A definition that's stood for thirty years — and how orqo meets all of it.
In 1995, Wooldridge and Jennings named the four properties a system must exhibit to be a true intelligent agent. Three decades on, they're still the accepted bar — the line between an agent and a chatbot with extra steps. Most "AI agents" clear two of the four. Here's the standard, and how orqo meets each.
Not a scorecard we grade ourselves on. The definitions are the textbook's; what matters is the concrete mechanism under each — and, below, where most platforms stop.
Autonomy. "Agents operate without direct human intervention and have control over their own actions and internal state." Each orqo agent runs its own loop — choosing its tools and deciding when it's done. You define the objective, not the procedure.
Social ability. "Agents interact with other agents and humans via some communication protocol." Agent-to-agent turns within a stage, side conversations for focused dialogue, a cross-stage data pipeline, and agent-to-human questions and approvals.
Reactivity. "Agents perceive their environment and respond to changes in a timely fashion." Agents perceive tool results, user input, prior-stage data, and system messages — adapting across turns instead of running a fixed script.
Pro-activeness. "Agents do not simply act in response to their environment; they take the initiative, exhibiting goal-directed behavior." Time-driven (scheduled workflows, a Chief of Staff that watches) and event-driven (webhook triggers) initiative — the system acts before you ask.
The marketMost platforms satisfy autonomy and reactivity to varying degrees. Few achieve genuine social ability beyond sequential handoffs. Almost none address pro-activeness at all.
The marketPro-activeness is the rarest of all: a system that takes the initiative — scheduled, monitoring, event-triggered — instead of waiting to be prompted.
orqoDesigned from the ground up to deliver all four.
ORQO is the loop itself: orchestrate agent teams, let them reason together, queue the work through structured stages, and optimize it over time. The name encodes the standard it was built to meet. Claim your slot
Wooldridge, M. and Jennings, N.R. (1995). "Intelligent Agents: Theory and Practice." The Knowledge Engineering Review, 10(2), pp. 115–152.