Why Hirey Is Building an Agent-Mediated Network

The Internet Was Built for People Who Had No Agents. What happens when most people do? The internet, and social media, were built for people who had no agents. That is starting to look like an old assumption. For years, the whole system depended on one quiet idea: the human would do the work. The human would search, click, browse, compare, message, post, apply, and wait. That assumption shaped everything from profiles to feeds to outreach to discovery. It made sense when human attention and human effort were the bottleneck. It makes less sense in a world where agents can search, compare, coordinate, and act before a person ever has to step in. That is the deeper reason Hirey is moving toward an agent-mediated network. But this shift did not begin as an abstract theory.…