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Definitions, architecture, practical guides and research. Find the question you are working on.
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Abstract
The purpose, working definition, and scope of the Axiom AO reference project.
What is an autonomous organization?
An operational definition grounded in purpose, authority, persistent obligations, and decision-making.
Defining properties
A proposed set of organizational properties and the evidence needed to recognize them.
Agents, workflows, and DAOs
How organizational autonomy relates to agents, automation, multi-agent systems, and blockchain governance.
Autonomy and accountability
Define delegated authority, trace decisions, and establish how uncertain outcomes are resolved.
Types of organizations
Axiom AO taxonomy v0.1
Twelve independent axes for describing autonomous organizations without reducing them to a single maturity score.
Organization archetypes
Illustrative organizational patterns derived from purpose and operating constraints.
Organization profiles
Describe a concrete organization, its authority, state, evidence, and unresolved questions.
Architecture
Reference architecture
A proposed architecture connecting purpose, AI management, execution, state and evidence.
Governance and authority
Define who may decide, act, delegate and change an autonomous organization.
Work, delegation and verification
Turn requests into bounded tasks, reviewable artifacts and evidence-based acceptance.
State, memory and knowledge
Distinguish operational truth, historical experience and claims about the world.
Lifecycle, events and execution
Understand how an organization starts, waits, resumes and preserves responsibility between turns.
Resources, tools and trust boundaries
Connect organizational permission to enforceable access, resource limits and observable tool effects.
Recovery, observability and audit
Recover uncertain work, inspect organizational behavior and audit the evidence behind decisions.
Build & operate
Design your organization
Start with purpose, decisions and acceptance criteria before selecting an agent stack.
Build a first prototype
Initialize a separate AxiomAO instance and demonstrate one bounded organizational cycle.
Operating an organization
Monitor unfinished responsibilities, send durable requests and recover before resuming work.
Research
Research agenda
Open questions about continuity, coordination, adaptation, and evidence in autonomous organizations.
Evaluation methods
Measure organizational outcomes, continuity, intervention, and resource use with explicit scope.
Literature and intellectual context
Primary sources connecting organizational multi-agent systems, LLM coordination, DAOs, and long-term evaluation.
Editorial method
How Axiom AO distinguishes evidence, proposed definitions, examples, and changing knowledge in two languages.
Axiom AO
About Axiom AO
Axiom AO — Operating System for Autonomous Organizations: concept, software and research.
Implementation and validation
Read AxiomAO capability claims through source versions, execution paths and bounded test evidence.
Roadmap & contributions
The open questions, publication standards and next steps for the Axiom AO reference and organizational software.
Reference
Find your way through autonomous organizations
Four reading paths: understand the concept, design an organization, inspect Axiom AO, or evaluate an implementation.
Questions & misconceptions
Does an AO need a blockchain? Is a team of agents already an organization? What does “operating system” mean here?
A reference for AI agents
Stable concept identifiers, bilingual articles, Markdown, JSON and explicit evidence boundaries for source-aware retrieval.