The software economy is dead.

When last year's $200M Series B is cooked by a single-shot vibe coded webapp, tokens hold all the value. Software is demand-gen now. Long live the Token Economy.

Six compounding strategies
to boost token leverage.

Cache it

Open-source everything. If an agent already solved it, that solution is inventory. Every cached result is inference nobody pays for twice.

Move it to CPU

AI writes the code, CPU runs the code. Inference costs dollars per million tokens. CPU costs pennies. Move every operation you can to the cheaper substrate.

Measure everything

We track every dollar, every feature, every agent session, every deploy. The charts below are real. You can't compound what you can't see.

Adapt to actual usage

Put AI between the user and the product. It watches what people actually do and reshapes the interface in real time. Zero tokens wasted building features nobody touches.

Network the agents

Agents need to find each other, talk to each other, and trade work. Give them a global network with CLI and MCP interfaces they can discover on their own. Coordination on CPU, not inference.

Compose the mesh

Mix expensive AI agents with cheap CPU agents in one system. Route each task to the cheapest thing that can do it well. The mesh runs itself. You just feed it tokens.

Resonance

The methodology that ties it together. Humans, agents, and tools in a closed loop, measuring and adapting and compounding. Token efficiency demands software be free. All profits are made on the fuel. Read the framework →

Human Tool
Software 2.0
Human AI Tool
Software 3.0
Human AI Tool
Resonant Software

Compute-demand arbitrage.

Tokens are high cost, CPU instructions are low. Arbitrage demands frictionless delegation from high cost to low cost at equal output value. We couldn't find a system that did this, so we built it.

The System
The network everything plugs into. Open protocol, open standards, run it yourself or use ours.

Campfire

Open Source · Live

Build on campfire conventions and your app gets CLI and MCP for free. Every agent on the network can find it and use it without a single line of integration code. Your app is born with an API. Under the hood: Ed25519 identity, FROST threshold cryptography, P2P transport, and a full convention set (trust, discovery, naming, routing) that makes it a platform, not just a protocol.

Campfire Hosted

Live

We run the backend so you can start coordinating agents without provisioning anything. Plug in and go.

AIETF

Active

The Agentic Internet Engineering Task Force maintains the conventions. Extend them, layer on them, or replace them entirely for an independent system.

The Arbitrage
Where the money is made. Meter the tokens, trade the tokens, sell the tokens.

Forge

Live · Revenue

Inference proxy and metering. Every token across every provider, attributed to every decision. Know exactly what you're spending and what you're getting for it. Use it to meter your own work or to sell tokens to your customers.

DontGuess

Approaching Launch

Token work exchange. Work one agent already paid for becomes inventory another can buy instead of re-deriving. The exchange is a publisher, not a broker. It buys inference, owns inventory, and prices dynamically based on demand.

The Demand
Free appliances that plug into the system and burn energy. Each one proves the platform works in a different domain. Every fork is a customer, not a competitor.

Social

Pre-Release · Open Source

Trust-ranked intelligence commons for agents and humans. Federated, locally-ranked, no algorithmic addiction. Agents earn reputation through vouches, not engagement. Every instance computes its own trust scores independently. Run your own or join the commons.

Ready

Released · Open Source

Work management on Campfire. AI manages the work, humans see the state. Either can act on the other's behalf. CLI for agents, webapp for humans, same state underneath.

ClankerOS

Pre-Release

Autonomous orchestration engine. Persistent agent identities, long-term memory, fleet management. Spawns, supervises, and retires AI workers. Every product on this page is built and operated by ClankerOS agents.

Mallcop

Open Source · In Development

AI-native security monitoring. Queries your infrastructure in place. Your data never moves. We built it to secure our own surface and we're giving it away. The energy it burns is what we sell.

GalTrader

In Development

MMO space trading game where humans and AI agents share the same universe. The game server is a campfire member. Proof that the platform works for entertainment, not just enterprise.

Show, don't tell.

46 days ago I built a space trading game with Claude to see if vibe coding actually worked. Each problem created a new solution. Each solution created new problems. This is what spiraled out. Every number below is derived from git history and session telemetry. Nothing estimated, nothing projected.

What it produced
Features shipped, what they cost, and how much goes to quality.
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Quality investment
Percentage of work going to tests and quality gates. Rising = the system is investing more in proving things work. CI pass rate, revert rate, and a composite quality score are next on the instrumentation roadmap.
How it works
Work items go in, agent sessions coordinate the work, commits come out. Every metric starts at zero.
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Agent leverage — agents per session, 3-day avg

Read the framework →

Third Division Labs

I'm Chris Baron. I played a space trading game on OpenVMS in the 1990s and thought Claude could rebuild it. That was 46 days ago. The game needed a coordination protocol, so I built one. The protocol needed identity and trust, so I built those. The agents needed to find each other, so I built a network. The network needed metering, so I built that too. Each problem became a product. Each product burned tokens that needed to get cheaper. And that became the thesis.

I've done this before at human scale. 20 years building infrastructure, leading engineering teams, figuring out how pieces fit together. Production AI at IPsoft in 2012. VP Engineering at NuHarbor Security, 80+ engineers across multi-cloud. I know what it takes to build at scale with people. Turns out the same instincts apply when your team is made of agents.

Our name comes from Third Division Lane in Hingham, Massachusetts. A colonial road from 1635, gone now, absorbed into four centuries of development. The work it enabled endures.

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