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The Sovereign Micro-Enterprise
A Governance-First Architecture for Zero-Capital Agentic Businesses
About this work
The founding field report of the Distributed Cognitive Autonomous Infrastructure programme. It documents Hunta, a one-person, zero-capital sales and content business run by agents, and formalises four governance mechanisms: Guarded-Capability Governance, the Ledgered-Agent Pattern, the Zero-Capital Ladder and Effectuation-in-the-Loop. Merged on 29 October 2026 from the archived Research-Papers repository. Hunta was retired in October 2026.
Case disclosure
The case, Hunta, was the author's own business. It was retired in October 2026; the paper's operating claims describe it as it ran in September and October 2026 and are not independent validation of later systems.
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