Value-First Markets

Value Creation Protocol

An open protocol for value creation in AI-native organizations. Read the spec, cite it, run it on your own work. v0.1, draft.

The Value Creation Protocol is an open protocol for value creation in AI-native organizations - what creates value, for whom, and why.

It is published as a peer to two other context layers rather than a layer above them. MCP is the machine-context layer: how AI reaches tools, data and models. HCP is the human-context layer: intent, authority and history. VCP is the value-creation layer. Each addresses something the others do not reach.

The whole specification is readable without an account:

  • The encoding stack - Lexicon, VCP-Lang and the Value Graph: the layers that compile a value statement into an addressable graph the protocol can operate on.
  • The methodology canon - long-form chapters on the operating model AI-native organizations adopt across customer, operations and finance.
  • The manifestos - position pieces on why industrial-age growth and sales vocabulary cannot carry an AI-native organization.
  • A glossary covering the protocol stack, the core beliefs, the unified views, the Value Path stages and the twelve traps.
  • A search that reaches across everything Value-First publishes, not only this site.

The protocol is platform-agnostic and anyone may build an implementation. The canonical implementation maintained by the authoring firm is named on the site.

Authored and operated by the Value-First Team.

Disclosures

Status is v0.1 and in draft review; the specification is expected to change. No account is required to read any of it.