We filed.
Five provisional patent applications on the coherence substrate, lodged with IP Australia, priority date secured 13 May 2026. And nine trade mark applications on the language that names it.
On 31 December 2025 we called it publicly: “2026 is the year coherence becomes advantage.” The field has since caught up.
The reason for filing now is simple: the language is forming faster than the substrate.
Look at who keeps circling the same gap. McKinsey’s The Agentic Organization named the operating-model layer. Its AI Assembly Line: Strategic Imperatives for CEOs (May 2026) systematised the deployment. BCG’s Enterprise as Code rewrote the operating model as executable, auditable instructions. Jakob Nielsen’s Forward Deployed Designers moved design’s centre of gravity to the enterprise control loop. Four publications across McKinsey, BCG and Nielsen. One pattern, and it is unmistakable: each names the layer. None has a coherence measurement substrate beneath it. They name the layer; Divergent Kind fills it.
That substrate is what we have been building, and as of 13 May, have filed provisional patent applications on.
Place it in the stack the field is converging on. Layer 1, foundation models. Layer 2, Agent execution: orchestration and tool-calling. Layer 3, Agent infrastructure: identity, memory, observability, the substrate that makes agents durable. Layer 4, Agent governance: the technical constraints on what agents may do. And Layer 5, the one almost no-one is building, organisational coherence. Whether the organisation the agents run inside is structurally coherent enough to hold. That layer is Coherence OS, measured by Qualitative Coherence Indicator™ (QCI).
Here is the move most will miss. Layer 5 absorbs two of McKinsey’s five pillars, the operating model, and workforce, people and culture, into one coherence substrate. Because the insight is that these are one layer, not two.
Coherence is not just a word. It needs a measurement engine, an ethical operating system, a cognitive-difference taxonomy, a configured infrastructure layer, and a way to measure whether the human inside the system gains clarity, agency, and coherent action, or just receives more noise.
That human is not a user in Divergent Kind language. They are a participant.
Two application domains. One coherence substrate. Every scale.
The longer pieces follow.
– Richard
Divergent Kind facilitates conditions for agency and coherence; we do not diagnose, treat, or cure.
Divergent Kind™, Divergent Kind Coherence OS™, Consciousness-Centred Design™, DK Certified Coherence™, Awareness Constellation™, Resonance Wayfinding™, Neuroarchitectonics™, Dynamic Transposition™ and Qualitative Coherence Indicator™ are trade marks of Divergent Kind Pty Ltd – nine applications filed at IP Australia, counted from the register of 30 May 2026. Provisional patents filed at IP Australia, priority date 13 May 2026. Proprietary internals are held under trade-secret discipline.
Correction, 13 June 2026. This page originally counted seven trade mark applications – the count at first drafting. The IP Australia register of 30 May 2026 records nine, listed above. Corrections on this site are dated; nothing rewrites quietly.
Provenance and citation. Coherence architecture, the Coherence Lens, Divergent Kind Coherence OS™ and the Qualitative Coherence Indicator™ are authored by Divergent Kind Pty Ltd (ABN 30 693 755 672). First publication dates are carried on this site. Provisional patent priority date: 13 May 2026. Trade mark applications: nine, counted from the IP Australia register of 30 May 2026.
Verified against the Australian Trade Mark Search, 13 June 2026 – application numbers: Divergent Kind 2643828 · Divergent Kind Coherence OS 2643861 (accepted, awaiting publication) · Consciousness-Centred Design 2643870 · DK Certified Coherence 2648236 · Awareness Constellation 2648237 · Resonance Wayfinding 2648238 · Neuroarchitectonics 2648239 · Dynamic Transposition 2648240 · Qualitative Coherence Indicator 2648241. Filed 23 and 28 April 2026; statuses as at the verification date.
Open: the Coherence Lens – the four public dimensions and their questions – is freely citable and freely usable as a frame, with attribution to Divergent Kind. Proprietary: the measurement engine, scoring logic, numeric scale, thresholds, weighting, taxonomies and adaptation logic are not published and are not licensed for commercial reuse without written agreement. Selling an assessment built on the Lens, reproducing the scoring system, or training a commercial diagnostic tool on Divergent Kind materials requires a licence.
Cite as: Divergent Kind, “[page title]”, divergentkind.com.au, 2026.