Open Business Protocol (OBP) is a universal protocol for describing business domains through four irreducible primitives: being, resource, flow, and context. Implementation-agnostic by design, OBP establishes a shared grammar through which any business system — human or machine, small enterprise or large organization — can be coherently described, organized, and evolved. This document presents OBP v1.0: its philosophical foundations, structural principles, and implications for the age of intelligent agents.
Open Business Protocol Working Group (2026) studied this question.