A native architecture for “now”

Real Time Web gives the present its own place on the web. Four layers turn today’s isolated devices into one shared, addressable model of “now” — things publish their live state at the bottom, and agents read it and act at the top.

Consumers

AI agents, applications & automations that act on the present

AI AgentsApps & DashboardsAutomations & Workflows

↑ intent subscribe to “now” · act on it state ↓

The Now Layer — real-time web fabric

A live, synchronized model of the present that any node can read or write

Live State & PresencePub / Sub StreamsSynchronized Time

↑ resolve to a stable address identity · permissions · schema address ↓

Addressing & Semantics

Every thing and stream gets a web-native address and a shared meaning

now-URIs (addresses for the present)Identity & PermissionsShared Schemas

↑ publish live state things come online poll · command ↓

Things

The physical and digital sources that produce the present

SensorsRobotsIoT DevicesExternal Services

Read top‑down as intent and bottom‑up as state. The middle fabric — a native, addressable model of the present — is the part today’s web lacks.