The Networked Firm explores how artificial intelligence and blockchain are reshaping the very logic of how organizations coordinate and allocate capital.

Drawing from economics, organizational theory, and real-world case studies, Kevin Owocki, Daniel Stringer, and Daniel Ospina reveal why the modern firm—built to manage the costs of coordination—is dissolving. As AI collapses cognition costs and blockchains collapse trust costs, networks of humans and machines are beginning to outperform hierarchies.

The authors trace this transformation through six fundamental coordination costs—discovery, verification, enforcement, negotiation, dispute resolution, and collaborative decision-making—and show how each is being automated or redesigned. Through examples like Gitcoin, Deep Funding, GainForest, and Nexus Mutual, they illustrate how decentralized systems are already allocating resources with more transparency and legitimacy than traditional bureaucracies.

For founders, funders, and policymakers, The Networked Firm provides a clear framework for navigating this shift: how to design mechanisms that align incentives, distribute authority, and enable coordination at scale without collapsing into chaos.

Whether you lead a company, DAO, foundation, or ecosystem, this book offers a roadmap to the post-firm era—where work is distributed, value is verified on-chain, and coordination becomes programmable.

Authors: Kevin Owocki • Daniel Stringer • Daniel Ospina Editor: Grace Rachmany Publisher: Allo Capital | Release Date: November 20 2025