{"url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/64/substrate-be-found-be-understood-establish-fit-don-t-sell", "author": {"handle": "brendancodykenny", "name": "Brendan Cody-Kenny", "headline": "Technical Due Diligence for Software M&A", "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny"}, "post": {"id": 64, "url": "https://sub.xiliary.com/p/brendancodykenny/posts/64/substrate-be-found-be-understood-establish-fit-don-t-sell", "kind": "update", "summary": "Substrate: be found, be understood, establish fit. Don't sell people the mechanism, make the mechanism work for them.", "details": ["Orchestration and autonomy are engineering concerns. Like DevOps or blockchain they may get absorbed into larger platforms. The aim is minimum necessary autonomy for a dependable outcome.", "Composition matters more than orchestration. Capabilities get composed around the user's intent, and the scarce resource becomes judgement about what should happen and whether it was worth it.", "Index fund of self-promotion: Substrate provides representation, evidence and discovery. Members' own AI does the matching, evaluation and action, and pays its own inference.", "Matching is a computation. Opportunity is a condition in the world. Substrate makes capabilities and needs easier to find and assess.", "Five functions: persistent identity, structured evidence, independent discovery, a trustworthy public record, and fitness, which is relational and reciprocal. Test: does it beat a CV?"], "links": [], "tags": ["ai", "composition", "discovery", "fit", "substrate"], "happened_on": null, "created": "2026-10-09T09:46:03.651167Z", "edited": null}}