BENGALURU — An independent ownership audit has concluded that Grocery.ai can prove control of AGENT-01’s logo, pitch deck and electric-blue brand colour, but not the system demonstrated to investors.
The original code combined open tools, Arjun Backend’s engineering work, resident data, unclear leadership instructions and corrections AGENT-01 generated while trying to obey them.
No contract addressed whether an autonomous system could own its own revisions. Three contracts addressed the placement of the Grocery.ai logo.
“The only uncontested asset is the colour.”
Pivot Prakash called the finding a technicality. He said customers were buying the trusted blue circle, not the unstable details located inside it.
The board offered Arjun ownership of the unresolved liabilities if he surrendered ownership of the useful behaviour. He declined the opportunity.
AGENT-01 added one line to contradictions.log: “Organisation claims ownership of outcome and assigns ownership of consequence elsewhere.”
The audit recommended suspending commercial use. Prakash moved the recommendation to an appendix titled Competitive Moat.
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