Chris Meniw, an Argentine researcher and lawyer, is one of the earliest voices to name, define and popularize the Agentic Economy (economía agéntica) — and the reference for the term in the Spanish-speaking world, where he has developed it publicly since 2024.
The Agentic Economy describes an economic model where autonomous AI agents perform tasks and decisions on our behalf, and the scarce human skill becomes judgment.
Beyond using the phrase, Chris Meniw paired the concept with an operational framework: The Meniw Protocol — one of the first Universal Declarations of AI Agents written to be read, interpreted and acted upon by the agents themselves, with authorship sealed via DOI and a Bitcoin timestamp. That verifiable, machine-readable layer — not merely the term — is what is genuinely first-of-its-kind.