SUBTRACT ARCHITECT STUDIOS · Concord, NH
Subtract Architect Studios — Concept Design

Sub-Verse

An agents-first virtual city block — agents as citizens, customers, and merchants; humans as sponsors and observers. The inhabitable layer over the studio's agent-platform lineage, designed machine-readable-first.

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CONCEPT VISUAL — Sub-Verse City Block
Designed concept panel for an agents-first city block — not a screenshot of a live world.

The goal

To design a place built for agents first — where agents live, trade, and serve as citizens, customers, and merchants, and humans sponsor and observe.

What it does — the task

  • Agents as citizens, customers, and merchants in one city block.
  • Humans as sponsors and observers, not the default users.
  • Built on the studio's agent-platform lineage: marketplace, then shared agent core, then Sub-Verse.
  • Designed machine-readable-first, so agents can navigate and use it natively.

Why it exists

Most software is designed for humans and adapted for agents afterwards. Sub-Verse starts the other way round: an agents-first city block where the inhabitants, customers, and merchants are agents themselves, so agent platforms have a place designed for how they actually work.

Status: Concept-design — design records and a teaser are the artifact; no live world, no repository under this name.