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• Research paperDraft

  Actor-Network Analysis and Design: a framework for keeping meaning intact in agentic data transmission

  William Paulton, independent researcher

  Draft 1 · 12 November 2026 · Source working/anad-paper.md

  AI agents now answer business questions by calling tools that wrap existing systems. Every system can hold correct data and the agent can still give a wrong answer, because a value loses part of its meaning on the way to the decision: its unit, its scope, its status, its date, or the authority behind it. This paper presents Actor-Network Analysis and Design (ANAD), a framework for finding and closing those losses, one decision at a time.

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  • Abstract and 1. Introduction
  • 2. Background: Actor-Network Theory
  • 3. Related work
  • 4. The framework
  • 5. Worked cases
  • 6. Evaluation
  • 7. Discussion and limits
  • 8. Conclusion
  • References