Another Day, Another Paper

 In keeping with our tradition of publishing the ugliest content we possibly can—and doing so consistently—People, Ideas & Objects is pleased to announce the third paper in our 21st Century Marketplace Vision research series.

From the outset, it became apparent that the concepts underlying Synallagi had grown too broad and too interconnected to be presented effectively in a single document. Attempting to do so would produce a paper so large and complex that much of its meaning would be lost. Instead, we have chosen to publish this work as a series of focused papers, allowing readers to absorb the concepts incrementally and build a deeper understanding of where Synallagi is headed with Autonomous Asynchronous Transaction Orchestration.

This third paper examines the role of our user community’s service provider organizations. The subject has been divided into two papers, with this publication representing Part 1 of 2.

Our service providers are the operational foundation of Synallagi. They combine their tacit industry knowledge with the explicit knowledge embedded within the software, delivering both to the North American oil & gas industry. Their role extends beyond implementation and support. They are responsible for continuously refining business processes, developing innovations, and ensuring that producers realize the full value of Synallagi.

Like members of our user community, service providers participate in a performance-based compensation model that rewards measurable value creation. Performance incentives remain persistent with the individual, and shared with our user community members, encouraging long-term innovation and continuous improvement. These incentives are objectively calculated through the Synallagi Targeting Framework, which measures the economic value generated by service provider innovations and allocates compensation according to the benefits realized by producers. The Synallagi Targeting Framework will be the subject of a future paper in the 21st Century Marketplace Vision series.

This paper may also be read in conjunction with the accompanying Appendix 1 Our User Community Compensation:

To make the material more approachable, we will publish the paper in sections over the coming weeks, allowing readers to absorb the concepts in manageable portions should they prefer a more gradual approach.

At the same time, we are expanding the Synallagi wiki to distinguish between what has traditionally been the Business Specification and the next stage of development—the integrated Technical Specification. Increasingly, these two perspectives cannot be separated. The technical architecture has become an integral component of the business architecture, particularly as Artificial Intelligence, automation, orchestration, governance, and marketplace design become inseparable elements of the overall system.

These technical specifications will be published alongside these research papers and incorporated into the wiki as development progresses. And you can be assured I’ll never forget about the podcasts, which somehow figure out what it is I’m saying.