Multi-business offers and agent-assembled products
Let independent businesses create products none of them could offer alone while retaining control of terms, capacity, confirmation, fulfilment, and settlement.
The problem#
A bundle is easy to describe and hard to operate. A hotel, restaurant, guide, retailer, distributor, and customer may all have different systems, capacity, pricing, confirmation rules, and payment relationships. Human coordinators chase availability and reconcile spreadsheets because no shared object represents the whole promise.
Agents can generate ideas, but a proposal becomes business only when each participant can rely on the commitments.
The Blue pattern#
A standing Agreement defines the multi-business relationship: participants, accepted terms, order-creation authority, price allocation, termination, dispute, and provider roles.
An Offer describes the customer-facing composition. A customer purchase creates one Order with separate supplier confirmations. A PayNote governs customer payment and any conditional capture. Separate provider or supplier Orders can remain independent documents when their participants, lifecycle, retention, or access differ.
A distributor may be a participant with a provenance-linked revenue share. Capacity providers may publish slots that several Offers can use.
Why documents remain separate#
The Agreement is the standing framework. The Offer is what can be accepted. The Order is one customer occurrence. The PayNote is one payment process. A Mandate may let an agent assemble or create Orders but not change the framework or move funds outside the accepted conditions.
This separation prevents a successful customer sale from silently rewriting the standing relationship and lets existing Orders survive a participant's later termination from future offers.
Example: flowers and dinner#
Alice supplies a bouquet. Bob supplies dinner. An investor or distributor sells the combined experience. The customer sees one coherent package. Alice and Bob confirm their components. The PayNote permits capture only after both confirmations. Existing accepted Orders continue even if the framework stops creating new ones.
Economic value#
The most valuable products are not ordinary discounts. They use cross-business state to unlock demand, dead capacity, intent handoff, or trust. A shared object makes the incremental revenue attributable rather than anecdotal.
Agent role#
Agents can search for complementary capacity, propose combinations, create draft Offers, request approval, and generate Orders under a bounded process. Each business retains principal-only control over the terms it considers material.