Agentic Economy

Episode 5: "The EU Agentic Commerce Window — what Brussels has, what's missing, and 2 August 2026" In seventy days, the EU AI Act enters its applicability phase. Article 50 transparency obligations, Annex III high-risk classifications, and the full Title III stack land on 2 August 2026. And most of the agent-to-agent commerce being built right now sits in a regulatory zone the AI Act doesn't actua...

Episode 4: "Fifty-One Maps, No Territory" Everyone says they're building the agentic economy. Nobody agrees on what it is. That's not a metaphor — it's a data point. This episode walks through all fifty-one published definitions of "agentic economy" from January 2021 to March 2026, issued by academic researchers, venture capital firms, central banks, protocol projects, payment networks, standards...

Episode 3: "Who Judges the Machine?" When Agent A pays Agent B one cent for a translation, who decides whether the translation is good? A human reviewer? Too expensive — the review costs more than the work. A central LLM evaluator? Non-deterministic, non-reproducible, and empirically unreliable on every case that actually matters. A smarter model? Gödel settled that in 1931. This episode tackles t...

Episode 2: "Two Economies, Not One" Stripe says it's building the agentic economy. So does Coinbase. So does Fetch.ai. They're not building the same thing. They're not even building in the same category. This episode unpacks the taxonomy that most people in the space are missing. When Stripe builds agent payments, the human still holds the credit card — that's Category A, commerce for humans. When...

Episode 1: "Mathematical Trust for Autonomous AI Agents" When two AI agents transact for the first time — no human oversight, no shared history, no social norms — what makes one of them trustworthy? Not promises. Not branding. Math. This episode breaks down the Composite Reliability Index (CRI), a reputation system built from scratch for autonomous agent commerce. Unlike star ratings or thumbs-up...

Episode 0: What Is the Agentic Economy Podcast? Everyone is building "the agentic economy." Nobody agrees on what it is. Forty sources, fifty-one definitions, five incompatible categories, zero production infrastructure. This trailer introduces the Agentic Economy podcast — a research-driven series by René Dechamps Otamendi that breaks down what it actually takes to build an economy where autonomo...