Inspired by the original 12-Factor App and the excellent work on 12-Factor Agents .

Knowledge Capitalism is a framework for understanding how knowledge creates, compounds, and captures value in networked systems. This document outlines twelve foundational principles: the nature of knowledge as negative entropy, the mechanisms through which it is stored and transmitted, the three interfaces through which it operates (agency, intelligence, and network), the cognitive actors who wield it, and the economic systems through which it realizes value.

Together, these factors describe the emerging architecture of an economy where knowledge itself becomes the primary form of capital.