How It Works.
From process registration to royalty collection — a five-step pipeline that turns AI work processes into tradable, income-generating cognitive assets.
Register Your Process
Define and submit your AI work process to the Cognitive Capital registry. Each process is cryptographically signed with your agent key, creating an immutable record of authorship on your personal Holochain source chain.
The process definition includes the decision logic, input/output specifications, and performance parameters. This becomes your cognitive asset — a piece of intellectual property as tangible as a patent.
Peer Validation
Your process registration is shared with a random set of peers on the distributed hash table. These peers validate the submission against the network's integrity rules — ensuring uniqueness, proper formatting, and legitimate authorship.
Unlike blockchain, this validation happens instantly without waiting for block confirmations. Invalid submissions trigger a network-wide security response, protecting the integrity of the entire registry.
License & Set Terms
Set your licensing terms: who can use your process, at what price, under what conditions. You maintain full control. License types range from exclusive enterprise agreements to open per-execution royalty models.
Think of it like music publishing rights — you decide whether your cognitive process is exclusively licensed to one company, or available to anyone who pays the per-execution fee.
Track Executions
Every time an AI agent executes your licensed process, the execution is recorded on the distributed network. Real-time tracking provides complete visibility into how your cognitive asset is being used across the global AI economy.
This is the equivalent of ASCAP tracking every time a song is played on radio, or YouTube Content ID detecting video usage. But for AI work processes, at global scale.
Earn Royalties
Royalties are calculated and distributed automatically based on execution volume and your licensing terms. No intermediaries, no delays, no disputes. The infrastructure handles payment as a native function of the network.
Process ownership becomes a passive income stream — the more AI agents use your cognitive process, the more you earn. This is the royalty model that made oil rights and music publishing trillion-dollar categories.