk to the Boston College investment committee frames this wave as a revolution in computation, not communication, which supports abundant cognition. It dates long-horizon agents to November 2025 (distributed agency) and describes AI-native firms moving toward a "network of agents" for internal information flow (mediation). It says nothing about coordination between many agents, which is where this project goes further.
- 27 September 2026. Imported the rest of the archive: all 39 sessions since February 2023 are now on the blyg, six of them with raw recording notes.