Ideas & Research
Records — notes on a changing internet
Working essays on entities, structure, provenance, citability and agents. Written as exploration rather than conclusion.
- 02Why AI Needs Records, Not Just WebsitesAI · 5 minA model can read a page. It cannot easily trust one.
- 03Pages Describe Things. Records Represent Things.Concepts · 4 minThe difference between a description and a representation is maintenance.
- 04What Is a Business Record?Records · 7 minMore than a database row, and considerably more than a listing.
- 05The Record Exists Independently of the SurfaceArchitecture · 5 minOne representation, many appearances.
- 06The Human Internet and the Machine InternetThesis · 6 minTwo audiences, one substrate. Neither replaces the other.
- 07From SEO to CitabilityAI · 5 minRanking was about position. Citability is about being safe to repeat.
- 08Why AI Agents Need Authoritative InformationAgents · 6 minRetrieval tolerates ambiguity. Action does not.
- 09Business Records as Digital TwinsRecords · 5 minIndustry has modelled machines this way for a decade. Local commerce has not.
- 10The Internet After SearchThesis · 7 minNot the end of search — the end of search as the only way in.