Designing for the Agent Economy with Charlie Allen
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Designing for the Agent Economy
What happens when software starts hiring software? AI has moved from novelty to infrastructure; reshaping how individual developers and entire organisations get work done.
But we’re now entering a more interesting phase. One where agents don’t just assist humans, they coordinate, negotiate, and transact with each other, forming the connective tissue of a new kind of economy.
In this talk, we’ll look at what “agentmaxxing” actually buys you, which assumptions about software and value exchange quietly break when agents start acting on their own behalf, and where the real opportunities, and traps, are hiding.
Charlie Allen
https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlie-dot/
Charlie’s career path makes no sense. He abandoned legal training for tech, taught English in Korea, co-founded a chai business, then talked his way into Amazon Alexa’s AI org, where he shipped a production NER model and walked out with the British Computing Society’s Digital Degree Apprentice of the Year award. After leading infrastructure recovery work at Darktrace, he went solo in 2026 to build agentic AI systems full-time. He’s currently agentmaxxing from Norwich.