Coordination and standards

Two suppliers each pick a format — a connector, a file spec, a schema. Agreement grows the market, the side that switches pays for it. The payoffs are built from the five numbers below and solved as a table.

Result

solving

Solving…

What each move is worth

What they are likely to do

Inputs

Extra market if you both land on one format

Your installed base on your format

Their installed base on theirs

Cost of moving off your own format

What a private format is worth alone

Precision

Per share point. Higher means the other side commits more decisively to its best move.

An arbitrary table

For any payoff tensor rather than this parameterisation, the bench takes one directly, and the Python library takes n-player tensors of any shape.