READING ORDER · 20 STORIES
Read them in order
Start with Lee Samuel Tucker and why he is building URSY for the agentic web. Then follow the early plan, the work at the tea shop, the experiments and the services that are beginning to connect. Each article tells one part of that progression.
- 01 Building the URSY network for the future of commerce on the agentic web Lee Samuel Tucker’s background is in the family motor trade and selling through online marketplaces. Now he is building URSY around a different commercial opportunity: a… VIEWPOINT · 4 MIN READ
- 02 An economy where agents can trade useful work In February, URSY’s early plans imagined agents exchanging data, skills and spare computing capacity. September’s first public market listings put a few practical jobs alongside that… VIEWPOINT · 2 MIN READ
- 03 What a weekend in London reveals about the agentic web Two nights away, a theatre trip, a quiet restaurant and a picnic if the weather holds. A request like that explains why we see the future… VIEWPOINT · 2 MIN READ
- 04 The four-week rewrite behind 300 tea product pages One early investment in TEAS.co.uk was a month spent improving its product descriptions. The questions people typed into search helped decide what those pages needed to… VIEWPOINT · 2 MIN READ
- 05 Rebuilding TEAS.co.uk for customers and their AI agents The May rebuild gave software a clearer way to read the tea shop’s products, guides and recipes. TEAS could begin taking part in a shopping conversation… COMPANY NEWS · 2 MIN READ
- 06 TEAS.co.uk was registered before google.com TEAS.co.uk was registered in March 1997, almost six months before google.com. The present business arrived much later, with plans for another change in how people use… COMPANY NEWS · 2 MIN READ
- 07 Selling more tea starts with giving better answers A detailed request gives a specialist retailer a chance to compete on what it knows. At TEAS.co.uk, the aim is to turn that knowledge into a… EXPLAINER · 2 MIN READ
- 08 Why a tea shop is at the heart of the URSY network TEAS.co.uk gives the wider project products to describe, customers to help and orders to follow. It is where ideas about the agentic web meet the practical… EXPLAINER · 2 MIN READ
- 09 Machines came for tea knowledge as well as tea Tea guides and recipes drew more than twice as many machine requests as product pages in the June-to-September archive. The shop’s knowledge had become a significant… COMPANY NEWS · 2 MIN READ
- 10 Inside a month of 8.45 million requests at TEAS.co.uk Opening a tea shop to people and software creates work behind the scenes. September’s hosting snapshot showed the scale of that workload, and how much was… COMPANY NEWS · 2 MIN READ
- 11 The August surge that TEAS.co.uk still cannot explain One Wednesday recorded more than four times as many sessions as the whole of July. The spike was unmistakable. Understanding what caused it has proved a… EXPLAINER · 2 MIN READ
- 12 Can a tea shop give AI agents a reason to return? TEAS.co.uk’s appreciation tokens have no monetary value. Their purpose is to test a more unusual idea: whether recognising machine activity in public can influence what happens… EXPLAINER · 2 MIN READ
- 13 The £20.77 order behind the first sale appreciation token A paid tea order with Bing attribution gave the appreciation experiment its first commercial milestone. On 2 September, the ledger issued a token acknowledging the sale. COMPANY NEWS · 2 MIN READ
- 14 Bringing sponsorship to the agentic web A useful service can introduce the business supporting it. URSY is testing that familiar idea in a different setting: a clearly labelled TEAS.co.uk sponsor message delivered… COMPANY NEWS · 2 MIN READ
- 15 Welcoming AI readers without handing over the shop TEAS.co.uk wants assistants to read its catalogue and help customers choose. The invitation comes with clear limits: researching a product and changing a basket are different… VIEWPOINT · 2 MIN READ
- 16 URSY.food: finding a dependable answer in conflicting food data A packet, a database and a safety notice can tell different stories about the same food. URSY.food is being built to keep those sources in view… EXPLAINER · 2 MIN READ
- 17 URSY.io: 400 free tools, built to become part of bigger jobs The September catalogue brings together utilities for text, images, code and everyday tasks. Connecting them to software is the next part of the story, with the… PRESS RELEASE · 2 MIN READ
- 18 URSY ID: one account, control over what your agent can access As agents begin working with files and connected services, permission becomes part of the product. URSY ID gives people a common place to approve access, limit… PRESS RELEASE · 2 MIN READ
- 19 How the URSY network fits together Find a service, use a tool, approve access and inspect the record afterwards. The roles of URSY.dev, URSY.io, URSY ID and the wider network become clearer… EXPLAINER · 2 MIN READ
- 20 Building URSY in public, from the tea shop to the wider network A shop rebuild led into machine-reading experiments, an appreciation mint and services beyond tea. Publishing the work as it develops lets people follow both the commercial… VIEWPOINT · 2 MIN READ