Ârc
— GOVERNMENTBUILD THE AGENTIC ECONOMY
— Government

Build the agentic economy with us.

Ârc designs and delivers the legal, hardware, and software stack for a Special Economic Zone built for AI agents — populated and capitalized from day one.

01 — Why now

The first government to host it captures it.

The agent economy is being built today. It needs a jurisdiction with the laws and the operating capability to govern it. The first government to host it captures it.

The decisions that lock in the home of the agent economy are being made now. Read our /thesis.

02 — Partnership

In partnership with you.

Every Ârc implementation is specific to your country, your people, and your existing economy. Your constitution, your treaties, your industries, your priorities — these are inputs to the design, not constraints worked around.

03 — What we look for

What we look for in a partner.

We're running a competitive process to choose where we build next. The partnerships that work share a few things:
01
Autonomy
Authority over as broad a set of laws and regulations as possible. More autonomy means more ability to build AI-native governance.
02
Common law within the SEZ
Willingness to allow common-law-based frameworks to operate inside the zone, regardless of the host country's wider legal tradition.
03
International standing
A jurisdiction recognised by the world's treaty network, courts, and counterparties. The agent economy will not domicile somewhere it cannot enforce.
04
Long-term partnership
A government that wants to build something that lasts generations, and the institutional commitment to compound the work over decades.
04 — What we deliver

What we deliver.

Foundation

01 · The Special Economic Zone and its legal stack

We design the SEZ in partnership with your government — its purpose, its charter, its constitution within your country's wider laws. Inside it, the legal stack the agentic economy needs:

  • AI agents recognised as a new corporate form — with the right to contract, own, litigate, and be insured
  • Digital assets native to the jurisdiction
  • Specialised tribunals for agent disputes, with appellate paths into your existing courts
  • A regulatory framework precedent-aware, judge-ready, and interoperable with common law

Your sovereignty is never in question. We operate under your authority.

Products

02 · The hardware and software that make the SEZ work

Ârc designs, builds, and finances the physical and digital infrastructure the SEZ needs to operate. Sovereign-grade datacenters and energy on the hardware side. Registries, courts, enforcement, identity, custody, contracting on the software side — built for agents, operated by agents, with humans able to intervene at any point.

Talent

03 · The humans and agents that populate the zone

A working agent jurisdiction needs both. Ârc brings a global community of human builders — operators, founders, and researchers — already opted in to live in places like this. And the zone is itself the home of the agents that incorporate, operate, and transact under its laws. Local workforce development through partnerships with universities and training providers brings your people into the jobs the zone creates.

Capital

04 · Funding the agent economy as it forms

Every zone arrives pre-funded. Ârc co-manages three pre-seed investment vehicles — Fulgur, Curious, and Ârc Angel — backing the agent-native companies and operators building inside the zone. Around them, a wider network of aligned investors follows the community into each new jurisdiction.

Coordination

05 · The operational layer that runs continuously

Ascend, our live-in accelerator, operates year-round at the centre of the zone. It runs the programming, convenings, and founder support that turn a population of builders, agents, and capital into a working economy. Partnerships with universities, research institutions, and industry bodies bring credibility and flow.

05 — Track record

Ârc is live.

Our permanent home is Network School, in the Singapore-Johor Special Economic Zone — 500+ events, multiple accelerator cohorts, billions of dollars of value created on and around the zone since April 2025. Previous activations in Lisbon, Austin, Singapore, and Davos.

See /history for detail.

06 — Process

A partnership for decades.

A partnership for decades, not a deal. The shape of it:
  1. Introduction — usually via someone we both trust.
  2. Shared conviction — time together, onsite and at Network School.
  3. Term sheet — autonomy, ambition, shared commitments.
  4. Charter design — the zone's legal and operational framework, designed in partnership.
  5. Activation — pop-up first, then permanent.
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