Provenance

Sources

Not everything behind this work is published. Where showing something would publish another party's internal working, the fact is recorded here and the contents are not.

Method

This is a working hypothesis, not an institutional output and not a finding. It argues from Coase's account of why firms form at all, and asks what changes when the coordination a firm exists to do becomes cheap. Rachel recalls its first prompt as a Singularity podcast on moonshots; the episode is not identified or dated here, because she has not named it and a recollection is not a citation.

How the work was developed

1. 9 June 2026First published on the record. Earliest evidenced: the published record begins this day
2. 23 June 2026Revised. The published record

One further working document, 18 August 2026. Held by Rowan.

How this record was made

1. 9 September 2026A publication record added. This page
2. 10 September 2026This provenance record added. This page

References

• The Nature of the Firm. R. H. Coase, 1 November 1937. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.tb00002.xCited on the page itself. The hypothesis argues from it rather than against it.

AI use

I use Claude Code and Codex for drafting, claim-checking against source documents, and building this page. Rachel McBride owns the stance, the argument and every claim.

Edition and verification

Edition

v2.2

First published

9 June 2026

Last verified

10 September 2026

Version note

v2.2, 10 September 2026: a provenance record added on its own page. The argument is unchanged from v2.1.

The work this verifies

The Intelligence-Centred Firm