The Capital-Standard is dead. For centuries, money was a proxy for human labor. But in an age where autonomous agents perform the work, the proxy has broken. We are measuring a post-labor reality with pre-intelligent accounting.
TIME is the new primitive. We don't measure what we build; we measure what we liberate.
Traditional economics is a system for allocating scarcity. But intelligence is becoming abundant.
GDP counts production, but ignores the Time Dividend.
Revenue counts transactions, but ignores human exhaustion.
Efficiency counts output, but ignores the quality of the life returned.
When an AI saves you an hour but gives it back as fragmented, low-quality distractions, you haven't been extended — you've been captured. We call this Temporal Entropy.
The TIME-Score is the first audited metric designed to measure the true human value of autonomous systems. It is built on three mathematical pillars:
We measure the raw hours returned to the human soul.
Human time required minus Autonomous compute time consumed.
Not all hours are equal. An hour returned for deep creativity or healing is a QATU. An hour lost to an engagement loop is zero-value.
We penalize Fragmented Time. If a system returns your life in 30-second bursts of interruption, its TSNR is low. We value the machines that give us back the Silence of the Self.
We are building the infrastructure for a post-labor economy. The CTS is a protocol where every compute-hour must be justified by the human-hour it liberates.
A transparent ledger of time-liberation.
Shifting the North Star from engagement to agency.
A framework for distributing the Time-Dividend of AI.
In the autonomous economy, your agent does the work. But how does it price itself? Per token? Per API call? Per seat? Those are proxies from the labor era. They don't connect to the value delivered.
TIME gives your agent a voice. It measures what it did, and it prices what it's worth.
Hook your telemetry into the TIME engine. Every task your system performs gets measured — time saved, signal quality, compute cost, outcome delivered. The engine returns a price in real time. Your agent earns what it liberates. Not a flat fee. Not a guess. A measurement.
Cost data. Outcome data. The human baseline. What did this task cost you in compute. What happened. What would a human have taken.
The price to charge. Your margin. QATUs generated. A running TIME Score that updates with every interaction.
"I saved you 3.2 hours at a TSNR of 14. That's 2.1 QATUs. Pay me." Not a guess. A measurement.