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title: Provenance · The Intelligence-Centred Firm
author: Rachel McBride
collection: Provenance
source: https://ip.rowanadvisory.co.nz/intelligence-centred-firm/provenance/
version: v2.2
as_of: 10 September 2026
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# Provenance

The Intelligence-Centred Firm · v2.2 · last verified 10 September 2026

## 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

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

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

## How this record was made

- **9 September 2026** A publication record added. This page
- **10 September 2026** This 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.x  
  Cited 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** https://ip.rowanadvisory.co.nz/intelligence-centred-firm/

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Rowan Advisory · Provenance · The Intelligence-Centred Firm · v2.2 · https://ip.rowanadvisory.co.nz/intelligence-centred-firm/provenance/
Written by Rachel McBride. Quote with attribution. Do not republish in full.