Agentic Entrepreneur Support System (AESS) Practitioner Manifesto

Origin Story (2023-2026): After more than two years developing the Enterepreneur Connectome and an Agentic Entrepreneur Support System I have found great challenges in cultivation, largely due to resistance to technology. Through countless engagements, with both entrepreneurs and providers, I have learned that ecosystem stakeholders struggle to share judgement with AI and continue to resist the redesign of how authority flows in entrepreneur support. This position led me to consider the development of a Practitioner Maturity Model to accompany participation in the Agentic Network Architecture. The beginning of that model is a Practitioner Manifesto for practitioners and stewards of the Entrepreneur Connectome to promote “practice readiness”.

Delaration of Practice: Entrepreneurs and Resource Providers executing the Entrepreneur Connectome methodology and participating in the Agentic Entrepreneur Support System are being asked to be reliable co-agents in an agentic system.

Entrepreneur Connectome Practitioner Manifesto by Carlton L. Robinson, DBA:

As entrepreneur resource providers, we commit to treating AI as augmentation and to remaining accountable for outcomes produced through Entrepreneur Connectome–related activities.

The vertical integration of AI in entrepreneur support is intended to enable agency; in doing so, we accept responsibility as carriers of the social infrastructure that shapes how agency is exercised.

We commit to maintaining systems of provenance and contextual governance, and we refuse to automate judgment or obscure decision responsibility.

We commit to promoting Human-Centered AI (HAI) in entrepreneur support through continuous iterations of dialogue, empathy, and reasoning loops.

Through these practices and engagements, we contribute to a self-renewing system—one in which we evolve from resource providers into practitioners of agentic coordination in an AI-augmented world.

To practice within an Agentic Entrepreneur Support System is to accept responsibility for how intelligence, authority, and agency move through entrepreneurial systems.

The Innovator's Journey (InJ) Credo

The Innovator’s Journey (InJ) Credo by Carlton L. Robinson: Each innovator has a Call to Innovate that warrants an individually defined (InJ) Start to their journey. They Descend by searching for answers to innovation challenges. They begin to Ascend by gathering assets, testing, and/or collaborating to overcome those challenges. Ultimately, they move towards Unifying all that they have learned and experienced to manage a new state of entrepreneurial thinking. And they Return from the iteration as a hero. These activities are additive versus standalone.

Entrepreneurial resource providers make themselves available for support and engagement at each phase (Entrepreneurial Pivolution).

The Innovator's Journey (InJ) is a form future entrepreneurial logic. #InJ #FutureLogic. It is an adaptation of the Hero's Journey, new concepts, content, and Lean Startup logic that work to catalyze innovation along the Innovator's Journey (InJ). The driving force behind the concept is improving the innovator's experience and outcomes as they create, vet, build, measure, learn, & strategize.

Introducing the Innovator's Journey (InJ)

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On April 9th I introduced the Innovator's Journey to a group of entrepreneurs in Jacksonville, FL. My focus was to expose an innovation crisis and introduce a solution/treatment that could enhance entrepreneurial ecosystems worldwide. This modernization of entrepreneurial education of resource providers was researched and experienced over a ten year period. Leveraging use cases, it was an opportunity for our community and me to contribute to thought leadership that supports entrepreneurship. Most importantly, establishing a form of innovation accounting for innovators and entrepreneurial resource providers.

The Innovator's Journey (InJ) is an experiential approach to entrepreneurial education that transforms the small business mindset to an entrepreneurial one. A goal of this work is to enhance the innovator experience (InX) and outcomes. The crisis stems from a 60-year old problem: lack of innovation in supporting innovators. While innovators and the tools they use to communicate entrepreneurial intentions have rapidly advanced in the 21st century, many resource providers remain stuck in the 20th century with a business plan mentality of support.

The Innovator's Journey provides a form of future logic for those who want to enhance the innovator experience (InX). This methodology has over 1,000 use cases in Jacksonville, FL that helped to create the innovative & detailed interactions between an innovator and a resource provider. It is also a form of entrepreneurial management with Lean Startup elements that can be used in both startups and enterprises.

The foundation of the Innovator's Journey (InJ) is the Lean StartUp approach. It is critical that resource providers understand the four pillars of the approach before they can enhance the innovator's experience (InX). Throughout this approach I am imploring those that support innovators and entrepreneurs to grasp these concepts as a foundation of understanding innovation in the 21st century.

In an effort to accelerate innovation in startups and enterprises, in Jacksonville (FL) I have introduced the Innovator's Journey (InJ) methodology. The method is aimed at improving the aptitude of entrepreneurial resource providers. We have proven in Jacksonville (FL) that entrepreneurial resource providers (ERP) who are entrepreneurial enhance the success of today's innovator's. In 2018, Innovator's Journey Field Guide sessions are planned for Florida, Texas, and North Carolina.