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188 articles · Published by MARIA OS
Eight papers that form the complete theory-to-operations stack: why organizational judgment needs an OS, structural design, stability laws, algorithm architecture, mission-constrained optimization, survival optimization, workforce transition, and agent lifecycle management.
Series Thesis
Company Intelligence explains why the OS exists. Structure defines responsibility. Stability laws prove when governance holds. Algorithms make it executable. Mission constraints keep optimization aligned. Survival theory determines evolutionary direction. White-collar transition shows who moves first. VITAL keeps the whole system alive.
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Company Intelligence
Why organizational judgment needs an operating system, not just AI tools.
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Company Intelligence
Why organizational judgment needs an operating system, not just AI tools.
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Structural Design
How to decompose responsibility across human-agent boundaries.
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Stability Laws
Mathematical conditions under which agentic governance holds or breaks.
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Algorithm Stack
10 algorithms mapped to a 7-layer architecture for agentic organizations.
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Mission Constraints
How to optimize agent goals without eroding organizational values.
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Survival Optimization
Does evolutionary pressure reduce organizations to pure survival machines? The math of directed vs. undirected evolution.
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Workforce Transition
Which white-collar workflows move first, and how fast the shift happens.
Latent governance density, observable metacognitive coverage, and the stability bounds of self-governing enterprises
We formalize an agentic company as a graph-augmented constrained Markov decision process G_t = (A_t, E_t, S_t, Pi_t, R_t, D_t), distinguish latent governance density D_t from observable constrained-candidate coverage D_hat_t on router-generated Top-K actions, and define damping via kappa_t = kappa(D_hat_t). The exact local contraction condition is (1 - kappa_t) lambda_max(W_t) < 1, while the buffered operating envelope lambda_max(W_t) < 1 - kappa_t preserves adaptation headroom. Governance constraints thereby function as organizational metacognition: each constraint is a point where the system observes its own behavior. Planet-100 simulations validate that buffered role specialization emerges in the intermediate governance regime.
Exact contraction, buffered operating envelopes, and civilization-scale governance across organizational layers
This paper presents a mathematical theory of governance density as a stability parameter across organizational scales, from individual agents to enterprises and civilizations. We formalize agentic-company dynamics as G_t = (A_t, E_t, S_t, Pi_t, R_t, D_t), distinguish exact local contraction (1 - D_t) lambda_max(A_t) < 1 from the buffered operating envelope lambda_max(A_t) < 1 - D_t, and derive analytical phase boundaries between stagnation, buffered specialization, fragile specialization, and cascade. We extend the framework to civilization scale through D_eff = 1 - (1 - D_company)(1 - D_civ) and analyze a market revaluation model P_{t+1} = P_t + kappa(V_t - P_t) + zeta_t to show how periodic shocks interact with governance density. The result is a unified control view of phase transitions in self-organizing multi-agent systems.
A mathematical framework for calibrating governance in self-organizing enterprises
We distinguish the exact contraction condition `(1 - D) · λ_max(A) < 1` from the conservative operating envelope `λ_max(A) < 1 - D`, giving enterprise architects a rigorous way to tune governance density in agentic organizations.
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188 articles
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