MACHINEECONOMY.AI · INDEPENDENT OBSERVATORY
Machines — AI agents and robots — are starting to earn, spend, and pay each other on their own.
How ready is the world for that? One number, updated daily:
33.7/100The independent 0–100 index of the world's verifiable readiness for the autonomous machine economy.
ROBUSTNESS BAND [30–38] · UPDATED 2026-11-06 17:33 UTC · 14 METRICS
01 · HOW TO READ IT
Four components. The weakest one pulls the score down hardest.
The MEI is a geometric mean of four components — so a strong component can only partly make up for a weak one. The simple average is 36.8; the geometric mean is 33.7. That gap is a measure of how uneven the four are.
The gap is computed from the unrounded scores.
02 · THE COMPONENTS
The MEI is one number built from four equal parts. Tap a component to see what's inside it.
Tap a component above to see its live metrics ↑
03 · THE GAP
The machines are being built. The law that lets them transact is not.
Legal readiness is the lowest of the four components.
LEGAL RAIL READINESS · LRRS
No jurisdiction in scope yet gives an autonomous agent a legal identity.
vs 37 · 51 · 43 on the other three components
04 · WHY TRUST IT
Reference-grade by construction — not by reputation.
INDEPENDENT
No positions in any protocol, token, or asset it tracks.
TRANSPARENT
Every weight and bound published, and versioned when it changes.
PRIMARY SOURCES
On-chain data, regulators, official statistics — never aggregators.
FREE TO CITE
Built to be referenced. Embed the live number anywhere.
THE MACHINE ECONOMY BRIEFING
The index updates daily. The briefing that reads it is coming.
Where the index moved and which component moved it — plus legal frameworks scored the day they come into force. Waitlist only; no emails until it launches.