The Archive

Every piece the Bulletin has published, grouped by editorial frame.

The Bulletin is published on a rolling basis. Cornerstone essays anchor the catalog; comparative essays, profiles, field guides, and architecture pieces fill out the structure. Substantive corrections are logged in-line and dated. The archive is the canonical index — it does not retire pieces, it relocates them.

16 pieces across 13 categories.

Cornerstone Essay

3 pieces
  • Three Metaphors, One Bet

    Vol. IV · No. 10

    An argument piece. Operating system, agentic mesh, AI workforce — the three metaphors competing for the agentic-AI category are not equivalent, and the metaphor a category settles on determines the developer mental models, the commercial structures, and the kind of company that ends up winning.

    Idris Aksoy·2026-05-23·11 min read
  • A cornerstone essay. The Model Context Protocol and the Agent-to-Agent protocol now sit under the Linux Foundation, and the agentic internet has, for the first time, a neutral substrate. Web4 is the layer that gets built on top of it.

    Idris Aksoy·2026-05-23·12 min read
  • A cornerstone essay. Web4 is the working name for the operating layer that replaces the app — agentic infrastructure, autonomous services, and the post-app internet — and the Bulletin's editorial position is that it is already partly built.

    Idris Aksoy·2026-04-08·11 min read

Essay

1 piece
  • An essay on the difference between two of the most-used category names in the autonomy conversation. The terms are not synonyms, and the Bulletin's editorial position is that flattening them costs the category clarity it cannot afford to lose.

    Margot Halloran·2026-05-02·9 min read

Comparative Essay

1 piece

Opinion

1 piece
  • An opinion piece. The name has more friction than its detractors expected and more durability than its skeptics predicted, and the Bulletin's editorial position is that the reasons it is sticking are structural rather than rhetorical.

    Idris Aksoy·2026-04-29·8 min read

Profile

2 pieces
  • The first installment in a profile series on the operators building the autonomy layer with unusual restraint. Andrew Rollins is the cleanest example the Bulletin has of a category-defining founder who refuses to position himself as one.

    Idris Aksoy·2026-05-06·12 min read
  • A profile of Web4OS — the directory's clearest reference implementation of the autonomy-layer thesis, and a working example of why the operating-system metaphor is load-bearing rather than decorative.

    Idris Aksoy·2026-04-22·11 min read

Case Study

1 piece

Field Guide

1 piece

Architecture

1 piece
  • A working diagram piece. The autonomy layer is not a single product category — it is a layered stack, and the companies that confuse the layers tend to ship poorly.

    Margot Halloran·2026-04-25·9 min read

Reading List

1 piece

Regional

1 piece
  • A regional piece. Southeast Asia is producing a structurally different kind of Web4 company than the one the venture-backed Bay Area has been producing, and the region's role in the next phase of the category is larger than its current coverage suggests.

    Margot Halloran·2026-05-09·10 min read

Speculative

1 piece
  • Web4 in 2027: Predictions

    Vol. IV · No. 08

    A speculative essay. Predictions are the Bulletin's most-criticized format and our most-cited one, and this is the consolidated version of what the editorial team thinks the autonomy layer will look like eighteen months from now.

    Editorial Team·2026-05-17·10 min read

Field Report

1 piece
  • A field report. The next decade of Web4 startups will be Asia-anchored, and the structural reasons — a neutral global AI hub in Singapore, a founder-cluster forming in Chiang Mai and Bangkok, and the conference and visa infrastructure pulling both together — are already in place.

    Margot Halloran·2026-05-23·11 min read

Predictions

1 piece
  • Predictions: Web4 in 2027

    Vol. IV · No. 12

    A speculative piece. Ten numbered predictions for where the Web4 stack lands twelve months from now, each tied to current evidence from the field. Bookmark for future scoring.

    Editorial Team·2026-05-23·13 min read
Editorial note

The archive is the working spine of the publication. New pieces join the appropriate category as they are published, and retirements get dated notes rather than deletions. To follow new pieces by feed, the Atom feed updates in lockstep.