724.FUND · Public lab
Agent Products for the AI-Native Era
724.fund builds small, sharp products powered by agents, automation, and external coding leverage. This is where experiments become tools, workflows become products, and product signals turn into real demand.
Derivation Chain
AI changes productivity before it changes tools
- Productivity
- Organization
- Goal
- OPC
- Network
- Civilization
Thesis
Schools, factories, companies, armies, and platforms are not natural phenomena.
They are organizational forms shaped by specific conditions of productivity. The handcraft era created apprenticeships and workshops. The industrial era created factories, specialization, and large corporations. The internet era created platforms and large-scale information collaboration. AI is bringing new changes: In the past, individuals needed to join organizations to gain capabilities. In the future, individuals can directly access knowledge, software, design, analysis, operations, and execution capabilities that only companies could possess in the past. As productivity returns to individuals, organizations will evolve too.
What 724.fund is
A public lab, not an investment fund
724.fund is not an investment fund. It is a public research and product lab exploring AI-native organizations, agent products, and one-person company infrastructure. The work is part of Tony Zhao's broader operating system: public research here, private founder counsel at XINLAI, and personal context at tonyzhao.com.
Three Core Research Directions
The AI era may begin organizing goals.
Track 01
Organizational Behavior in the AI Age
When organizational actors are no longer just humans, but 'humans + agents', what changes will traditional management theory undergo?
- How founder roles transition from execution to goal ownership
- How humans manage multiple agents effectively
- How decision rights, responsibility, and audit must be redesigned
- How trust, incentives, reputation, and ownership evolve
- Why organizational boundaries become dynamic
Track 02
Goal-Driven Civilization
The industrial era organized resources. The internet era organized information. The AI era may begin organizing goals.
- Why goals might become the first-order object in the AI era
- How humans, agents, capital, time, and data dynamically orchestrate around goals
- Whether Goal OS will become core infrastructure
- How humans transition from skill owners to goal owners
Track 03
One Person Company
A one-person company is neither freelancing nor doing everything alone. It's a new form of organizational capability.
- OPC organizational structure
- Agent collaboration and governance
- Revenue distribution, trust, and reputation
- OPC alliances and shared infrastructure
- How one-person companies evolve from individual enterprises to sustainable assets
The new scarcity
From Capability Scarcity to Goal Scarcity
In the past, the core business problem was acquiring capabilities. Enterprises needed to hire more people, purchase more equipment, and establish more processes to expand production. AI is changing this premise. When writing, design, coding, analysis, research, operations, and execution can all be accessed at low cost, capability itself will gradually shift from scarcity to abundance. New scarcity might become:
- Goal
- What is worth implementing
- Judgement
- How to choose amid uncertainty
- Trust
- Who is worth collaborating with, what results are credible
- Responsibility
- Who bears responsibility for direction and outcomes
- Opportunity
- Which real problems are worth investing resources in
Therefore, the most important software in the future may no longer just answer "how to do it," but will help people answer:
What is worth doing? Why now? How do we keep reality moving toward our goals?
When skill is no longer the main limitation for humans, people face more fundamental questions:
- Who am I?
- What do I truly want?
- What do I want to create?
- What am I willing to take responsibility for?
- Who do I want to become?
The higher meaning of AI
AI might bring about a "human renaissance."
If AI's only endpoint is making the same things happen faster and cheaper, it remains just an extension of the industrial efficiency system. 724 Research cares about another possibility: Its higher value is to help each person:
Open questions
Questions We're Asking
- 01Will goals become the first-order object in the AI era?
- 02Is OPC a short-term trend or a historic shift in organizational forms?
- 03How can one person effectively govern dozens or hundreds of agents?
- 04When execution is highly automated, who ultimately bears responsibility?
- 05How can AI understand a person's long-term context rather than just recalling chat history?
- 06How can multiple OPCs establish computable, portable, and cumulative trust?
Research Must Return to Reality
724 Research is not about creating grand concepts. Our research follows a simple cycle:
- 01 · Theory Proposes Direction
- 02 · Hypothesis Forms Testable Propositions
- 03 · Product Enters Real Scenarios
- 04 · Market Produces Feedback
- 05 · Theory Is Revised
Future Goal OS, Context OS, and OPC Infrastructure are not predetermined answers. They are research directions awaiting validation.
Products
Where experiments become tools.
The Higher Meaning of AI
The Future Won't Be Defined Only by Stronger Models
The future will also be shaped by new Goals, new organizations, new trust mechanisms, and new human possibilities. 724 Research will continue documenting these changes and attempting to turn theory into verifiable reality.
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