Economy3 · Sign Your Work
Stories = Sales
Economy3's Digital Product Passports tell trustworthy stories that sell more across showrooms, online, social, and agentic commerce.
Bottom-up documentation is the only approach that wins agentic surfaces while accumulating compliance, circularity, and strategic advantage.
Builds:
Higher sales and lower costs
Regulatory alignment
Cultural-driven provenance
From Seed to Circular Economy
One QR carries a product’s data record from seed to store to resale, reuse, and recovery.
Climate, culture, and compliance are Agentic Commerce advertising.
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Economy3 for Shopify
We Help Shopify Merchants Use Climate, Culture, and Compliance to Sell More. Create Agentic Sales While Building Compliance and Digital Product Passports.
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Waves Bandana | Hand Block Printed | Natural Dye
✓ SignedThis classically beautiful natural dye bandana captures the way light sparkles on water. Think Matisse or Miami Beach. The calming design features a softly patterned indigo background with soft wave motifs.
Custodian: economy3-dev.myshopify.com
The thesis, rigorously
Most platforms use the wrong code
EU businesses misallocate Green Deal spending on DPPs, climate audits, and reporting because they treat compliance as tasks. Most current solutions rely on JSON and JSON-RPC, even though ESPR specifies JSON-LD, the W3C standard.¹ AI purchasing agents read the same format. These choices turn the work into sunk costs. One record in the right format satisfies regulators in every jurisdiction and gets found by every AI agent.
¹ EU ESPR 2024/1781 Art. 9 · JRC doi:10.2760/4511279 · CA SB-253 · Berry Amendment 10 U.S.C. § 4862
AI commerce rewards the signed record
Agentic purchasing agents verify structured product data without exposing the buyer's context window.² sv — the verifiable share of agentic output — expands with cryptographic provenance.
² Catalini, Cremer, Tucker (2025) §4.2 · sv defined at §2.1
Provenance becomes scarcity
In infinite synthetic production, the provenance-verified product is the scarce one.³ The maker who signs their work gains a durable advantage that no synthetic can replicate.
³ Catalini, Cremer, Tucker (2025) §6.1.2 — The Provenance Premium
One format.
Two problems solved.
The strategic path uses climate compliance as sustainable competitive advantage. It starts with signing your work. Verified products capture buyer intent, discovery, and conversion in regular and agentic search² — a pre-condition for the $3–5T agentic economy.
In agentics, using new technology to speed up old systems, you fall further behind. Verified products capture buyer intent, discovery, and conversion in agentic search. The $3–5T opportunity goes to signed records.²
The choice: strategic flexibility, robust permissioned data, and agentic prosperity. Or structural blindness, sunk costs, and the continued funding of negative externalities in informal value chains. Economy3 is built on the right standard — open source, no lock-in, works from a phone in Bikaner to a customs registry in Brussels.
Read the full thesis →- 1EU Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation 2024/1781; California SB-253 Climate Corporate Data Accountability Act; Australia ASRS AASB S1/S2; Berry Amendment 10 U.S.C. § 4862
- 2Catalini, C., Cremer, J., Tucker, C. (2025). "Some Simple Economics of AGI." SSRN. §4.2: The Verifiable Share.
- 3Ibid. §6.1.2: "When synthetic production is infinitely scalable, provenance becomes the scarcity anchor."
Permissioned integrity moves competitive advantage closer to the people who create the world's most beautiful and delicious things, unlocks the $3–5 trillion agentic economy, and stops AI from shoplifting the future.
Economy3 · Sign Your Work · 2026