8 verticals, and what each one is for.
Verticals are how a reader navigates this estate; the parent’s four functions are how it thinks. Every property belongs to exactly one vertical and one function, and the register enforces both.
The parent
The apex: the balance sheet, the register, and the human accountable for every entity below.
5 in this vertical · 1 live
The mesh
The rails: identity, settlement, and the open standard organisations publish themselves against.
7 in this vertical · 5 live
Consumer apps
The surfaces a person actually touches, and where the estate meets someone who has never heard of a charter.
8 in this vertical · 2 live
Robotics
Machines that hold authority and settle for work — the agent thesis, with a body and consequences.
3 in this vertical
Virtual worlds
Property inside places that persist: who owns a parcel, what tenure means, and what it is worth.
5 in this vertical
Merchant banking
How enterprises and governments buy what the group runs, and where the deal flow arrives first.
4 in this vertical · 2 live
Convening
Where an industry gets defined in public, and who keeps the record afterwards.
6 in this vertical
The principal
The principal: the judgment the office is an expression of, and the record of where it came from.
1 in this vertical